Friendless and Nearly Broke, Terrell Owens Says ‘I’m in Hell’

I wish someone would give me 80 million. I certainly wouldn’t be broke. Friendless maybe.

How does someone burn thru $80 million dollars that quickly and have absolutely nothing to show for it? I can’t even fathom that kind of income. I have to agree with the others, I don’t feel badly for him. I don’t recall him acting humble when he had the cash.

Let’s see a $499,000 home in LA; a multimillion dollar home in Atlanta; and a $3.9 million home in NJ…and he doesn’t think that’s lavish???? Keep your zipper zipped and you won’t have to worry about paying a ridiculous amount of child support to multiple women. Grow up and take responsibility for the situation you’re in…stupid is as stupid does.

$40,000 a year is absurd for child support – $40,000 per month is absurd.

That’s a broken system. However, his belief that he doesn’t have a lavish lifestyle is wrong -those multiple mansions are symptomatic of someone living a lavish lifestyle.

It would have been better to take your money and place it in a bank. The temptation to get into businesses – when you know nothing about them, should be avoided. He didn’t even know the business was illegal in the state and that the NFL prohibited the investment?

Well – besides the NFL and the law telling you not to do it, what more warning could have been given? Someone walking behind you and slapping you around?

Come on. Plus don’t have 4 children with 4 different women. I won’t defend the system, the system is absurd, but you probably knew about the system after the first child….again, get a grip dude.

Poor lil’ fella!

A fool and his money soon part company

Typical situation with many athletes. I don’t feel sorry for him. Shoulda had a back-up plan.

$80 million, and he tried to invest it ?– to make more? He could have put that amount in a bank’s passbook savings account and lived lavishly off of the modest interest.

T.O. has a nice torso and a six-pack abs. He won’t have a problem finding another woman.

@ NoFlyZone2 | January 20, 2012, 3:02 pm 3:02 pm

Not only women, but men also. I would T.O. on the 50 yard line!

Jay, let me say first that I’m so sorry for what you’re going through and I pray that your quality of life gets better. Meanwhile, enjoy your son in any way that you can because children are a blessing. But don’t discount the pain of others. What appears to be a molehill to you can be another person’s Mount Everest.

I’ve heard it said before that T.O. was an ####. I know T.O. from his show only (not a big football fan) and he appeared so kind-hearted and was a very sympathetic figure. Even if it was true about him at the height of his success, anyone who has fallen that far (arrogant success to failed depression) gets my heartstrings to working. Call me a soft-y.

TO – what goes around, comes around and you have now learned that the hard way! You treated people like crap your WHOLE career and now you don’t have any friends????? No one cares buddy.

I feel so sorry for this guy. If only he had a charity set up so we could maintain him in the lifestyle he is accustomed to…

Okay TO, when I say hike, you go down and out….Oops, sorry, you’re already there.

Mr. Owen’s chickens are coming home to roost. He was such a jerk when he was here in San Francisco; his ego overshadowed his talent. Too bad. He could have learned how to be an NFL star and class act from Jerry Rice.

Having DNA paternity testing available has really made a difference in the number of fathers running off and leaving the mother to fend alone. Good .

Why can’t people just put money in the bank?

From rags to riches, back to rags ! Perfect ending !

“Flat Broke” to T.O. could probably support 10 families for years.

As famous sportwriter Haywood Broun said, “Sports does not build character, it reveals it”.

He’x not “going through hell.” He’s still able to come up up with $40K+ for child support. And if he runs out, he could obviously get a job as a celebrity greeter, sales assistant, etc. and make more money than the average person.

I guess he no longer has 25 million reasons to stick around.

He never made 80 million. Not even close. You media people will say or write anything to embellish a story.

80million and he can’t afford a condom?

Actually I do feel sorry for him. At least he tried to invest and extend his wealth. It’s just unfortunate that his investments didn’t work out. I mean, when you have that kind of money, who can you really trust that well to handle your money? His personality will make it hard for him to work for others but he still has his name. He wrote a Fitness book. Why not stay along those lines? Start a football camp or clinics. Endorse quality fitness equipment and diets. He still has options open to him. I hate to hear about anyone being broke.

T.O is not the first to loose millions from bad investment and definitely won’t be the last. Just ask the millions of homeowners who bought into the American dream of home ownership as a means of wealth building. Thousands of people invested their money to purchase a home with the hopes of being able sell it at a profit. But due to the housing market crash, they lost most of the equity and in some cases their homes. The only difference between T.O and them is that T.O earned far more money than the average person. Therefor it allowed him to purchase more expensive homes.

As far as the business ventures. He should have done his own diligence, so that could know whether those (snakes, parasites) sorry advisers were trust worthy and had as much to loose in these ventures as he did. Does someone have to have previous experience in an certain type of business in order to invest or start one? I would hope not. I agree, without previous experience in a certain business or industry, the learning curve may be longer, but so what. With time comes knowledge and experience . If not for courageous entrepreneurs and business people, many wold not have jobs. We all have a choice. Create your own wealth and be the master of your own destiny, or work for someone else your whole life, until they have sucked everything out of you (energy, strength, creativity, drive, and ambition).

In regards to friends or lack there of. Sometime it is a blessing if certain people are removed out of your life. What is important is that know he knows who is genuine.

T.O know has wisdom and still has a promising, future if he takes heed of these life lessons. All he has to do is reach deep down inside and gather all his strength and move forward. I can’t wait for the day when I will be able to read his best selling motivational book about “How He Went From Riches Tto Rags, Then Riches Again”. Don’t give up T.O your story is just beginning.

Him being broke always comes back to that 2 million dollar investment what about the other 78???

@CYNICALME, and you know all about being stupid.

Just another pro athlete drama queen … heaven forbid he should have to get a wage job now – yawn …

Everything happens for a reason.

When one door closes another door opens. An ownership stake of an Indoor Football sports team, this is fantastic.

I can’t wait for the day, when I will be able to read his best selling motivational book about “How I Went From Riches To Rags, Then Riches Again. By T.O”. Don’t give up T.O your story is just beginning.

And this is news? Who gives a crap!

OK….So TO screwed up. What he has to do immediately is to hire the most reputable business management firm that he can find. He can use someone like Calvin Hill (Cowboys) or Doughy (Colts) to help him do that. The firm would negotiate a much better child support plan, put him on a set salary per month and start to reorganize his business affairs. If TO ever gets his head straight and does something like this, he would be solvent within 5 years. If not -pity the fool.

T.O is not the first to loose millions from bad investment and definitely won’t be the last. Just ask the millions of homeowners who bought into the American dream of home ownership as a means of wealth building. Thousands of people invested their money to purchase a home with the hopes of being able sell it at a profit. But due to the housing market crash, they lost most of the equity and in some cases their homes. The only difference between T.O and them is that T.O earned far more money than the average person. Therefor it allowed him to purchase more expensive homes.

As far as the business ventures. He should have done his own due diligence, so that he could know whether those (snakes, parasites) sorry advisers were trust worthy and had as much to loose in these ventures as he did. Does someone have to have previous experience in a certain type of business in order to invest or start one? I would hope not. I agree, without previous experience in a certain business or industry, the learning curve may be longer, but so what. With time comes knowledge and experience . If not for courageous entrepreneurs and business people, many would not have jobs. We all have a choice. Create your own wealth and be the master of your own destiny, or work for someone else your whole life, until they have sucked everything out of you (energy, strength, creativity, drive, and ambition).

In regards to friends or lack there of. Sometime it is a blessing if certain people are removed out of your life. What is important is that know he knows who is genuine.

T.O know has wisdom and still has a promising, future if he takes heed of these life lessons. All he has to do is reach deep down inside and gather all his strength and move forward. I can’t wait for the day when I will be able to read his best selling motivational book about “How He Went From Riches To Rags, Then Riches Again”. Don’t give up T.O your story is just beginning.

NOFLYZONE:”T.O. has a nice torso and a six-pack abs. He won’t have a problem finding another woman.”

Sounds like that the LAST thing he needs right now! With 4 kids by 4 women and the INSANE child support he paying (I don’t care HOW much money the guy had/has, support payments should reflect the reasonable needs of the CHILD, including for future education…these amounts are ridiculous!)

And yes, his lifestyle was/is lavish. Just another person from a modest background who hit it rich and had no idea of how to manage the funds or limit expenditures and was taken advantage of (by his advisors and the women he so foolishly impregnated.)

It’s no one’s fault but his own. Or maybe it’s Bush’s fault, or the white man’s fault. How many of us would love to have earned $80 million to see if we could do better! And children by 4 different women, whose fault is that? I’d say he’s a good reverse role model – don’t be like him!

I guess most people aren’t aware that Pro sports management have asset managers come in and explain how to manage new found wealth. Evidently, some are not ethical. This guy probably had the gov’t. take 50% right off the top. HE didn’t choose to make that bad investment on his own..his financial “advisors” did. He was taken and should have recourse against them
He also needs to go back to court and ask for reduced child support, due to change of circumstances. If his income is reduced, so should the child support.
He is at fault for not putting the proceeds from home sales into a plain vailla money market account.

Just to show you how stupid these Athetics are when they have more money than they know what to do with. There are college grads that don’t have health care, can’t buy a home and these idot’s through away money like crazy.

T.O.: You can come and work for me.

@ Rob | January 21, 2012, 11:40 am 11:40 am

“Absolutely astonishing how many people delight in another person’s unhappiness.

TO sounds like he is being open and honest and perhaps in this day and age that is a crime.”

Rob…

It is painfully obvious that you have ABSOLUTELY NO KNOWLEDGE of what kind of a person T.O. really is! Thank your God that you’ve never had anything to do with him!!

Michael

Who cares?

Before we judge TO too harshly, remember that most of us are “never was”‘s and most of us have our own laziness, ignorance, and personal sloth to blame. It’s easy to hate people when you hate yourself. Reflect on your own life and be better people.

Shocking that another well-paid athlete is broke. Too bad those “college” athletes don’t have good management/life sense/skills.

It’s always someone else’s fault with this guy. Pardon me if I don’t cry while his “act” comes to its logical conclusion. You can bet that at least one person told him that his posse was taking a page from his book and looking out for only themselves. But TO always knows better, right? Sure.

I see he is still a victim and still refusing to take responsibility. Even Mike Tyson smartened up in the end. I feel no pity for Mr. Owens, he had it all and he squandered it as if he could ball for 30 years; time to go back to school and sell insurance Mr. Owens.

$44,600 a month?!?!? Thats $11,150 per kid a month. I’m lucky to get $150 a month!! I need to know what lawyers his baby mamas use! lol. But seriously….thats pretty excessive…….

It’s a sad reality TO, but you are not the first to go broke. Millions of regular working citizens are broke, yet do not have a reality show, or other investments/endorsments. You need to go back to school and learn about finances so you may turn your frown upside down! Or, with a body like that, you can hit the pole and shake a lil something!
Also, if you don’t burn your bridges, you would have plenty of friends.

a fool and his money are soon parted. can’t wait to have TO serve me fries at the drive-thru!

Typical pro player who would get filthy rich overnight because they could play ball.And oh yeah they’re so arrogant most of the time too. But then a lot of them are so ignorant how to live life. And no brain either.unfortunately a lot of kids idolize these jerks .

In the words of the great Artie Lange….WWWWWAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

really T.O. dont invest try managing it better oh an please stop crying about child suooprt u made them thisi is an easy fix down size go back to the basics

remember this god is was an still will be ur only friend at all times :) life is what u make it.

Damn right I’d be friendless with 80 mil, but that’s how I would want it.

” “I don’t have no friends,” he told GQ. ”I don’t want no friends. That’s how I feel.” ”

Sounds like he’s finally got what he wants – no friends (assuming the meaning of his double negative) – shouldn’t cost $80M to get no friends though… The houses were cheap compared to child support – if the kids are 5,7,10,12 at $44.6K/month, that adds up to $18.2M, but if 3 of 4 are suing him, that means he hasn’t paid it all – coulda bought a lotta hookers with no strings for that kinda cash….

I remember seeing a feature on him several years ago where he kept saying, “I love me some me.” That was the problem…….

Let’s see… the guy has four children with four different women, made investments in illegal gambling, bought two multi-million dollar homes in states where he doesn’t work, and thinks that his problems are everyone elses fault. Sorry, got no sympathy for the guy. Like a previous poster said… a fool and his money are soon parted.

Wow, with a track record like that he should run for congress.

Wow T.O. – A half million a year in child support? Did you ever think that perhaps you should have tied the baby making tube? You can go back to the courts and show the how destitute you are. They may reduce it to, I don’t know, $30k per month?

Wow, you guys are yelling jump to the man on the ledge. TO is not the first of our overpaid athlete’s to throw away his money and wont be the last. I think this story reveals that at our very basic necessities we need friends and self worth. Belief in Christ is the only thing on the earth that can not be taken away from you and that can bring peace no matter what you’ve done. It’s not to late for anyone especially TO. No God, No Peace… Know God, Know Peace

I love stories like this! It makes me feel better about pulling out ;-)

I can’t believe how everyone is putting this guy down…… Ok he’s made some horrible invensments and mistakes but he’s still a human being Who God brought into this world. He has a chance again to start over and try his best to make his life a little better. No onee has the right to JUDGE PEOPLE!!! Jehovah God is the ONLY TRUE JUDGE. I feel strongly that if T.O. would go to God with his whole heart, soul and mind and ask him to guide and lead his life right now I know he will get some comfort knwing that God will never put him down, leave him when he’s at rock bottom or forsake him. My prayers are with you T.O. God Bless!

Hey T.O…..Kim Kardasian is available again…..

Since the average family of four makes about $50K in America then i suspect most of us working stiffs are about broke too. A nation of bums…

Don’t feel sorry for ya buddy. Go get snipped so you can have your fun and produce no expensive off spring.

By my measure you had 800 years of comfortable living in the bank. The average American tax payer might get by on that for 1500 years…

This is why I can’t bring myself to give any cares about pro sports, Hollywood or any of the rest of them. They soak up too many dollars for what they do.

That’s why they pay those athletics so much money because they know those people can’t handle their finance and eventually will bankrupt themselves. From no money to million and million of dollars over night, they went out and blow it instead of investing. It’s a joke.

see what happens when you desicrate the cowboy star T.O?Go get a reduction in child support and spend as much time as you can with your children.They are only young once!Dont think much of you but God bless anyway.Everyone can change.Good luck!

He’s not taking responsibility.That’s why he’s in the mess he’s in. I hope he learns a lesson. Listen to the song “God Bless the Child”.

I agree with posting: “carole | January 20, 2012, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm”

T.O. Try Jesus, go after him with the intensity of a work out…

We have all messed up badly, myself included. I found hope in Jesus:

28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

You will never regret this choice!!!

Pride cometh before the fall. Was there a more prideful athelete?

What goes around, comes around, right, Terrell?

Dude When You Finally Become A Man Then You Learn Who Your Real Friends Are. You Should Have Kept Your ZIPPER Closed CUZ.

TO, I am praying for you to feel better. N Don’t pay attention to all the jealous people who wish they had money and are saying bad things. G-d gave you money once and he may yet choose to give it to you again. Maybe this is a tough lesson, but the most important thing is to keep on going.

I’ve been at the top , and I’ve been at the bottom …..and I’ll be at the top and I’ll be at the bottom again… Lou Holtz quote

Who is this guy?

Go ask your good friends Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb for help!!!!

I like how he says it is all someone else’s fault. Poor Terrell, boo hoo. He has 4 children with 4 different mothers. He deserves to be miserable the rest of his life simply for that. Those poor children deserve a father, not a sperminator. Why wouldn’t a man with 80 million dollars be more discriminate with his seed? He should have spent more time learning how to handle his money, instead of letting it all just slip through his fingers. Its a lot harder to hold onto money than it is to make it.

T.O.: Get out. Volunteer. Do some good for someone who isn’t you. I’m sorry you’re in this position, but perhaps you wouldn’t be if you’d spent some time focusing on someone besides yourself. Spend time with your kids. Spend some time improving the world. And if you are truly depressed, go see a doctor for some help. But this attention mongering you’ve been trying to satisfy yourself with for years clearly hasn’t gotten you very much. Try something new, and devote some time and energy to others, and to getting your life together. You’ll be surprised how good it feels.

T.O. Good guys always finish last. Keep your sprit up every thing will workout. I think your a great football player. Stop being a lover these woman are taking advantage of you.

These overpaid (absurdly overpaid) self indulgent morons make hundreds of millions and squander all those millions on nothing of value, and yes folks, in the big picture, sports on that level are nothing important. Hard as people try they can’t make a pro sport anything more than what it is – a waste of money and too much attention devoted to some sick pukes. If anything these millionaire jerks and their “fans” have made the game far less important than it ever was. It used to be a game, now it’s all about money. Very shallow people getting way too much money for doing nothing of value. Too bad for the game and anyone who thinks it’s worth more than the scam these idiots have made. Save your money and force these jerks to get a job that means something .

To those who say “don’t judge”: tell the guy, whoever he is, to not come online and cry if he doesn’t want to be judged. He’s voluntarily putting this out here.

His financial advisers didn’t impregnate the 4 women. Too bad he didn’t use some of that $80 mil to buy some self-control.

Shoulda asked for financial advice from one of the 4 gold-diggers, they seem to be a lot more savvy about money than he is.

As long as these supposed “institutions of higher learning” (eyeroll) put sports over education and rubber-stamp these guys through college (most of whom should never have been allowed to graduate junior high, never mind high school), we will continue to see these stories.

Welcome to America under Obama. Nice of you to join us.

such a shame for these bad things happening to someone that has always been a friendly, down-to-earth, humble, and self-effacing kind of guy… #/hurl

TO, you may not have a lot of money,but you’re young and strong and Donovan McNab will give you a job,he said so in his comment.

I’m playing a tune on the world’s smallest violin just for TO.

@ NORMAN ~ January 21, 2012, 5:48 am 5:48 am : “But they don’t realize that you LOVE your kids ”

NORMAN… I’ve got at least 15 years of experience with T.O. and his antics and his ups and downs, his lies and his B.S., and I am DEAD CERTAIN that T.O. DOES NOT LOVE ANYONE EXCEPT T.O.! 15 (PLUS) years of observing that egotist have proved that to me. And the fact that all his “So-Called” FRIENDS have ‘bailed out’ is just the ‘proof of the pudding’! No more money to buy drugs for them, take them out on the town… etc… Their ‘bail out’ must be very disappointing to him, but without all those perks, anyone with an ounce of self respect would get as far away as possible from a person who is as self-centered as T.O. is. You have to EARN FRIENDSHIP T.O. !! ~ IT CANNOT BE BOUGHT! ~ The same goes for LOYALTY, T.O. !! ~ Loyalty = “A feeling or attitude of devoted attachment and affection”… Two things that aren’t in T.O.’s vocabulary. Just ask his EX-Teammates!

Good Luck to ya’, T.O. ~ My guess is that you’re gonna need it!
Michael

T.O. is a true portrait of how one’s great skill, can be over-shadowed by a bad attitude & a sexually sloppy lifestyle. Don’t look for the state to finance your mismatched family. Get a job & pay for your children!

He needs intense counseling and has been unable to overcome issues from his childhood. Some people who have dealt with those same issues were able to find a sense of peace. He’s human and I’m sure he’s learning a lesson. The fame and money act as drugs to fill the emptiness. I hope he realizes there are more possibilities than “hell.”