{"id":127225,"date":"2015-01-25T19:05:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T03:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=127225"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:53:21","slug":"chris-leben-opens-new-tell-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/chris-leben-opens-new-tell-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Leben Opens Up About New Tell All Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG.png\" alt=\"Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG\" width=\"484\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chris-Leben-Wins-PNG-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fan favorite fighter, Chris &#8216;The Crippler&#8217; Leben may no longer be fighting, but Leben is looking to open up about his time fighting, and his struggles with addiction throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>Lebrun spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/01\/chris-leben-to-tell-all-in-new-book-but-reliving-old-struggles-isnt-always-easy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a> to discuss the book, and why it&#8217;s difficult to re-live his often dark past.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve been with playmates in a penthouse, and I\u2019ve been smoking crack with bums under a bridge.  My life has taken me in both directions, kind of at the same time. It will make for good reading, I\u2019ll tell you that. But it\u2019s kind of hard to write it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been pretty open with a lot of my battles.  I think mine is more of a life story than a story about an athlete pursuing a dream. It\u2019s got some very real moments in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou bring all that stuff back up again, and it isn\u2019t easy.  It\u2019s therapeutic, or at least that\u2019s what I\u2019m telling myself. Because reliving a lot of it is tough.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Will you be buying Leben&#8217;s book when it releases?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fan favorite fighter, Chris &#8216;The Crippler&#8217; Leben may no longer be fighting, but Leben is looking to open up about his time fighting, and his struggles with addiction throughout his career. 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