Andre Agassi and His Fake Mohawk Mullet Toupée
Yesterday we learned that tennis legend Andre Agassi used crystal meth in the late 90’s, failed an ATP drug test, then lied to the ATP to avoid a tour suspension. This according to excerpts from his upcoming book, ‘Open: An Autobiography.’
Today, we are just as shocked to find out that Agassi was sporting a fake mohawk-mullet toupee during that same time period according to ESPN’s Rick Reilly.
Why would a son admit how much he feared his Iranian father — feared him and hated him since the age of 7? And why — why! — would a man admit he wore perhaps the world’s only Mohawk toupee?
Agassi bucked against tennis like a horse with a two-sizes-too-small bit. But he could not escape it. And so his life became a kind of lie, from his shoelace groundstrokes to perhaps the world’s only fake Mohawk, a hairpiece that once came apart in the shower before the French Open. The day was saved by bobby pins.
My oh my! The world as seen through my childhood has now been rocked off its axis. The ‘haired wonder’ was famous back in the day for his ‘Image is everything!’ commercials and obviously that was true for Andre (one of the only true things out of him back then).
Image is everything until two decades later you are exposed as the King of taped on mullets.
Who am I kidding? Is it really a surprise that a down on his luck, mullet man, from Las Vegas was doing crystal meth in 1997? The more we learn, the more it all makes perfect sense.
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