{"id":162428,"date":"2025-06-06T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162428\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T08:05:09","slug":"bradley-wiggins-i-couldnt-care-less-what-the-newspapers-sensationalise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162428\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Wiggins: I couldn&#8217;t care less what the newspapers sensationalise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former cycling star Bradley Wiggins, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c4g6pz7en7lo\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made headlines after speaking about his post-career cocaine addiction,<\/a> tells BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast&#8217;s Rick Edwards he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t care less what the newspapers want to sensationalise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said after his career ended, he &#8220;suddenly had to deal with things that people normally take a lot of time to deal with&#8221;, referring to his father&#8217;s death and sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Help and support for any of the issues raised in this interview can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/actionline\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1kta2ux-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk\/actionline<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This clip is originally from 5 Live Breakfast on Friday 6 June 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former cycling star Bradley Wiggins, who recently made headlines after speaking about his post-career cocaine addiction, tells BBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-162428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114635389486089684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}