Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong's Doping Confession | Where Are They Now | Oprah Winfrey Network — Transcript

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1. 0:03Marian Jones was once hailed as the
2. 0:05fastest woman in the world she was a
3. 0:07hero to Millions until she was found
4. 0:09guilty of lying to investigators about
5. 0:11using steroids Maran served six months
6. 0:14in federal prison I spoke with her just
7. 0:16weeks after her
8. 0:18release what was that experience like
9. 0:22for you I mean I hear prison can either
10. 0:24grow you up or tear you down it was
11. 0:27certainly
12. 0:28lifechanging there were moments Oprah
13. 0:30where I felt like um my world was over
14. 0:34you know where um I wasn't with my
15. 0:36family I wasn't with my kids um I'd made
16. 0:40such a huge
17. 0:41mistake that was four years ago and we
18. 0:44wanted to find out how life is now for
19. 0:46Marian so we caught up with her in her
20. 0:49hometown of Austin Texas same town as
21. 0:54[Music]
22. 0:56Lance 5 years ago I was quite uncertain
23. 0:59about how the Future Would um evolve and
24. 1:04well in 2008 when I sat down with opral
25. 1:07it was the first time really that I had
26. 1:10opened up about my
27. 1:12experiences um since everything happened
28. 1:15to me and to the people
29. 1:20who believe that I wasn't telling the
30. 1:23truth in my interview with Oprah um my I
31. 1:29would just tell tell them you know it's
32. 1:31it's time to move on you're never going
33. 1:34to convince everybody that you're
34. 1:36telling the
35. 1:37truth and if you attempt to do that it's
36. 1:40going to be a long long life for you um
37. 1:43you know I know in my heart that I told
38. 1:46what's true and God knows and my family
39. 1:49knows and I've moved
40. 1:53on I knew that I wanted to get back out
41. 1:56in the public and that there was going
42. 1:57to be a lot of doubters and it was going
43. 1:59to be a hard it was going to be a
44. 2:00struggle and um I thought well okay how
45. 2:03can I best help young people in
46. 2:05particular who um are possibly headed
47. 2:09down the wrong path and I just thought
48. 2:12what do I wish I would have done when I
49. 2:16saw some of these red red flags in my
50. 2:18past what do I wish I would have done at
51. 2:20that moment I wish I would
52. 2:22have taken a break I wish I would have
53. 2:25taken a step back and so that's the
54. 2:27message that I share now
55. 2:34I came to the conclusion that if I had
56. 2:35just taken a break if I had just slowed
57. 2:38down taken a step back and really assess
58. 2:41the situation um I could have made a
59. 2:44better choice kids know that I've I've
60. 2:46lived it and I'm just trying to help
61. 2:48them not make certain choices and being
62. 2:51able to speak to young people and share
63. 2:54my experiences it almost makes it all
64. 2:56worth it
65. 3:03you know I have almost become like the
66. 3:06poster
67. 3:07child for for poor decisions that
68. 3:11athletes
69. 3:12make a lot of people um
70. 3:16used my downfall to for their benefit
71. 3:21and I vowed that I would never
72. 3:23capitalize on somebody else's hard times
73. 3:26right um because I know how it feels for
74. 3:31people to turn their
75. 3:34backs I think my hope for
76. 3:37for any athletes in public eye
77. 3:43um when they have to admit
78. 3:46wrongdoing is that it's first important
79. 3:50[Music]
80. 3:52to confront the people whom you know you
81. 3:55hurt and then secondly you have to to
82. 3:59begin the long long road of of forgiving
83. 4:03yourself and
84. 4:05although now you might not be able to
85. 4:10see any good in your life um I think I'm
86. 4:15a testament that if you surround
87. 4:18yourself with people who love you and
88. 4:20care for you that there's
89. 4:22light at the end of the tunnel if I
90. 4:25could say that
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