Maualuga sticking to his story
In one of the more hotly rumored, um rumors floating around Humboldt County, Eureka High grad and current Cincinnati Bengal Rey Maualuga tweeted today that he is 132 days sober, despite rumors that he's fallen off the wagon.
"On Wednesday 9th June 2010, @maualuga58 said:
I love how ppl say that they saw me @ a bar with a beer in my hand. #getalife! Worry about you as I do me! 132 days in sobriety! #onlyGodcanjudgeme"
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/1p79vi
The subject is newsworthy because he has made it an issue. Maualuga got into an alcohol- and emotion-fueled fight his freshman year at USC (his late father was in his last days at the hospital) and in late January/early February was charged and pleaded guilty to DUI. Following the DUI, Maualuga went to rehab and a little more than three months later professed he was 100 days sober.
I, for one, am hoping that it's not true. He doesn't flat-out deny that he had a beer, and the only thing wrong with that would be that he lied to us, but I hope he can stay clean. He's worked hard to be in his position and it would be an incredible story of redemption. Not to mention that he could make it that much easier for everyone in our community to continue to look up to him.