{"id":89534,"date":"2026-05-23T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89534"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:13:53","slug":"gareth-thomas-chemsex-left-my-friend-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/23\/gareth-thomas-chemsex-left-my-friend-on-life-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Thomas: Chemsex left my friend on life support"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SEI_298410133.jpg?w=760\" alt=\"CARDIFF, WALES - MARCH 19: Gareth Thomas (left) and Michael Owen hold aloft the trophy after winning the Grand Slam by beating Ireland in the RBS Six Nations International between Wales and Ireland at The Millennium Stadium on March 19, 2005 in Cardiff, Wales. (Photo by Pool\/Getty Images)\" width=\"679\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>My Sporting Life is The i Paper\u2019s look behind the curtain at what drives sports stars to greatness. <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/gareth-thomas-chemsex-4383068\">Read More<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>My Sporting Life is The i Paper\u2019s look behind the curtain at what drives sports stars to greatness. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Garret-Thomas.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89535,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89534\/revisions\/89535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}