QUARTERBACK Colt Brennan "went to the dark side" before his alleged drug-related death after spending months in rehab, his grieving dad revealed.
Terry Brennan said the 37-year-old football player was found unconscious at a California rehabilitation facility where he’d been staying for five months.
Colt was taken to a hospital in Newport where he was pronounced dead on Monday.
Terry told ESPN yesterday that his son had taken “something laced with fentanyl” and never regained consciousness.
He claimed that Colt had tried to enter a detox program but couldn’t remain as there were no beds available.
He said: "He was really into it. It involved a lot of physical activity and he liked it. He was working with soldiers who had come back from Afghanistan and Iraq with similar problems.
“He was doing quite well with it for four months. Then something happened and he went to the dark side, and it was just not good."
Family members were at the football player's bedside before he passed away.
Terry said: "He went peacefully. “He listened to Bob Marley.
"His sisters had a lei around him when he was unconscious. They had the music of Bob Marley playing near his ear."
Months before his death, in August 2020, Brennan was arrested for causing a disturbance at a hotel in Honolulu.
According to a police report, a "heavily intoxicated" Brennan was charged with second-degree trespassing “intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly entered or remained unlawfully” at the Kona Seaside hotel – despite several warnings from staff to leave.
He was also twice previously arrested for DUI, most recently in December 2019 where he was also charged with driving without insurance and leaving the scene of an accident involving damage.
His other arrest came in July 2012, he was busted for driving under the influence and drug possession.
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Last month, the former footballer reflected on his past infractions in a lengthy Instagram post and also addressed a sexual misconduct allegation made against him while he was at the University of Colorado.
While Colt denied the claim, he was accused of exposing himself to a female student during a night of heavy drinking. The alleged incident reportedly happened shortly before he moved to Hawaii.
He said: "I’ve been through a lot in my life. I was a convicted felon for a crime I never committed, (passed polygraph and all). I captured every dream I had as a child."
He recalled having two knee and hip surgeries after he was drafted into the NFL before suffering a brain injury as a passenger in a car accident.
He said: "I battled drug and alcohol abuse, and eventually developed blood clots after the car accident.
"I spent 9 months in the hospital and for the last 2 1/2 years have been trying to learn how to walk again with a broken heart.
"I found redemption once, I will find it again. They say: 'Some people are just born to fight, and it’s not their born brave or born strong. It’s just that the Universe decided that this one, this one will have the grit and fire, and the steel in their blood.
"They will be tested this cosmic mettle of theirs. They will face trial after trial, be broken and damaged in countless ways, but this one was born to fight.'"
Colt led an offense that helped the team win the Hawaii Bowl in 2006.
He finished the 2007 season as a Heisman Trophy finalist and was the first player to do so in Hawaii's football history.
He became the NCAA’s all-time leader in touchdown passes in a game against the Boise States during that same season.
The footballer was then selected by Washington Football Team in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
The club tweeted that they were "saddened" to hear about the former quarterback's passing.
He spent two years there before moving to the Oakland Raiders.
The quarterback suffered severe injuries as a passenger in a head-on collision in 2010, bringing his NFL career to an abrupt end.
He spent some time in the United Football League, Canadian Football League, and Arena Football League, before retiring in 2014.
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