ANDRE Agassi admits he was worried sick his now infamous hairpiece would fall off halfway through a tennis match.
The tennis champ revealed his fears during an interview with Katie Couric for tonight’s 60 Minutes.
“It scared the heck out of me,” he said. “I kept envisioning what this would be like if my hair just flew off and landed. Like, what would I do? Would I go over and kill it, or would I — would I quickly put it back on?”
After they stop laughing, Couric asks, “Would you pet it?”
Agassi repliesd, “Would I take it home and name it? . . . I didn’t know what I was gonna do. I didn’t have a plan for what I was gonna do, which is why I was trying to move less and less.”
In his new autobiography, the 39-year-old revealed that he got high on crystal meth while playing the circuit in 1997 — and then lied about it to officials after testing positive for drugs.
“Slim [his assistant] is stressed, too . . . He says, You want to get high with me? On what? Gack. What the hell’s gack? Crystal meth,” Agassi writes in Open: An Autobiography. “Why do they call it gack? Because that’s the sound you make when you’re high . . . Make you feel like Superman, dude.
“As if they’re coming out of someone else’s mouth, I hear these words: You know what? F- – - it. Yeah. Let’s get high.
“Slim dumps a small pile of powder on the coffee table. He cuts it, snorts it. He cuts it again. I snort some. I ease back on the couch and consider the Rubicon I’ve just crossed.
“There is a moment of regret, followed by vast sadness. Then comes a tidal wave of euphoria that sweeps away every negative thought in my head. I’ve never felt so alive, so hopeful — and I’ve never felt such energy.
“I’m seized by a desperate desire to clean. I go tearing around my house, cleaning it from top to bottom. I dust the furniture. I scour the tub. I make the beds.”
Later, Agassi is told by the Association of Tennis Professionals that he failed a drug exam.
“My name, my career, everything is now on the line,” he writes.
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