Distraught Strawberry Tells Judge ‘Life Hasn’t Been Worth Living’

New York Yankee slugger Darryl Strawberry, under double assault from fierce drug addiction and colon cancer, stood in shackles before a judge Friday and matter-of-factly said he wanted to die.

“Life hasn’t been worth living for me, that’s the honest truth,” he told Circuit Judge Florence Foster. “I am not afraid of death.”

The eight-time all-star told the judge he quit his chemotherapy, which makes him sick for days after a treatment, because it was too much to handle while behind bars.

Strawberry, 38, was in court for violating his house arrest by leaving an exclusive treatment center Oct. 25 to use drugs with a female friend. He was suspended from baseball for one year last February after testing positive for cocaine.

During a pause in the proceedings, Strawberry addressed Foster: “Judge, there’s something I want to say. The last couple of weeks of my life have been downhill. I basically wanted to die.

“At the time I would rather just go ahead and kill myself. I couldn’t kill myself because of the fact of my five children. I started to look at them and that wouldn’t be fair to them for me to kill myself that way.”

Strawberry asked the judge to be released, but Foster delayed a decision until Thursday so she can hear from Strawberry’s oncologist and psychiatrist.