M. Tyson (photo) had a troubled childhood and related life stories in a recent biography. Photo: Reproduction
Former heavyweight champion and considered one of the greatest boxers of all time, Mike Tyson He had a life story marked by great controversies and also several personal and family problems. During a recent interview with a North American radio station, Tyson opened up once again and reported another drama he experienced in his childhood. The fighter reported an episode of sexual abuse experienced when he was just seven years old.
“He picked me up on the street. I was a little boy… He was an older man. He intimidated me, sexually abused me, that sort of thing. I never saw him again. I moved on with my life. I don't know if this changed anything in me or not. Sometimes I remember, sometimes I don't. But I don’t feel humiliated or embarrassed to talk about it,” Tyson told the “Opie Radio” program on Sirius XM radio. The former boxer also revealed that out of fear he never filed a complaint with the police.
The troubled life of Mike Tyson, a professional boxer between 1985 and 2005, was recently reported in the biographical book “Indisputable Truth”, in which she tells, among other stories, her involvement in crimes as a child after her mother became unemployed, the difficulties of never having met her biological father or the man who recorded it and an episode with great repercussion in which he revealed that he had caught actor Brad Pitt in bed with his ex-wife, and that the heartthrob had begged not to be beaten after the incident.
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