Boxer Tommy Fury defends the accusations he made of lying to the BBC as he battles his inner circle and reclaims his career.
At the start of last year Tommy Fury seemed to have it all – love with Molly Mae Hague, a beautiful baby daughter and victory over his biggest adversary Jake Paul. But a fight in January 2024 saw him damage his hand and, unable to train, his life quickly spiralled out of all control.
The boxer has opened up about his drinking woes, hitting “rock bottom,” and how he has rekindled his relationship with his fiancee and two-year-old Bambi as the launch of a new fly-on-the-wall documentary series.
The opening episode shows his dad and boxing trainer, John, admitting that he urged Molly to leave Tommy, believing it was necessary to sober him up. “I mean, I probably would’ve walked away from me too,” Tommy said. “It was a tough moment in my life, but everything happens for a reason.
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I’m grateful for the lessons I’ve learned, but I don’t believe I would have known half of what I know about myself if I haven’t experienced that.
Molly, who met Tommy on Love Island, walked out on him amid rumours of cheating, which he denies, and out-of-control boozing, which he doesn’t. Now the couple’s social media accounts reveal they’ve patched up their relationship, but in the opening episode, the cameras show Tommy home alone as he faces up to his demons.
The 26-year-old claims that after his injury prevented him from boxing for more than a year, he turned to binge drinking. I had enough drink to last me a lifetime in 2024, “he says”. You discover that all you can do is sit down for a while and then a few of them (drinks) and voila! You forget what’s happening and where you are. And sometimes you want that feeling all the time, and that’s where obviously it starts.
“Now, when I look at that person from back then, I don’t even recognise that guy. It’s just not me. Back then, I didn’t really care about anything. It was like the world going by, wasn’t bothered, and that’s just not me.”
He is not teetotal, but says he’s barely touching alcohol. If it’s a wedding or something similar, I might have a few drinks going forward. Nobody should be doing it more than four or five times per week.
As predicted by John, the turning point came when Molly and Bambi moved out. When I woke up one morning, everything was gone. The baby and Molly had left. That was the moment I thought, ‘ wow, what’s going on? He sadly recalls “,” And that’s when I first started trying to make changes.
Speaking to the Mirror earlier this month, once filming on the series had ended, he said he’d found it difficult being in his Cheshire mansion without the rest of his family. He spent a lot of time “sitting in a big dark room” by himself. “That’s what I was doing most days. When you’re in a big house all by yourself, you think about a lot of things, and you wish you could never go down that road, but it’s happened.”
He had denied all the boozing and bad behavior up until that point. “You think, ‘ oh no, nothing’s wrong. There is no issue with that. I’m having fun with myself. But it is a problem, and everybody else can see it apart from you. When you accept that and move on, you can begin healing from it.
He claims that Molly was the better mother for Bambi than Molly, who later made the decision to take him back. She’s absolutely fantastic”. He declares, “She’s the best mother in the world,” saying that he would like to have more children. She is the best mother I could have chosen because she juggles a lot, and she’s always there.
Tommy, half-brother of fellow boxer Tyson, claims he didn’t respond to the “lies” written about him cheating – and even getting another woman pregnant – because he hadn’t needed to. “I don’t have to go around shouting from the rooftops because it’s all bull***t. I live my life for me. Let all the bull***t carry on. As long as my family and myself and Jesus know who I am, I don’t care about anything else.”
He did claim that being so closely watched in both his professional and personal life had been difficult. “To go through that on a personal level is one thing, but to go through that in front of the whole world, I’m being looked at under a microscope, it adds a new pressure”.
After achieving this level of fame with Love Island, he turned to television, hoping that the new series will give viewers a more “authentic” perspective of who he is as he attempts to resurrect his career following hand surgery.
“I’ve never let anything back,” I said. Everything’s raw and everything’s out there”, he insists. Let people see the “rock bottom” for what it is, and let them see how far I can go, because I’m going to return to the top. I’ve never really climbed past the top.
Tommy said that the healing process has helped him to find a more spiritual side of himself. I’ve started walking right away, something I didn’t initially anticipate doing. I enjoy rising at four or five in the morning and ascending a mountain at sunrise.
He hopes viewers will come away with a sense of self-assurance and “normal” persona, surrounded by trustworthy friends who haven’t just been looking for money.
He explains that “I don’t think of myself as anything other than what I am, because I am not.” “I think of myself as kid out of Salford who’s done all right. Because I don’t possess super talent, I live proof that anyone who wants to achieve anything can do it.
Because I wouldn’t accept no for an answer, I may not be the best boxer out there, but I’ve accomplished everything I wanted.
The sportsman said he took to becoming a dad at just 23 quite naturally, which surprised him”. Nothing else came into play as soon as I gave birth to her, “he says simply,” and I held her in my arms. If I lose this one, I believe my world will collapse if I enter it. Like there’d be nothing left. But, God willing, I still have her if the worst were to occur. Nothing else matters once you have children.
Tommy, who is 26 years old, says he is no longer motivated to work for himself. I’m not interested in making up my mind. Even all the money I’m getting now for fights and deals and stuff, that’s not spent on me, that’s spent on giving my daughter, and future kids, the best life I can give them. “
Although he and his brothers have followed John into boxing, he doesn’t think Bambi should pursue that as a career. He says, “Boxing will be a big no for me.” Is that a bit sexist”? He argues, “No, definitely not.” Simply put, I am aware of how many black eyes you have. I know the bloody noses you get. She doesn’t need to spend that many nights in A&, E, because I am aware of how many I have.
Bambi, on the other hand, seems to enjoy having the cameras nearby. She regularly enjoys brushing her dad’s hair and painting his nails, which Tommy happily goes along with”. He “funs,” she does all kinds. My favorite times are during these. There’s nothing that I love doing more than that. She has been the best thing in my life ten times, and I just want to be a dad now so she can be proud.
“I believe that’s the biggest thing moving forward, and I owe it to Molly, everyone else, to be the best version of myself that I can be,” she said.
Tommy: The Good. The Bad. The Fury. Tuesday 19 August, BBC Three/BBC iPlayer
Source: Mirror
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