Jimmy White's new life, young beauty queen girlfriend and lost snooker fortune
Jimmy White's new life, young beauty queen girlfriend and lost snooker fortune
Jimmy White is enjoying a more low-key lifestyle nowadays after living the dream before almost losing everything
Jimmy White has been with current girlfriend Jade Slusarczyk since 2018
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Snooker legend Jimmy White says his relationship with beauty queen girlfriend Jade Slusarczyk has helped turn his life around following his previous struggles with gambling and drugs.
White, 62, who famously reached six World Championship finals without winning a single one during the height of his career, was known as much for his partying as his antics on the baize back in the 1980s and 90s.
He has previously admitted to gambling away millions of pounds during his career, and has also opened up on his struggles with cocaine.
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However, he says his 39-year-old partner has helped to keep him on the straight and narrow.
The pair met in 2018 during a snooker tournament in Slusarczyk's hometown, seven years after she had been crowned Miss Blackpool, and White admits the Sky Sports walk-on girl has been instrumental in helping him turn his back on his destructive tendencies.
"It's impossible to say how much I used to drink in my wild days. It was drink after drink and line after line and I'd go missing for days," he told The Sun in 2021.
"It took 15 years to get sober and I don't miss that life at all. Jade's helped me because she doesn't drink.
"I've never been so happy and I'm pleased to say my life is in a good place. I haven't got a zillion in the bank but I have my family and Jade.
"I didn't think for a minute she'd go out with me, because of the age difference.
"It's a miracle she fancies me. But she doesn't care about the age difference, so why should I?
"She's my girlfriend and she's fit so I'm happy. She's a beautiful girl, inside and out."
White has previously revealed how he blew much of his fortune on gambling, which he says brought him to the point of bankruptcy.
Jimmy White in action
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"I gambled at least three million quid, so if I gambled three million quid I probably had to earn six or seven million to get that,' he told the Anything Goes podcast in 2021.
"That's a lump, that's retirement money, so I should be more sick with that.
"But because at the time it was going so f***ing quick you don't think do you.
"I went bankrupt through gambling."
Drugs have also been a vice for White, who at the height of his exploits was know as 'The Whirlwind' by virtue of his aggressive style of play.
He also told Louis Theroux's documentary Gods of Snooker: "Cocaine was absolutely everywhere.
"It was like the devil's dandruff, but crack – it's evil. I tried smoking it and got completely addicted.
"I remember I had £35,000 in an account and I drained that on crack."
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White's wait for another appearance at the World Championships is set to stretch to two decades after he was beaten in qualifying last week.
The 62-year-old lost 10-5 to Ashley Carty in the second round of the qualifying tournament at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield, and hasn't appeared at the Crucible since a first-round defeat back in 2006.
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