Although entirely different companies, the same type of scandal that is rocking the partnership a permanent A list gymnast has with a company is the same thing that you will soon be seeing between the ginger haired one and a mental healthy company.

Simone Biles
Cerebral

Prince Harry
BetterUp

Simone Biles and mental health start-up Cerebral end endorsement partnership

Superstar US gymnast Simone Biles and tele-health provider Cerebral have ended an endorsement partnership, the company announced on Tuesday, bringing to a close a deal in which the 25-year-old Olympic champion used her own mental health experience to promote the controversial mental health startup.

Biles became Cerebral’s “chief impact officer” three months after her dramatic withdrawal from individual competition at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 saying she was “not in the right head space” to compete.

The athlete, who won four gold medals and a bronze at her first Olympic in 2016, was then approached by Celebral in a tie-up with Biles’s own mental health advocacy platform. The terms of the deal were never disclosed.

The split between Biles and Celebral comes seven months after the company received a subpoena from federal investigators over its prescribing practices of controlled substances, including the amphetamine Adderall and other stimulants used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.

Cerebral’s nurse practitioners have said they felt pressured by the company to prescribe stimulants after a 30-minute evaluation. The major pharmacy chains CVS and Walmart later announced they would no longer fill the company’s prescriptions for controlled prescription drugs. – Source

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