NFL star explains why he purchased separate homes to 'stop having sex'

NFL veteran Jameis Winston has explained why he decided to purchase a second home to practice celibacy.

The 32-year-old may not have hit the heights with the New York Giants, but he will be hoping to repeat the form that made him so influential at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

And while he was in the form of his life, Winston was practicing celibacy as a way to hold himself accountable off the field.

The NFL star recently appeared on Travis Kelce's New Heights podcast and revealed he bought a second home to help him abstain from sex during one of the most important NFL seasons in his career.

Winston told Travis and Jason Kelce that he was having 'one of the most up-and-down years off the field' after his wife asked him 'to marry me and I was doing this freaking celibacy thing'.

The NFL star purchased a second home (Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)

He was living with his then-fiancée, Breion, and their son at the time. Winston recalled his parents talking to him about 'shacking', a term often used to describe a couple who live together before getting married.

"I was like, 'We have to eliminate that'," Winston explained on the podcast. "So I literally bought a property and stayed away from my house."

Winston went on to state that his father was going through a difficult time back then - meaning he was unable to attend his son's NFL games.

"It was the first year in my life that my dad wasn't coming to any of my football games," the sports star added to the Kelce brothers.

"My uncle had passed, he was going through some things with COVID and my grandmother passed a year before. So my dad was dealing with some things, man."

Jamies Winston also opened up on family life during the podcast (Kara Durrette/Getty Images)

Winston continued: "So, just spiritually, the family, we just were going through it. And I was having a great game or I was having a not so great game. And it was coinciding with what was happening off the field."

Elsewhere in the podcast, Winston went on to discuss the advice he's offering younger players now that he's in his twilight years.

"That's why when I talked to these young athletes, I asked them, ‘What are you consistently doing outside of the building too?’ Because if you are consistently being up and down outside of the building it's gonna come on the field," he said.

And Winston's experience will surely only help the youngsters in the locker room navigate the challenges they may face in the NFL.