Denver Broncos' Peyton Manning is reportedly furious about recent allegations that he had used performance-enhancing drugs.
An Al Jazeera expose Sunday alleged that the quarterback had taken human growth hormone (HGH). The report was done undercover by a British athlete, Liam Collins.
Manning's wife, as reported by a pharmacist, was supplied with the said drug in 2011 to treat the football player's neck injury following four surgeries to correct it.
"Collins made secret recordings of Charles Sly, a former intern at the Guyer Institute, where Manning was treated in 2011 following four neck surgeries," Mashable noted. "Sly has recanted the claim that Manning used HGH."
The pharmacist in question later emphasized that the revelations sourced from him are "absolutely false and incorrect." He allegedly fabricated the information to test Collin's legitimacy.
Manning has since vehemently denied the reports. He also expressed that he was "sick" that his wife was even dragged into the controversy.
"What hurts me the most about this, whoever this guy is, this slapstick trying to insinuate that in 2011, when more than less I had a broken neck -- I had four neck surgeries. ... It stings me whoever this guy is to insinuate that I cut corners, I broke NFL rules in order to get healthy. It's a joke. It's a freaking joke," Manning told ESPN.
However, the quarterback did admit that he went to Guyer Institute in 2011 to use its hyperbaric chamber, which was recommended treatment for him.
"I think I rotated between being angry, furious," he went on. "Disgusted is really how I feel, sickened by it. I'm trying to understand how someone can make something up about somebody, admit that he made it up and yet somehow it gets published in a story. I don't understand that. Maybe you can explain it or somebody else can."
"It's completely fabricated, complete trash, garbage -- there's more adjectives I'd like to be able to use. It really makes me sick," he added.
He also went on to explain that whatever treatments his wife got was "her business" and that he never used anything she has taken.
Further, the Broncos quarterback expressed that he was so angry he'd "probably" sue the source of the allegations, NBC Sports said.
"Before anyone gives Manning advice on how to proceed, someone needs to explain to him the potential consequences of suing," the news source suggested.
Should Manning sue or should he let the allegations die a natural death?
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