Retired Titans running back and USC star LenDale White opens up about ‘widow-maker’ heart attack

Retired Tennessee Titans running back and USC standout LenDale White opens up about the heart attack he suffered at age 34 in 2019, referring to the ordeal as the “widow maker.”

‘My [left anterior descending artery] it was clogged, and I had to inject myself twice into my heart to get my blood flowing again,” he told the ‘I Am Athlete’ podcast. “It’s called a ‘widow maker’ because you’re really not supposed to recover from it.”

Now 38, White has a renewed interest in healthy living after years of poor fitness and, as he told the Los Angeles Times in 2017, struggles with Vicodin addiction, depression, and about 20 or 30 concussions. not diagnosed.

“I’ve been so scared,” he said on the podcast, hosted by retired NFL receiver Brandon Marshall and White’s former Titans teammate Pacman Jones. “When you’re 34 and you have a heart attack, that should change your life forever. The physique has to change. I definitely work out every day now, and I hate working out.

‘I gave the dogs 1,000 yards and I was smoking kush [marijuana] every day and never exercised, squatting, nothing. Going in there and saying, ‘I have to squat now for fun,’ is not, you know. But shit, when you want to save your life, yeah, I’m squatting all day.

Retired Tennessee Titans running back and USC standout LenDale White opens up about the heart attack he suffered at age 34 in 2019, referring to the ordeal as the “widow maker.” ‘My [left anterior descending artery] it was clogged, and I had to inject myself twice into my heart to get my blood flowing again,” he told the ‘I Am Athlete’ podcast.

Along with Heisman winners Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart at USC, White would become a star for the Trojans, rushing for more than 1,000 yards in 2004 and 2005 while earning All-American honors.

Along with Heisman winners Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart at USC, White would become a star for the Trojans, rushing for more than 1,000 yards in 2004 and 2005 while earning All-American honors.

USC fell to Texas in the 2006 Rose Bowl at the end of the 2005 season, and then its 2004 national title was vacated due to NCAA violations.

White would turn professional after the famous loss to the Longhorns in the Rose Bowl, but his NFL career was plagued by weight problems and injuries. Although he was listed at 235 pounds, it is believed that he sometimes weighed much more.

He would drop to 229 for the 2009 season after admitting to cutting tequila out of his diet, but White lost carries as speedster Chris Johnson became one of the top running backs in the NFL.

White would be traded to the Seattle Seahawks in 2010, when he reunited with his former USC head coach Pete Carroll, but reportedly failed a drug test soon after and was released before the season.

He then signed a two-year contract with the Broncos, but the Denver native tore his Achilles tendon and was later released.

White would turn professional after the famous loss to the Longhorns in the Rose Bowl, but his NFL career was plagued by weight problems and injuries. Although he was listed at 235 pounds, it is believed that he sometimes weighed much more.