Jonathan Grella

Andre Agassi says he used crystal meth, lied after a failed drug test, and prayed for his wig to stay on in a Grand Slam final. "I've never prayed for result in my life, but I prayed that day for that wig to stay on." He says he used crystal meth in the late 1990s. After he failed a drug test, he says, he wrote the ATP a letter "filled with lies, because I was ashamed." The test was thrown out. The wig came earlier, at the 1990 French Open final. The night before, he says, he used the wrong conditioner and the hairpiece started to come off. "I had about 50 bobby pins holding it down." He asked his brother if it would stay: "I think it will, just don't move around so much." Agassi lost that final. Years later, he said: "I've hated tennis since I was a boy, because it was never my choice to play it." Andre Agassi says he used meth, lied to the ATP, and still prayed only for his wig to stay on.