#3. Drugging a teammate in 2017
The former England star had to take drastic action on return flight from the Lions tour to New Zealand in 2017
Haskell wrote: “One player who was known to be a nightmare on the p— was living up to his reputation. He got so drunk that he was just climbing over seats and walking through all the lads’ business-class pods without a care in the world. He then thought it would be a good idea to practise his dive passing with rolled-up inflight magazines.
Embed from Getty Images“I gave him the spiked drink and he took it down in one. He then stumbled off down the aisle, knocking someone’s drinks off their table. It was like watching a toy run out of batteries. He got slower and slower, and quieter and quieter, until he started yawning, went back to his seat for what he thought was a moment and even though I could see him trying to fight the enveloping darkness, he eventually conked out and started snoring, with his mouth gaping and saliva running down his chin.
“To this day, he doesn’t know I drugged him. He just woke up in the UK with little memory of what happened.”
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