Karwai Tang/WireImageNick Young and dolphins do not mix.
In a recent locker room interview with ESPN, the Lakers guard recounted a scary story that took place while he and his rapper girlfriend Iggy Azalea were playing with dolphins during a vacation in Cabo San Luca.
"A dolphin tried to kill me for some reason," the 29-year-old sports star said. "He was playing with everybody else, doing what dolphins do—the 'ack, ack' and all that. It was my time to ride the dolphin. For some reason, he took me all the way to the bottom. He was trying to drown me. But I saw it happening so I jumped out of the water and took off the little life vest and threw off my little water shoes and stayed outside."
When asked why the dolphin was trying to harm him, Young continued, "He was trying to kill me. I think he was trying to get at Iggy. He was a little friendly, kissing her and stuff. He was trying to take my woman."
The stuff of nightmares.
Iggy recently confirmed Young's scary dolphin story. "Nick is scared of Dolphins," she tweeted the other day. "A dolphin in Cabo tried to kill him once. I was there and to be fair, it's true. Now he won't go on the wild dolphin snorkel tour. Lol."