Jimmy White's net value, drug addiction, dog drafts and 23-year-old age gap | Other | sport

Jimmy White is perhaps the biggest player who never wins the world's snooker championship, even though he has reached six crucible finals. He was beaten at every opportunity and left it without the largest price that the sport has to offer. Since then, the 62-year-old has won four times at the World Senior Championships, a record that was not presented by every other player.

White was a well -known name at the height of his strength and won two by Snooker's Triple Crown Events, the Masters in 1984 and the British championship in 1992. White is also known for his heroic deeds from the table after he sometimes fought in his personal life.

From a crippled drug addiction to a relationship with an age gap with two decades, everything you need to know about White's life outside of Snooker is …

Impressive assets

White achieved a lot of prize money throughout his career after winning a total of 37 ranking and non-ranking titles. He has dared to do the media work in recent times and is currently serving as an expert in TNT Sports for the World Snooker Championship.

According to Celebrity Net Worth, his activities gave him an impressive assets of around £ 6.7 million. Although it is impressive, it fades compared to many other snooker icons. Ronnie O'Sullivan, for example, is assumed that it is worth an amazing £ 20 million.

Crack cocaine dependency

White opened his struggle with addiction in his autobiography, the second wind, and revealed that he was smoking with his close friend and player Kirk Stevens in a hotel room at the Irish Masters Crack cocaine.

“Sounds far -fetched, is it? But about three crazy months it was true,” he wrote. “I think Kirk tried it at first, but I'm my own husband and I don't blame anyone that I had something as stupid as smoking cracks.”

He later revealed that his short -lived addiction to the drug cost him thousands of pounds and admitted:

Finally, White decided to kick the habit, but the withdrawal symptoms meant that he lived in a nightmare until they started after about two weeks after deposits.

“I hardly moved in bed, cried, trembling, paranoid, angry and covered with cold sweat,” he said. “I had the feeling that I would die, but I knew I had to stick to it. I was a father. I was a husband. I had this snooker gift that I smoked.”

Let his dog take

Having stolen a dog is the worst scenario of a pet owner and white has experienced it himself when a gang of thieves kidnapped his bullerier named Splinter.

“When my dog ​​was missing, I brought out these posters everywhere because he used to miss a lot,” he told Colin Murray in 2017.

“Anyway, day three and my children cry. I am looking for my dog ​​every day. Someone came back to me and said:” We have their dog, but we exchanged it for a stab for £ 300.

“It is obviously a load of B ******. Anyway, he sent this guy. When I met him at the clock tower at midnight, a rainy night in winter, I went out into this round and this geezer comes out and says: 'Jimmy white!'

“He is gone: 'Jimmy, I get £ 150 for it. I don't want the 150 pounds. Here is your dog. Just give the £ 150 that I have to give to people.' I said, 'Look, take the £ 300. I just want my dog ​​back'

“He gave a sign with it and a small white van comes across the street. They opened the back door, took the dog out and gone away. My dog ​​is so dopy that he jumped back into the F ****** van.”

Age gap with girlfriend

White is currently in a long-term relationship with Jade Slusarczyk, who was previously an darts that can be used for Sky Sports. They first met in 2018, seven years after Slusarczyk Miss Blackpool had been crowned.

There is a big age difference between the couple, with which Snooker legend is now 62 and his partner only 39. However, despite their inequality, they thrive in years, which White believes that it is nothing less than a miracle.

“It's a miracle that she introduces me,” he said once. “But she doesn't take care of the age difference, why should I? She is my girlfriend and she is fit, so I'm happy.”

A year after the meeting, Slusarczyk revealed that White was not honest primarily. She explained: “He told me that he was 35 years old. I didn't even know who he was or that he was famous.”