'Bad guy' Tyson spills beans on 'infamous' drug-fuelled orgy days

American boxing legend Mike Tyson has said that he was once out of control in his career, drinking, gorging on food and having sex with women.

According to the New York Post, Tyson's promiscuity caught up with him in July 1991, when a beauty-pageant contestant named Desiree Washington accused him of raping her in a hotel room in Indianapolis.

Tyson was already partying hard and dating both Naomi Campbell and Miss America runner-up Suzette Charles, plus having sex with dozens of women a week when, at 21 years old, he met actress Robin Givens, the report said.

By November 2005, the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world was a disgraced fighter, most notorious for having bitten off a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 fight, the report added.

Tyson was so promiscuous that he would pick up any woman around, including, once, a 50-something cashier at Kmart, the report further said.

He was petrified that he had AIDS, yet he was sleeping at strip clubs and having unprotected sex with hookers, according to the report.

Now 47 years old, he still hopes for a happy ending, but he knows he may never get there, the report mentioned.

Tyson said that he still has a lot of work to do, adding that he has to try to really love himself.