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Dustin Poirier

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“In the recent times, I was like the Boiling point on Father's Day. But there's been days, yeah, there's been days where I've not expressed to my wife how I'm feeling and I was feeling down or...”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Even though I have those days where I want to fight and think I made the right decision, my mental health has been pretty even, you know, up until recently. I haven't been worried about myself or having to. Go to my journal and sit in the morning and have coffee like I've been doing this last week, you know, but when I do start feeling 100% normal, okay again, I need to continue to do those things, you know? I can't, I can't. Stop because I feel good. It's a constant. Something's going on with my brain. Like I have to These things every day. And now being removed from the incident, removed from my three years ago when I felt really bad and I was in the dark place I'm realizing that. It's not a Eureka moment where you're fixed. This is everyday work for the rest of your life, most likely. I'm pretty sure.”
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“And then I'll wake up the next day, and I'm like, good thing I don't have to fight these guys anymore. In the next day, it's like, I can be the world champion. It's just up and down every day.”
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“Ups and downs and ups and downs. Yeah. Big time. Some days I wake up and I feel like I made the right decision. I need to be home, I need to be doing things around the house. I need to be here every day with my kids making them breakfast. And then some days I wake up and I'm like, what the fuck am I doing? I can beat all these guys still. You know, I can still beat these guys. But I don't know if that ever leaves. I might be 60 year old having coffee one day saying the same thing. I could beat these guys. I don't know if that's just a competitive spirit. I don't know if that's just fighting your whole life. I don't know. But these top guys that are winning now and fighting now on these upcoming cards, I can beat them still. I know I can”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't want to blame anything or have a crutch to lean on about my actions, about what happened. You know, I did it. I'm not blaming it on mental health or anything like that, even though I'm focusing on that now. Did that, I decided to drink that day when I wasn't feeling well. It's all on me”
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“My buddy Kyle said the guy who I work out with every day I'm talking about, he told me that John Jones came out and said something and it was positive. He said Matt Brown as well, a former fighter, did a video. He said it was really nice and stuff. And I'm sure I'll see some of that stuff. I don't want to relive the moment that much. I don't want to keep diving back. But when I do get back on social media or do start watching videos and stuff again, I'm sure I'm going to see some of it And I appreciate everybody, but. It feels weird to. I'm not looking for that, for sympathy or to make this okay. It's not okay.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What do I do? What do you want to do? Dude, I kind of got for a week or so, I would say depressed, but I kind of got into like a funk, like, what the hell am I going to do with my life? Every day I would wake up for the last 20 years. How can I be better fighter? What's new in fitness? How can I push myself? I want to be the champion and then boom, you lay the gloves down and you wake up and you're a fucking civilian.”
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“Fighting was always for me always pulled everything together. That's why retiring Days are long I have a lot of time. I don't have to get ready for a fight.”
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“Show what I was talking about, it's like a gift and a curse, man. It's like you have to be all in at something. Those kind of people who are built like that, whether it's fighting or drinking or whether it's good or bad, you're going all in. It's dangerous.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I still feel horrible, but it. And not even using fighting or head trauma or my homeless father or any of that stuff as an excuse. I just want to say that I did these things. I know better. I know right and wrong. I don't want to lean on these as a crutch of my actions. You know what I mean?”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Obviously, I did the interviews or whatever you're talking about, so I said it. So I'm sure if you showed it, I would remember, but I haven't seen what people are talking about.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's going to shake back, or he's going to turn this into a positive somehow. And that's my goal. I don't want to let anybody else out there down. I'm trying my best. I have to take care of myself first and I'm doing that the right steps. And that's just it. I think the people who are standing up for me. Watching me grow up”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you know, I think a lot of that probably is longtime fight fans and people who've been following my career a long time. You know, I grew up in fighting. So people got to watch me from a kid, you know. Grow up so they know my character for the most part. It was a bad day. It wasn't, you know, it's not a bad life. I messed up. I had a really bad day where I was angry at the world and obviously alcohol doesn't help that. Really messed up, but people have seen me year after year, and I mean well, and I really mean it, and I think they know it's authentic. But I am just a human being. I make mistakes. So I think those fans, if people are sticking up for me, it's because they know it's dusting.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've never bit my tongue. I've always been open, you know, about what I'm going through. When I was able to pinpoint and talk about what I was going through and I didn't know what I was going to do. I couldn't speak on it. But as I got older and started doing therapy, I was able to speak on it. Yeah, I am going through things at some days, you know?”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The police officer called her. When I was in a holding cell and stuff. So, yeah She knew what was going on. She didn't know in the moment if she probably knew a couple hours after, you know, once they booked me and all that.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. That's them. You mean to let them down, let myself down. But, like I said I'm going to learn from this and continue pushing forward, and it will never happen again Going to affect the trajectory of my whole life, this one arrest. My son and my daughter are never going to grow up and see me intoxicated. They're never going to see me say things or do things I don't mean to do or mean to say, you know, so like I said, it sucks, man. It's bad. Going to benefit me and my family in the long run. So it's just something that had to happen, I guess.”
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“And I honestly don't think I would have made it to the point I made it to in fighting if I didn't have an anchor like that at home, you kn Should be my best friend for a long time. Yeah, so to go home after getting arrested and speaking to her and like. Not only did I let myself down, but have a family, you know. I have kids. I let my family down, man. That's what hurts.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Me telling her it'll never happen again. Her telling me it can't happen again, you know. Yeah Telling her that I'm going to focus on myself and be better from this. I know it sucks right now in the moment, but. This decision, this arrest, this Quit drinking for the rest of my life. Going to benefit me and my kids in the future. So things happen, you learn. And that's just what it is, you know.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. It went fun for sure, you know, to let her down and It's just been so long since I don't even know how Address it really when I got home. I haven't been in trouble, haven't been arrested in so long, you know, decades and decades. I don't know. I don't even know when's the last time I got arrested. This is the first time in a very long time. But to go back My partner who's been with me through everything and has grown with me through everything to go back and like. See her face to face. Just keep apologizing and it'll never happen again.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. And Looking back at it now With what they're telling me and the way he handled it, he did a great job I need to thank him because, like I said, it could have been so much worse. What if it was a young hothead cop who wanted to be a superstore, wanted to, you know, it could have been horrible. You know, I could be sitting here facing serious charges Just to put my wife and my children through that, you know, just. Not”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's what I told him. I was like, maybe I. Realize what was going on, you know. Maybe I had an aha moment. Like, what the hell is, what am I doing? And that drunken stupor. I don't know.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so I didn't watch the video at all. Every day passing I'd be able to piece a little bit more together and memories kind of, you know, flashes of what happened are kind of playing in my head. But I got home, deleted all my social media. I posted that on Instagram. Then I uninstalled all social media off my phone. So I haven't since or the day after Father's Day, I haven't been on anything. I know they're making fun. I know they're talking about me. Obviously, I've been in the light with being a professional athlete for a long time. I know how this goes. So I just uninstalled all my stuff. So I haven't seen any of the clips, any of the videos, anything, you know, besides what my wife and my buddy are telling me.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To see myself in that condition disrespecting police officers disrespecting workers at the airport, disrespecting myself, disrespect my family. I just don't feel like it's going to benefit me to see that. If anything, I think it's going to bring me down. I'm going to keep thinking about it. Like I said, for the most part, understand what happened, know what happened. I don't need a seat again.”
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“Want to see it even when my wife started playing it and I heard it, she went watching the other room. And then I have a buddy I work out with five days a week. Between him and my wife, I've put the pieces together and pretty much know the extent of what happened.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, so my wife watched it. A buddy of my wife, I've kind of pieced it together at this point. I don't want to see it, man. You don't want to see it. I don't want to see it.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I never got on the plane. I don't believe. I'm pretty sure. ninety percent sure I never got on the plane and it might have been that the desk agent might have saw I was intoxicated and it's like no you can't get on this plane and that's might have what started I don't know but I do want to apologize to those desk agents whoever they are and the police for having to put up with me man they did it I actually Ask a lawyer in Atlanta who I've been working with. If he can, please give me that officer's information, his address, if I could write him a letter, his cell phone, if I can call him, just to tell him how great of a job he did, you know, dealing with a person in that condition and how professional he was. You know, he's incredible. It could have been so much worse. It could have been so much worse. I just want to thank him”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On my flight from Lafayette, Louisiana, I drank two champagnes, nothing crazy, you know, just. Landed in Atlanta had a little bit of a layover. Went to a bar, restaurant bar Started drinking champ Some guys came in, took some shots, one thing led to another. Go to my gate, get into it with the desk agent, they call security, call the police.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm going to South Florida. Was actually a three leg trip. I was supposed to go to South Florida for a day and That afternoon fly out, go to LA, my A commercial for three days from LA, Vegas, New York. Work for CBS The weeke And then fly home”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With socializing and things like that, it's tougher to be the sober one. But in everyday life, it's not hard Me, you know, I've never been an alcoholic, I just have a bad relationship if I do drink. So cutting it al completely is, you know, not a big deal.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Stopping to go home. And I envy them. You know, I have my wife is like that One of my good buddies is like that. They can have two drinks and be done. If I drink, we're drinking till the bottle's gone. No matter how many times in my life I've said it's going to be different this time. It's going to be, you know, I'm only going to have two, it's never, never worked out. So coming back home, talking to my wife and stuff. I'm going to cut alcohol completely out of my life. You know, I made that decision. I'm not going to be like my father or make another mistake like I made in the airport. It's just. Not helping me in any way. It might be a quick release and a quick hit of dopamine, but it's not benefiting me in any way. So I got to cut it out, cut it out for my life.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Their voice to shut up, and I just drank and did what I wanted to do, you know, but I know better. As I got older, it's gotten better, you know, but until recently.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So then it kind of started slipping back in. And even when I was fighting, you know, celebrations, gatherings, I would drink. I would drink, but it wasn't a weekly. It wasn't a weekly or daily thing. But I've always had a bad relationship with alcohol. Like I've always had. 90% of the times, if I do drink, I'm going to drink to be the best at drinking. I'm going to drink more than everybody. That's danger. It can benefit you in other things that drive and that craziness. You know, you can focus it on something and it'll benefit you or it can hurt you. And that's the way I've always been. So as learning myself over the years, I know to be careful with alcohol and going through mental things like I know, especially when I'm feeling the way I felt that day to not touch it, but I just.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I was younger, probably every weekend. As I became an adult and focused on fighting, I went years without drinking. And then even now, for when I retired, it slowly became more and more and more because I didn't not have, you know, when I was in training camp, I wasn't getting drunk and drinking like that. I had to wake up the next day and run miles and be at the gym and make a wait and I was really focused. But when I retired, I didn't have to anymore.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm still making a lot of right decisions, you know what I mean? I'm not that. It just sucks to be at this point where I always saw those guys getting arrested and doing stuff. And I was like, man, what an idiot. What an idiot, you know, but I wasn't going through it then. I didn't understand it.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, and that's what I was always when I would see it happen, I knew I was like, I'm never gonna be that, you know? I'm never gonna be the guy that goes and gets arrested or gets hooked on drugs or blows all of his money and just, you know, you see it over and over and not just in fighting and professional sports, you know. Like you've done something so long your whole life, so intense and so, you know, takes all of you when it's gone. It's like, what else can I do to the maximum? What else dopamine hit can I get? What can I just pour myself into and go crazy on something? You know, then a lot of times it's bad things, dangerous things. You know, you see a time and time again. And I always said, I'll never be that guy. And I'm not. You know, I ran into some trouble the other week, but.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it was an outlet. It was something to focus on. It was something to try to be the best at. It consumed me, man. It consumed me. Fighting was my entire life. And now post-fighting, it's like separating myself from The fighters, I'm trying to figure it out still. You know, a buddy of mine told me the other day, a wise man told him, if you're lucky, you die twice. If a man's lucky gets to die twice. And that's kind of what I'm going through right now. Now that makes sense to me. That part of me, that everyday wake up, push yourself to be the best fighter you can be is dead. You know, I'm retired, Dustin now. I'm businessman, Dustin. I was a father before when I was still fighting, but I have other things, other hats to wear, you know, it's just I'm trying to figure it out. Trying to figure it all out.”
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“Not being on the mats, preparing to fight someone for your life and your family's well-being in front of the world. If I'm just training just to spin my wheels, I've done this my whole life training. Still fun to have fun. We do whatever train, but it's not that it doesn't feel the same to me anymore.”
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“It was always there for me, always there for me. You know, no matter what was going on, I could go to the gym and drowned out any noise in my brain, any quiet that voice in your head And I was scared to not have that anymore. And I still have it. I can still go to the gym every day if I want, but it's not the same. It doesn't feel the same.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the gym was a part of therapy for me. Fighting was a part of therapy for me. And always was scared of that. What am I going to do to... Sabotage myself when I retire from fighting because I don't have this outlet anymore. You know, I've done it for 20 years of fighting. I always had somewhere to go. I always had to get better at the gym, to work on fighting, to focus on something. Every day I could get up and push myself to try to be better, to answer a new question, to do anything with fighting, to get better. Multiple levels, whether it's the techniques or whether it's my physical fitness, anything, there was always something to work on, always. And when I retired, I was kind of worried about that. Like, how will life look post fighting, you know? I was scared of it. I was scared of it.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And even at the beginning, when I first started doing interviews like Ariel Hawani and stuff, and I would bring it up, like I'm working on myself, I'm going to therapy. It felt weak in the moment. Like, who am I? I'm going through therapy. I'm telling the world I'm going to therapy. But then I look at it hindsight, I'm like, you know what? That's strength. Especially in a tough guy sport. We're fighting and bleeding and beating each other up, beating the best guys up in the world, fighting the best guys in the world. And I need to go to therapy to unpack some stuff. It just, it's crazy. The human mind is incredible.”
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“Yeah, for sure. And then you don't even think about them at all throughout your whole life. And then you sit down with somebody and start opening things up and talking about things. You say, well, maybe I could be linked to different things and I could be carrying stuff that isn't mine to carry and things like that. You know, as I'm growing up and being more mature and talking and speaking to people with professionals and stuff, I'm starting to unpack some of that.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, right, right. But deep down, I'm still carrying things I think from my childhood and everybody, you know, I've learned a lot through therapy. Everybody deals with different emotions and process things differently. I'm still going through it. You know, I'm back in therapy now.”
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“Yeah, that may be some of the childhood stuff I'm still carrying around. I don't think about it. You know, it's not like the first, you know, but”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, right before I went and tried to help my father, I went through a therapy session. So I had kind of closed the door on therapy when I started feeling good again. But then I'm starting to realize it's not something that you just fix. It's something you have to work on always. And that's what I'm trying to do. For the last week, I've been waking up early, reading some stuff, writing, doing something hard in the morning, just trying to do everything that I was doing that made me feel better. Three years ago. I'm trying my best, man.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My second fight with Justin Gaechey. Lost thou and came back home, everything was good. And then it would just, I was really emotional, man. You know, some days I would be fine, some days I would be sad. And I was like, something's off, you know, something's off. So that's when I started going to therapy and trying to unpack some of the stuff that... I didn't even know I was walking around with, you know.”
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“I don't, but my wife, you know, me and my wife have been together a long time since we were in off and on through middle school and high school and all that. But she tells me, don't you. She tells me, don't you remember, I've always thought something, you know, you never wanted to be around big crowds, go to all the parties with me when I was younger and do all that stuff. Yeah, because I just didn't. To be around that many people that much, you know, maybe it was anxiety I was dealing with. I don't know. This stuff is all new to me. So I'm just, I would tell her how I feel. And she's like, don't you remember? So she thinks I've been having it. But I started noticing it, you know, more recently. In the last years, three, four years.”
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“You know, I've had bouts with depression throughout my career when it hits me, you know, it hits me hard. And that day it hit me. It hit me hard, man. Going to the airport. It just feels like everything has its own gravity and it's going to pull me towards the negative no matter what it is. It's like a cloud in my head that I just can't get out from under. It's hard to explain to you unless you've been through it. That's what I try to tell my wife because she's always so happy and so, you know, which is a great but like when I feel like that and it doesn't happen often, but man, when it hits me, it's bad, you know, it's bad.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wish I knew more so I could tell you. Like a hard worker his whole life, you know, did whatever, worked in the oil field for a long time. But check to check his whole life. Simple guy, you know, was a really good athlete in school. Got a woman pregnant at a young age in high school, so he couldn't continue to focus and chase his dreams of playing football. You know, back then when you got a girl pregnant, you got married and got a job and things like that. So that's what he did.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, he's always It's tough. And I'm not angry at him. And once again, this isn't an excuse for my actions. You know, my father just came to a head on Father's Day. But just. Upset to see him doing this to himself and not getting out of his own way and continuing to let it get just worse and worse progressively over the years when he knows better, you know? He knows better. I mean, most people You make a mistake, or do you try to fix it? You try to make tomorrow better than yesterday, next year better than this year. Everybody just keeps doing the same thing. And that's because he's addicted to alcohol.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I actually met when I got out of jail in Atlanta and flew back home on that Tuesday. I got back late maybe Tuesday. Wednesday morning, I drove to where He lives or where he sleeps and went to the sheriff's office, got in contact with the coroner, had to do a whole process to sign a OPC order of protective custody. I tried to get him to pick him up against his will and all this stuff. And they did. But I went at the wrong time and I went early in the morning when I woke up. And when they picked him up, he wasn't. Disoriented, he was normal, you know? And so they released him again.”
2026-07-06 · The Diary of a CEO · UFC Legend Dustin Poirier: I Lost My Mind. I’ll Never Let It Happen Again. · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT