The headline above probably shocked you. It’s why you clicked, right?

In what universe would one expect to hear that former UFC champion hall-of-famer Don Frye is homeless. That just doesn’t seem right.

He is though, and after an attempted suicide, divorce and battle with poor health, the UFC legend is speaking out about his problems.

Currently Homeless, Fry stated,

“I walked around for a year and a half, two years, with two broken titanium rods in my back. I knew I was hurting, I hurt terribly and I [was living] so miserably and was in so much pain. They were broke in half, they were stabbing me in the back. One of the surgeries was three hours long for them just to clean up the scar tissue on the insides from the rods stabbing me in the back and scraping and all that.

“The first surgery was to replace them, and then I was out for three days. Then, I had a brain hemorrhage [so they] put in me into a coma. Then I was in ICU in a coma in ICU for three weeks, while they fucked with that, and I got pneumonia, and I got a spinal infection. Would have killed a normal man, but just a bad weekend for ‘The Donger’.”

“It changed my whole outlook. I’m ready to go, I was ready to go before [now]. The divorce fucked me up so much, I lost everything, I tried getting the cops to shoot me two or three times. God bless them — good ole’ boys — they were fans, they knew who I was. They didn’t pull the trigger when they could have.”

“I’m homeless right now,” Frye said. “So I don’t have a girlfriend, don’t have a job, don’t have a family and I got half my healthy back. So I’m halfway to one. … [I’m living] in my truck — well, as far as the ex-wife knows. Other than that, she’ll be asking for money, you know.”

“Nothing ruins my day anymore. Life is short, life is a gift, and it’s over in a blink of an eye so appreciate it.”

Here’s his full interview: