"This was not a cry for help. Junie tried to end his life. People on the forums treat fighters like we're cartoon characters, but it's not like that. We are human. This is his life and I feel like I almost lost a son last night."

"He was supposed to take one pill a day [of his prescribed medicine], he had taken between 16 and 20. We put him in the truck and drove him to the hospital right away where I admitted him immediately."
"We noticed his mood and temperament started to change and he was becoming agitated and aggressive. He was moved into a room and the nurses explained they were going to have to pump his stomach.
"By the time we left and got to the end of the hall, there were police running down the hall. Apparently, Junie struck three nurses and said something along the lines of, ‘Don't you know who I am? I will kill you and rape your family.'
"I can say that that's not Junie Browning. He can't take words like that back, but he took an excessive amount of drugs." - Shawn Tompkins

Junie Browning's coach, Shawn Tompkins spoke with Fighters Only Magazine about Tuesday night's incident, which involved Browning being hospitalized with an attempted drug overdose, being arrested for battery and, subsequently, being dropped from the UFC.

Tompkins confirmed that Browning had attempted suicide on Tuesday night, and the event was not just a cry for help from the fighter.

Browning was released on Wednesday and is currently stay with Tompkins and his family.