Former NFL linebacker Junior Seau says he fell asleep at the wheel when he drove off a cliff hours after his arrest early this morning and was not trying to kill himself.
TMZ reports that Seau told police that he wasn’t trying to commit suicide when he drove his Cadillac Escalade off a cliff in Carlsbad, California. He says he nodded off while driving.
The crash came hours after he was arrested on felony domestic violence charges and accused of attacking a woman described as his 25-year-old live-in girlfriend.
Seau reportedly showed no signs of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs, but a blood test was taken shortly after the incident.