Terrell Owens Emotional Issues Revealed On 'Fix My Life'
Terrell Owens, the former NFL star, recently recruited spiritual coach Iyanla Vanzant to help fix his life and now a preview of her show is revealing some of his issues.
"There were times when people thought I was at my happiest and I was sad. I went home and I was sad," Owens tells Vanzant in a preview of the show. "I was lonely."
Vanzant, the host of the OWN Network's "Iyanla Fix My Life" where Owens will be featured, helped the former NFL star realize that his talent has overshadowed his emotional well being.
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"You've become a victim of your talent. People never stopped to ask you, 'Terrell Owens, how you be? How you be,'" Vanzant told Owens. "You can run fast but how's your heart? You can catch a ball but how's your soul?"
When Owens attempted to tell Vanzant that he was okay, she refused to believe him.
"No you're not. You're a 40-year-old veteran athlete who doesn't have a team with no vision about what to do next," Vanzant told Owens. "Four children who are looking up to you. When you lay your head down on your pillow in the quiet times when there's nobody else, who be Terrell Owens?"
Owens, 39, took to his Twitter to share Vanzant's prayer for him, weeks after announcing his plan to appear on her OWN Network show, "Fix My Life."
"My prayer is that TO's story will teach us not to be so quick to judge and condemn w/o knowing the whole story," Vanzant tweeted to a fan in a message that Owens reposted.
His former publicist, Kita Williams, once appeared with Owens on the VH1 reality television series, "The T.O. Show." Although she has stopped working with Owens, Williams spoke about supporting his decision to work with Vanzant to transition out of his NFL career.
"I think that Iyanla can really help him as he transitions from football into his real life," Williams told thejasminebrand.com. "And I think personally, there are a lot of things that he hasn't dealt with because all his life, he has been 'T.O' – the football player. He needs understand how to be Terrell Owens – the man, the father, you know the person that he may not have met yet."
