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HENRY: "I'VE LOST EVERYTHING IN THIS MESS I'VE GOTTEN MYSELF INTO"

Posted by Aaron Wilson on March 12, 2009, 11:38 a.m.

Troubled former Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry owes $170,000 annually in child support for his nine children and is unemployed as he remains under house arrest due to a pending cocaine trafficking charge, according to the New York Times.

The 30-year-old former NFL star's children are ages 3 to 11, and all of them have separate mothers. Henry says he can't afford to keep up with the child support payments.

"They've got my blood; I've got to deal with it," Henry told the Times. "I love all my kids. I've lost everything in this mess I've gotten myself into."

Henry said he didn't plan the children with one exception, and was informed by some of the mothers that they were on birth control only to learn that they weren't.

"I did use protection at first," Henry said. "Then they'd be saying they'd be on the pill. I was an idiot to trust them. Second or third time with them, I didn't use it. Then, boom!

"My counselor asks me, 'How can you do the same thing over and over?' Knock on wood, or something, I'm blessed not to have AIDS. That never crossed my mind."

Henry declined to discuss the drug case, which is set for an arraignment next month.

UPDATE: According to ESPN's Outside the Lines' program, Henry recently became the father of twin girls, upping his total to 11 children with 9 different women and Tawny Kitaen. [Editor's note: On the bright side, he can now expand his baseball team to a football team.]