Colts respond to Washington Post article on Jim Irsay relapsing before his death

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay, who died in May at age 65, “spent the last two years of his life in the throes of a relapse that he and Colts executives repeatedly hid from the public,” The Washington Post reported in an exclusive investigation Thursday morning, Aug. 28.

The Post, citing interviews with five people “with direct knowledge of Irsay’s relapse,” reported Irsay’s relapse and death came as he was being treated by a recovery doctor prescribing him opioids and eventually ketamine at amounts “that worried people close to him.”

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