Police records complicate Herschel Walker's recovery story

[George II]

Source: Associated Press

28 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — One warm fall evening in 2001, police in Irving, Texas, received an alarming call from Herschel Walker’s therapist. The football legend and current Republican Senate candidate in Georgia was “volatile,” armed and scaring his estranged wife at the suburban Dallas home they no longer shared.

Officers took cover outside, noting later that Walker had “talked about having a shoot-out with police.” Then they ordered the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner and onetime Dallas Cowboy to step out of the home, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request.

Much of what happened that day at the $1.9 million mansion remains shrouded from view because the report, which Irving police released to the AP only after ordered to do so by the Texas attorney general’s office, was extensively redacted.

What is clear, though, is that Walker’s therapist, Jerry Mungadze, a licensed counselor in Texas with a history of embracing practices that experts in the field say are outside the mainstream, played a pivotal role in extracting the former player from the situation.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/herschel-walker-nfl-georgia-senate-704738fdbed64383e25e3435684d7341

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More details in the remaining portion of the article.

[Ray Bruns]

1. which Irving police released to the AP only after ordered to do so by the Texas attorney general

was extensively redacted.

And there is your cover up, ladies and gentlemen.

"And it will test voters’ acceptance of Walker’s assertion that he has long since been a changed person."

Well, he wouldn't be a republican if he didn't assault a woman somehow.

[ArizonaLib]

2. We should not forget to check a couple of boxes in addition to domestic violence

He planned an armed confrontation with police in case they confronted him, which he wound up going ahead with.

He arranged and benefited from a cover up.

He's a chickenshit bully.

[iluvtennis]

3. And when he was a teenager, his single parent mom was afraid

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of him and carried a 38 in her waistband in case he went off.

Read that years ago when he was in college. I’ll look for a link and add it here.

[csziggy]

11. Referenced in this CNN article

https://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/04/15/herschel.walker.did/index.html

But not in the detail you mention.

[iluvtennis]

12. Thank you. My look for a link wasn't fruitful :-( n/t

[DanieRains]

4. It Is Actually A Pretty Good Story If I Remember Right His Mom And The 38

Herschel was misbehaving a lot and his single mom had enough. According to what I heard he said he came home and she had a 38 and a switch. She taught him to behave. He said it turned his life around. That was the story. Probably part of it is true.

Would it make him a better Senator than Raphael Warnock.

Not in a trillion years.

[iluvtennis]

13. Thanks for the clarification. Warnock for the win! n/t

[AZLD4Candidate]

5. In my mind, with all the negatives, he should be a shoo in in the Georgia Senate primary

Sociopathic, borderline illiterate, violent, egotistical, football star, and a Trumpist.

He's everything the modern day Republican Party is.

[NurseJackie]

6. He's not right. He's not running on all cylinders. He's not playing with a full deck.

His pilot light is out. He has splinters in the windmills of his mind. He's not the sharpest tool in the shed. He's as smart as bait. He's got all the sense of a box of hair. The light is on, but nobody is home. He's a couple of beers short of a six-pack. A small town in Georgia is missing their village idiot. He's a few fries short of a Happy Meal. He's a few quarters short of a roll. His elevator doesn't go to the top floor. He's missing a few buttons on his remote control. He has bats in his belfry.

[Captain Zero]

15. Just how the GQP likes them.

Batshit crazy. Nuttier than a fruit cake.

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. yet there are villiage idots who will vote for him

if not, the repugs can just steal it now anyway.

[UGADawg]

8. The SEC Network had a "Special" on Walker that indicated ..........

among other things Walker is mentally unstable.

Walker actually considered joining the Marines instead of playing College and Pro Football. I don't know the actual term for it but he has a split personality. I wish all could see the SEC Network show.

[True Blue American]

9. Bi-Polar?

I do not personally know any but my friend worked in a Mental Health unit!

Hershel is 2 bricks shy of a load, Bless his heart. I was just reminded of that commercial of Governor Ivey!

[csziggy]

10. He's admitted he has dissociative identity disorder

Herschel Walker reveals many sides of himself
By Miriam Falco
CNN

In his just-released book "Breaking Free," Walker reveals he has a form of mental illness called dissociative identity disorder, or DID, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

"I didn't really learn about this until about 10 years ago," Walker tells CNN. "My life was out of control. I was not happy, I was very sad, I was angry and I didn't understand why."

Walker said his life went off the tracks shortly after his football career ended and when his now ex-wife was expecting their son, Christian.

The book, he said, is about coming to terms with his diagnosis. He hopes to educate the public and break down stereotypes about this disorder.

When people hear of multiple personality disorder, they may think of Hollywood's portrayal -- someone with different "people" trapped inside one body, but that is not accurate.

More: https://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/04/15/herschel.walker.did/index.html

Everyone has various facets that make up his or her personality -- assertive, angry, comforting. But, experts explain, in DID, these various parts -- known as alters -- don't come together as one cohesive single personality. Instead, one or the other part of the identity takes over and determines one's behavior.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Walker's Past Could Let Warnock Keep Senate Seat, Rivals Say

TFG helped elect the two Georgia senators in the run off and now may be helping the Democrats keep this seat. Walker is not qualified to be Senator

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Republicans risk losing the U.S. Senate race if they nominate Herschel Walker, two of Walker's rivals said, citing a report by The Associated Press about how police confiscated a gun from the former football great following a domestic dispute 20 years ago.

“I’m here today because more shocking pieces of Herschel Walker’s past have been discovered,” Senate candidate and state Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black told reporters Friday in Atlanta. “And I’m deeply concerned that we’re about to forfeit control of the United States Senate again, under our watch, when it could be easily avoided.”

Black repeated an earlier statement that Walker’s past should disqualify him from the Senate.

Another rival, Navy veteran and former banker Latham Saddler said Thursday that Republicans need to nominate someone with “a clean record” and can’t risk the “drip, drip, drip of stories” about Walker.