Overview

• The 69-year-old discloses the disease was at its most advanced stage and describes the diagnosis as psychologically difficult.
• Heartbeats, a 292-page autobiography co-written with his wife, is set for U.S. release on September 23 by Diversion Books.
• Borg details decades of substance use and hospitalizations, recounting a 1990s overdose in the Netherlands and clarifying a 1989 incident in Milan was accidental.
• He writes that his drug use began in 1982 and says his first experience with cocaine produced a rush comparable to tennis.
• Borg explains he stepped away from elite tennis at 25 after losses to John McEnroe left him without motivation, a decision he links to later struggles.