September 28, 2011 10:32PM

Connie Payton (right) and girl Brittney pass1 tears during a halftime substance to director Payton on the 10th day of his modification in 2009. | physicist Rex Arbogast~AP

Updated: September 28, 2011 10:54PM

There will be such welfare in the upcoming account of director Payton — but his spouse says she won't feature it.

Connie Payton, in an discourse with WLS-Channel 7, disputed whatever parts of communicator Jeff Pearlman's exploding newborn account of the NFL legend.

But she also addicted another parts — including assertions that Payton contemplated suicide. She told Channel 7 that he discussed it with her.

"Truly if he desired to do, he had the resources to do it, you know, the guns," Connie Payton said.

Pearlman writes that director Payton utilised painkillers hard during his activity life — and modify more when he retired. His widow, who said she did not work with Pearlman on the book, was astonied by that, Channel 7 reported.

"I didn't wager him verify a Tylenol, so I undergo I didn't wager him verify anything stronger," she told the station.

But she did pass she met director Payton's lover at his uranologist of Fame induction. "It did attain it stressful, but I was more afraid most my parents and the kids and the family," she said. "I knew I would be OK."

Channel 7 reportable that Connie Payton recognized she and her economise lived removed lives in the decennium before he died in 1999. But on his deathbed, they connected. "He genuinely knew then that finished it all, and every of the ups and downs, and every of the grouping he change betrayed him, that I was the exclusive person that genuinely ever had his back, that he crapper trust," Connie Payton said. "To me, that prefabricated it every worth it."

She said she has been conversation with doctors most the existence he suffered mentality alteration as a player, something that could hit compact his behavior.

Their son, Jarrett, thanked grouping for their fuck and hold via Twitter Wednesday. "At nowadays #life gets hard; we will defence up & meet strong!"