I once tracked down snooker legend Jimmy White and found him in a holiday camp… it was like a scene from The Hangover
SNOOKER legend Jimmy White once saw a boozy episode produce a scene like something out of The Hangover.
According to White's former manager Harvey Lisberg, the aptly named Whirlwind was not one to shy away from a drink.
This lifestyle came to a head on one occasion when White's now ex-wife Maureen, and mother of their five kids, reported him missing.
Revealing the story in his book; I’m Into Something Good, Lisberg revealed how a trip to a holiday camp turned into a manhunt for White.
He said: "He disappeared for three days and none of us knew where he had gone.
"I had his wife, Maureen, phoning the office. ‘Where is he? He’s gone off and I’m stuck here looking after the baby and I’ve got bills to pay. What am I meant to do?’
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"She was fuming and she had every right to be. I was the one who had to deal with it.
"I made some phone calls and tracked him down to Pontins, a holiday club in Prestatyn, in north Wales.
"What I found was like a scene from The Hangover," Lisberg recalled after arriving the morning after.
He continued: "I opened the door to find bodies on the floor, bodies on the beds, clothes everywhere, empty bottles and cans all over the place.
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"There were at least eight people in there and it was like a pigsty. That was just the first room.
"I couldn’t see Jimmy, so I stumbled over the carnage into the next room, where there were yet more bodies. And there was Jimmy, out cold.
"He was still in his clothes, so I got hold of him by the collar and pulled him out of bed. ‘What’s going on?’ he croaked as he came to. ‘You’ve got to phone Maureen,’ I said. ‘Now.’
“It was a scenario he was all too familiar with. He and Maureen were constantly at each other’s throats because of his behaviour. He was just incorrigible, either out boozing, womanising or gambling.
"He had a similar attitude to me when it came to money. Jimmy himself had grown up in pubs and seedy establishments.
"He was immersed in the drinking culture, so it was inevitable that he would be a boozer. His life seemed to be one long bender after another.
"I was forever having to extricate him from various self-inflicted scrapes."
White has won ten ranking titles across his snooker career but has never been able to become a world champion despite reaching the final on six occasions.