George Floyd struggled with opioid addiction: girlfriend

George Floyd’s girlfriend said Thursday that both struggled with opioid addiction for years — and said Floyd relapsed shortly before his police custody death on May 25.

Courteney Batya Ross, 45, also testified at the murder trial of ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in Floyd’s death that he was a changed man after his mother’s death in 2018.

“Floyd’s what I would call a mama’s boy,” she said during often emotional testimony. “When he came back home he seemed kind of like a shell of himself. He was broken.”

She said his mother’s death fueled one of several relapses into drug use that marred much of their three-year relationship.