From www.newsoftheworld.com- Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps plunged into bed with a pair of strippers – then bragged of getting out of his head on dope.

But lapdancer Theresa White last night revealed how CRY BABY Phelps instantly changed his tune when the News of the World published shocking pictures of him puffing on a marijuana bong as he celebrated his record Beijing gold medal haul.

In an exclusive interview, Theresa told us: “I saw Michael after the photos were published in February and he got really upset. He turned to me and said, ‘I can’t believe that happened. I’m terrified my career will be over.’ He was almost in tears.”

After all the glory of scooping eight golds at the China games the drugs scandal earned American swim star Phelps a three-month ban, which ended this week.

He celebrated his return to sport on Tuesday and dived straight in. . . to bed with sexy Theresa, 25.

Afterwards she said: “I think the whole thing’s made Michael paranoid. Since the story got out I’ve seen him tell friends that he’ll throw their mobile camera phones in the river if he sees them using them around him.

“I guess he’s scared someone else will snap a picture of him doing something he shouldn’t.”

And she confided that he has an Olympic-size stash of secrets he’d rather keep dark, like how he:

* TRIED to buy more cannabis to keep HER happy.
* INDULGES his fantasies with a string of beauties constantly on call for sex.
* CHEWS tobacco and litters his home with foul makeshift spittoons.
* LOVES to bet and yearns to be a professional poker hustler.
* BLUBS at the drop of a hat and is a real mummy’s boy.

Theresa, just five feet tall and dwarfed by 6ft 4ins Phelps, recalled how they first met at a strip club where she works in his home town of Baltimore, Maryland, on a drunken night out last November-the same month our famous bong pictures were taken.

Boozy Phelps invited the 34D Latina and several of her lapdancing pals back to his £1.1 million waterfront apartment. “Michael came in with a bunch of friends to celebrate,” said Theresa.

“They were there a couple of hours and asked three of us back. Michael was a bad tipper but he was nice to me, although he was kind of mean and cocky to some of the girls.

“He said he liked short girls and I thought that was funny because he’s so tall. At the his place we started playing drinking games. Two hours later I was pretty drunk and I went up to Michael and said, ‘If you were to have a threesome tonight, who would you like it to be with?’ He told me he’d never had one before but said it would be with me and then pointed at another girl.

“Everybody else stayed put while we went upstairs and jumped into bed.

“The sex lasted for about three hours. Michael should get another Olympic gold for marathon love-making!”

After that first night of passion 23-year-old Phelps often returned to Theresa’s club. She said they met two or three times a week throughout November and December for sex and intimate chats.

And Phelps brazenly boasted to Theresa of his dope-smoking exploits. She said: “He told me he’d done marijuana since he got back from Beijing. And he tried to get some for me one night but couldn’t find any.”

Strangely, Phelps always refused to take Theresa out in public on a proper date-apart from one time he treated her to a “value deal” meal at Mexican fast food chain Taco Bell. “That was it,” she said. “He just bought me some soft tacos. No romantic candlelit dinner. He HAD said he’d take me to The Capital Grille which is one of the city’s swankiest restaurants, but it never happened. And he’s supposed to be a millionaire!

“I never saw his medals either. He doesn’t have a lot of stuff in his house. It’s bare, there’s no food. Just a pantry full of candy and a fridge full of beer.”

Soon Theresa tired of Phelps’ tight-fisted ways-and the fact he wouldn’t publicly acknowledge her as his girlfriend. “He was trying to hide his relationship with me, probably because of my job,” she said. “It didn’t bother me at first but then it started to. He tried to tell me he really liked me but I knew he just wanted sex.

“Then he became hard to get hold of and wouldn’t call back. When I ran into another girl called Jen at a party it turned out he was sleeping with BOTH of us. And I’ve heard that there are at least five or six girls he can call on any time to come over and be with him.

“Michael’s not the all-American boy the public thinks he is. I never saw him smoke marijuana but he was into booze-and chewing tobacco. When he’s been drinking that’s usually when he starts crying. He cries a lot.

“And he chews tobacco like a sailor. It’s disgusting. All over his house are plastic bottles that he spits it into.”

Theresa said she has seen Phelps just a handful of times since Christmas. “During his suspension he wasn’t really in the greatest shape,” she told us.

“He was losing his muscles and got into online poker. He’d just pretty much play that all the time. He gambled a lot for money. One of his goals is to be a poker champ.” On Tuesday the pair were reunited as Phelps celebrated the end of his suspension.

“We’d been texting each other sporadically,” said Theresa. “And Michael said he was alone at a hotel while his house was getting fixed.

“He said, ‘You can come over if you like.’ Then he sent me about 15 messages in 10 minutes asking when I was arriving. He had three friends there, all playing poker online on their laptops.

“When I got to the suite I went to the bathroom and Michael followed me in even though his friends were sitting there just a few feet away.

“He started to kiss me and we had sex. He said he definitely wasn’t doing weed now and hadn’t even been drinking as he was getting back in shape.”

Fun

Despite everything, Theresa is happy to be a sex buddy on call for the athlete, whose product endorsements alone are estimated to pull in more than £3 million a year.

“He’s a person I can just hook up with and it doesn’t bother me,” she said. “But I don’t see a future between us. His mother would never approve.

“What she thinks really matters to him. She’s so strait-laced and they’d both be concerned that someone like me would hurt his career.

“Michael’s definitely a Momma’s boy. He talks about her a lot, and he calls her and texts her a lot. She’s probably the most important person in his life. It’s hard to compete.

“But Michael is a young guy who likes to have fun. He might not be doing marijuana any more but he sure likes to party. That’ll never change.”