Overview

• The autobiography, Hjärtslag (Heartbeats), was published on September 18 and includes his first public admission of addiction along with expressions of deep shame.
• He describes first using cocaine at New York’s Studio 54 in the early 1980s and says his dependence worsened in early-1990s Milan during his marriage to Loredana Bertè.
• He recounts collapsing during withdrawal in the Netherlands in 1996 and waking in a hospital with his father by his side.
• He confirms a prostate cancer diagnosis from September 2023 and says he will undergo check-ups every six months.
• He says he exercises daily but has not played tennis for six years, and he questions Jannik Sinner’s rehiring of trainer Umberto Ferrara after a positive steroid test and three-month suspension.