Sweet Dreams, Nightmare Past! My Pillow Inventor Confesses: I Was A Crackhead
March 3 2017, Published 9:54 a.m. ET
Mike Lindell became a worldwide sensation when he began selling “My Pillows,” but a new report in Star magazine reveals that his road to success was paved with drug addiction, bankruptcies and divorce!
“I was an out-of-control drug addict,” Lindell once admitted.
The 55-year-old explained that he started abusing cocaine in the 1980s, but switched over to crack in the 1990s. His drug use continued into his company’s earliest days in 2004.
Lindell was divorced for the first time by 2008, and was arrested in January of that year on suspicion of domestic assault. The woman he was dating claimed he had punched and kicked her — even hitting her with “a four-foot wooden dowel,” according to documents obtained by Star.
Lindell denied the allegations, but an order of protection was still issued in the case. He was arrested two months later for violating the order by allegedly taking the woman’s car.
He ultimately pleaded guilty to the order of protection violation, and the assault charge was dismissed due to “credibility issues with the victim.”
Lindell was arrested again in September 2008 in Las Vegas on an outstanding warrant from passing bad checks in a casino eight years prior. The case was dismissed after he agreed to pay $1,230 in restitution.
Later that year he hit his all-time low when his drug dealers staged an intervention for him!
“They were the three biggest dealers in Minneapolis,” he said. “They said I had been awake for 19 straight days. They refused to sell to me again. One of them tried babysitting me until I fell asleep!”
Lindell decided to become sober on Jan. 16, 2009 and “asked God to take away his desire to do drugs.” But, his life was still riddled with scandal after his second marriage to his customer service manager in 2013 ended after just a month.
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Last year, he agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over his MyPillow’s health claims.
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