Carolina Panthers Head Coach Dave Canales he’s been honest about his past mistakes, even putting them on paper for the world to dissect.
Dave, 44, and his wife, Lizzy Canaleshe co-authored a book titled “This Marriage? The Question That Changed Everything,” published in 2022.
“I was living a secret life,” Dave wrote, admitting that he would often lie about his marital status when in public.
“I would go out with my friends and take the ring off, acting like I was single depending on who was around,” Dave continued. “That didn’t happen all the time, but I left a crack in the door for deception.”
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Dave was also open about his history of infidelity, which he said began shortly before the couple walked down the aisle in 2006.
“I cheated on Lizzy for the first time at my bachelor party a month before we got married,” he wrote. “Since the beginning of our relationship, I was drinking excessively and going out with my friends, without Lizzy. Before I was unfaithful to him, it was already in my mind. The bad habits combined with the addiction made it difficult for me to resist the temptation.”
Dave added: “No matter how hard I tried to go to church, read my Bible and pray. I always had a secret, dark place that was just mine.”
The football coach confessed to his wife at a marriage conference. Lizzy remembered asking Dave a specific question about his infidelity.
“I have something difficult to ask you,” he wrote in the book. “Was any of your sexual activity unprotected?”
“Yes,” Dave remembered answering. “Lizzy, I’m so sorry.”
After confessing, Dave and Lizzy were tested for STDs, which came back negative. Soon after, Lizzy found out she was pregnant. (Dave and Lizzy share four children: Ashby, Ben, Bea and Amaya.)
Lizzy wanted specifics about Dave’s cheating, including the women he slept with.
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“She nailed every event,” he said. “I told him what happened and with whom. Some of the women I was involved with were close to home and some far away. I told him the darkest and ugliest secrets of my life, some so dark I don’t want anyone to know.”
Dave added: “Lizzy called out our broken marriage and I made some pretty dark confessions,” Dave wrote. “I needed to stop having sex outside of my marriage and I needed to stop drinking as much as I did… A big part of the broken intimacy I was experiencing with Lizzy was because I was addicted to porn. It was like a gateway drug for me, creating pathways in my brain that allowed me to coldly use sex for my own benefit.”
The couple decided to be brutally honest about their relationship in hopes of helping other relationships in similar peril.
“We had to really think about how exposed we would be as a couple who already existed in a very public profession,” Dave wrote in the book’s foreword. “Sharing our scars meant being willing to tell people the truth about how our marriage failed.”