Anti-virus inventor John McAfee claims one of his ‘enemies’ tried to poison him, leaving him in a two-day coma.
McAfee posted the bizarre tweet along with photos of himself recovering in Vidant Medical Center in North Carolina on Friday.
‘I apologize for my three day absence but I was unconscious for two days… and just woke up,’ he wrote. ‘My enemies maged(sic) to spike something that i ingested.
‘However, I am more difficult to kill than anyone can possibly imagine. I am back.’
Anti-virus inventor John McAfee claims one of his ‘enemies’ tried to poison him, leaving him in a two-day coma
‘I apologize for my three day absence but I was unconscious for two days… and just woke up,’ he tweeted, adding that his food or drink had been ‘spiked’
He also threatened to exact revenge on whoever was behind the alleged plot
He also threatened to exact revenge on whoever was behind the alleged plot.
‘And for those who did this – You will soon understand the true meaning of wrath. I know exactly who you are. Youh(sic) had better be gone,’ he continued.
The 72-year-old has become as renowned for his eccentricities and run ins wit the law, in recent years, as he has for founding anti-virus company McAfee Associates in 1987.
Last September, the tech executive went on a naked shooting spree round his Tennessee home because he believed men sent by the Belize government were breaking in.
He believes the Central American nation wants him dead because he hacked in and stole secret government information.
McAfee posted this photo of himself which reportedly shows him recovering in Vidant Medical Center in North Carolina on Friday
McAfee had been having sex with his ex-prostitute wife Janice, 34, when he said he heard his dogs barking, and heard movement in the crawl space above.
He began firing his gun into the walls of his home, Newsweek reports.
The gunshots woke Alex Handrick, who lived below the couple in a basement apartment and worked as a security guard for the building who called the cops. The commotion was also under FBI investigation.
The incident is just one among many in McAfee’s tumultuous life since he sold the company in the 1990s for roughly $100million, according to the magazine.
Lovebirds: John McAfee and Janice Dyson met in 2012 and married in 2013
After making the sale he quickly spent his fortune on nine luxurious homes, multiple planes, vintage cars, expensive art and other oddities – such as a dinosaur skull.
But in 2009 he allegedly lost most of his money in the financial crisis. McAfee denies going broke, but nonetheless liquidated his assets and moved to Belize.
McAfee has also been wrapped up in his fare share of scandal. He was the subject of a 2016 Showtime documentary which details his two alleged murders and rape.
He accuses the director of ‘Gringo: The Dangerous life of John McAfee,’ Nate Burnstein, of ‘forcing interviews’ and ‘bribing’ people to lie, according to News.Au.
While living in Belize he allegedly became increasingly paranoid and rarely came out of the house.
When he did, though, he surrounded himself with young women – mostly former prostitutes and an entourage of armed body guards.
His home was raided in 2012 by the Belize Police Gang Suppression Unit because he was suspected of cooking meth, but no drugs were found and he was never charged.
McAfee believes the raid was part of a conspiracy theory to ‘destroy him,’ because he refused to be extorted by the Belize government.
McAfee told Newsweek he is being stalked by the Belize government, and claims they want to kill him because he hacked in and stole secret government information
Partners in ‘Crime’: John and Janice McAfee seen in a spoof video from 2013, in which they poke fun at John McAfee’s wild-man image
He was accused of murder seven months after McAfee’s neighbor Gregory Faull, an American, was shot near his home. Police believed it was McAfee because they allegedly butted heads over the inventor’s vicious guard dogs.
When police tried to question McAfee he had already fled the country. He went to Guatemala, where he was arrested on December 5, 2012, and deported to the United States.
McAfee was never indicted on any charges because he has been avoiding the Belize authorities ever since.
He allegedly met his wife Janice on the day he touched down in the United States.
McAfee and Janice have lived in ‘constant fear’ of his assassination by the Belize government, and said he has ‘information’ he hacked and stole from the government after they raided his compound.
Belize authorities told Newsweek that claim is ‘utter nonsense,’ and the ‘ravings of a sick mind.’
Last December, he wrote that his Twitter account had been hacked, writing ‘I have haters, I am a target.’
The ‘hackers’ shared a tweet about the ‘coin of the day’ to promote lesser-known virtual currencies to his 550,000 followers.
The British-born inventor built his reputation in cyber-security, with his first anti-virus software launched in the 1980s.
After resigning from his position at McAfee Associates in 1994, he sold his remaining stake in the company on 1996.
Intel bought McAfee in 2010 and removed the McAfee name from the products.
The business mogul is no stranger to controversy, becoming an international fugitive in 2012 as he fled from Belize police over the murder of his neighbour.
Four years later he ran for President of the United States as a representative for the Libertarian party – and achieved their best ever result.
He now operates MGT Capital which works to assess the value of cryptocurrencies.