Texas A&M legend Johnny Manziel and his best friend “Uncle” Nate Fitch were inseparable until they were forced to cut ties in 2013 and never spoke again.

Netflix’s Untold Series featuring Johnny Football has brought Fitch into the spotlight as the mastermind behind Manziel’s shady business venture of signing autographs for hefty paydays during college that nearly got him into some extremely hot water with the NCAA.

“I think I was considered a very risky person, um, for him cause I knew everything,” Fitch told the Untold Series after Manziel removed him from his inner circle. “I just know that I was super loyal and that I contributed everything — mind, body, soul, spirit, to help him.”

Fitch explained in an interview with Overtime just how big Manziel had become during his tenure in College Station as the Aggies’ quarterback.

“We were driving down a road in College Station, and I was just pleading with him – ‘You’re not driving, you’re not driving,'” Fitch recalled. “And so, he drove. Nothing I could do to stop him.

“We were flying down the highway … and we get pulled over. It was just for speeding, he wasn’t swerving. He was just speeding his a–s off. And, uh, we’ve been drinking. I’m not going to speculate whether he was over the legal limit or not but we’d definitely been partying all day.

“We roll down the window and the police officer looks at Johnny and his eyes light up and he goes ‘I’m so sorry Mr. Football. Can we get ya home?'”

The group received a police escort home from the officer, and this is when Fitch said: “The f–king wheels were coming off and there’s nothing I could do.”

Fitch is credited with running Manziel’s autograph business that was netting him $30,000 a month, money that he was hiding under his mattress.

The two split the money 80-20, meaning Fitch was likely netting $6,000 a month in illegal income as a college student.

When the NCAA began investigating Manizel’s lavish lifestyle, Fitch came up with the incredible story that Manziel’s family was extremely wealthy and had oil money.

The spin was a shocking success and something the NCAA clearly bought as he only served a half-game suspension for “failure to stop the commercialization of his name.”

The NCAA did not allow students to profit off their name, image, and likeness at the time, something that has since changed with athletes like Arch Manning, Olivia Dunne, and Angel Reese making millions of dollars in endorsements.

There’s no telling how much Manziel would’ve been worth to the NIL had he been playing now.

But since this was not allowed, Manziel was forced to cut ties with his best friend at the advice of his agent Erik Burkhardt.

“I’m getting approached by agents, knowing if I come back out this year [sophomore year] and recreate even a smidgen of that success, I’m going to have millions of dollars and be the first quarterback taken in the draft,” Manziel said.

“I kinda think like, he felt his role was diminished and kinda pulled away, and i don’t think we’ve spoken again since then,” Manziel said while exhaling.

Manziel says he always wanted to bring Fitch along for the ride with him but his track record was so bad that it was impossible to do so.

“I felt terrible about it but at the same time because of what my track record was, they weren’t gonna me to do that,” Manziel said.

“I didn’t care about the business side of it at all,” Fitch said. “The only thing I was hurting about was that I loved Johnny. He was my best friend.”

Manziel says he was “unbelievably loyal” to his guys, “until you really can’t be anymore.”