New York Post

JOHNNY BE GOOD... IN A COUPLE OF DAYS

- By YARON STEINBUCH

It’s Johnny’s last hurrah! Or so he says.

Johnny Manziel has called an audible on his life of drugs and booze — vowing to clean up his wild act by Friday.

The out-of-work QB — who was spotted puffing on a suspicious-looking cigarette in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, told TMZ that he’s “going completely sober starting July 1st” and beginning training to return to the NFL.

A day after taunting his dad with an Instagram photo showing him perched on the edge of a pool in Cabo, the flamed-out Heisman Trophy winner denied knowing a woman whose own social-media post insinuated Manziel’s drug use.

The Snapchat image shows a gal holding several baggies of what appears to be cocaine, along with a tube of sunscreen on her lap — though she doesn’t suggest that they belong to Manziel.

“They’re absolutely not mine. I don’t even know that girl,” Manziel, 23, who is shacking up with 20 people — including Playboy’s Miss May 2015 Daisy Lea — in a $3,900-a-night Cabo manse, told TMZ.

But with his words carrying as much weight as his gridiron record, no one would be blamed for brushing off his latest Hail Mary.

In his spread-armed Instagram post, wearing the No. 12 jersey of former Cleveland Browns teammate Josh Gordon, he declared: “I won’t take this thing off for a week. You my brother FOR LIFE. JUST WAIT ON THIS COMEBACK!!!!”

He added the hashtag #HiDad to troll his exasperate­d father, Paul, who last week told ESPN, “He’s a druggie. It’s not a secret that he’s a druggie. I don’t know what to say other than my son is a druggie and he needs help.”

The unhinged Manziel, who was waived by the Browns in March, faces a $4,000 fine and up to a year in jail if he’s convicted of domestic violence for allegedly assaulting ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley.

He also has been in two car crashes and is being sued for allegedly trashing a luxury home in the Hollywood hills.

Manziel’s attorney, Bon Hinton, withdrew from the assault case after accidental­ly texting The Associated Press that Manziel had bought $1,000 worth of drug parapherna­lia after one hit-and-run crash.

“Heaven help us if one of the conditions is to pee in a bottle,” the attorney wrote in the errant text about Manziel’s hopes to strike a plea deal.

 ??  ?? HIGH THERE! Troubled ex-NFLer Johnny Manziel, who swears he’s getting clean starting Friday, puffs on a dubious “cigarette” this week in Mexico.
HIGH THERE! Troubled ex-NFLer Johnny Manziel, who swears he’s getting clean starting Friday, puffs on a dubious “cigarette” this week in Mexico.

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