Jason Hairston’s wife Kirstyn Hairston opened up about the former NFL player's struggle with worsening symptoms related to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) just weeks before his suicide. He retired in 1996 at 24 due to neck problems, but began showing symptoms of CTE shortly after, his wife said. “I don’t know what flipped all of the sudden; he wasn’t depressed, we didn’t have any sort of those troubles going on,” Kirstyn said. “I don’t know. I don’t know what happened to him those two hours after I talked to him and we were laughing on the phone.

Source: Fox News September 09, 2018 16:30 UTC