--- title: Simone Biles: ADHD Medication Is Nothing to Be Ashamed Of description: It's "nothing that I'm afraid to let people know," the Olympian said canonical: https://time.com/4490680/simone-biles-adhd-medication/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T01:03:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:22.587Z og:title: Simone Biles Says Her ADHD Medication Is 'Nothing to Be Ashamed Of' og:description: It's 'nothing that I'm afraid to let people know,' the Olympian said og:url: https://time.com/4490680/simone-biles-adhd-medication/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3a3b06587c05986/6988a5e85f570f716ab2282c/simone-biles.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: The Rio 2016 Olympic Games og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Simone Biles Says Her ADHD Medication Is 'Nothing to Be Ashamed Of' twitter:description: It's 'nothing that I'm afraid to let people know,' the Olympian said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3a3b06587c05986/6988a5e85f570f716ab2282c/simone-biles.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Simone Biles Says Her ADHD Medication Is 'Nothing to Be Ashamed Of' > Sponsored content. 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Simone Biles of the United States competes during the Women's Individual All Around Final on Day 6 of the 2016 Rio Olympics at Rio Olympic Arena on August 11, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dmitriy Korotaev—Kommersant / Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Sep 14, 2016 1:03 AM UTC Olympic gold medalist [Simone Biles](http://motto.time.com/4489198/simone-biles-aly-raisman-boys/) was among the athletes whose medical records were [hacked and released](http://time.com/4490432/russian-hackers-athlete-medical-record-simone-biles/), and the World Anti-Doping Agency’s documents revealed that the athlete was approved to take a drug that is typically prohibited, but did not say what that drug was. USA Gymnastics released a statement reassuring the public that Biles had followed the correct protocol, and Biles posted her own statements on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Simone%5FBiles/status/775783400808583169?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) explaining the situation. “I have ADHD and have taken medicine for it since I was a kid,” Biles wrote. “Please know, I believe in clean sport, have always followed the rules, and will continue to do so as fair play is critical to sport and is very important to me.” In a follow-up [tweet](https://twitter.com/Simone%5FBiles/status/775785767855611905?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw), Biles wrote, “Having ADHD, and taking medicine for it is nothing to be ashamed of nothing that I’m afraid to let people know.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4490680/simone-biles-adhd-medication/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4490680/simone-biles-adhd-medication/"},"headline":"Simone Biles Says Her ADHD Medication Is 'Nothing to Be Ashamed Of'","datePublished":"2016-09-14T01:03:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:22.587Z","description":"It's 'nothing that I'm afraid to let people know,' the Olympian said","url":"https://time.com/4490680/simone-biles-adhd-medication/","keywords":["motto","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3a3b06587c05986/6988a5e85f570f716ab2282c/simone-biles.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3a3b06587c05986/6988a5e85f570f716ab2282c/simone-biles.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Rio 2016 Olympic Games","caption":"The Rio 2016 Olympic Games","creditText":"Dmitriy Korotaev—Kommersant / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4490680/simone-biles-adhd-medication/","name":"Simone Biles Says Her ADHD Medication Is 'Nothing to Be Ashamed Of'"}}]}] ```