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In an emotional interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mike Tyson claimed to be a new man - one focused on his family. The former heavyweight boxing champion feared that the erratic behavior that has dominated his life for two decades would kill him within two years if he returned to it.
Tyson opened up about most of his headline-grabbing actions over the years, including his years in prison, his tempestuous eight-month marriage to Robin Givens, his long addiction to drugs, the $400 million fortune he squandered, the 1997 comeback match in which he bit Evander Holyfield's ear, and -- for the first time -- the death of his 4-year-old daughter earlier this year.
The key development in Tyson's life stems from what seems to be a newfound self-awareness following his participation in the movie "Tyson," a do entary about his life filmed as he went through rehab two years ago. "If I'm not conscious of who I am, I'm just going to let myself run [wild], and I'm going to destroy my beautiful family, and I'm going to destroy myself, and I don't want to go down that road any more," he said.
Tyson ranged from terse to surprisingly candid as Winfrey asked the fallen champion about his checkered past, and he delivered eye-opening quotes about Givens and Holyfield while remaining somewhat tightlipped about the specifics of his daughter's death.
On choosing not to know the details of his daughter's accidental death: "I don't know. I don't want to know. If I know ... [then] somebody's to blame for it, and if somebody's to blame for it, there are going to be problems." The quote seems to insinuate that he doesn't want to be mad at his ex-wife or any of his other children who might be found at fault for the freak accident in which daughter Exodus was found unconscious and tangled in a cord hanging from an exercise machine.
On the "20/20" interview in which he sat idly while Givens called him manic-depressive and said that life with Tyson was "pure " and "torture": Tyson explained that the marriage was abusive "both ways" -- that he battered Givens, but that she abused him emotionally.
On the Holyfield incident: "I was pissed off that he was such a great fighter ... I was just mad at him." Tyson said that after the incident, "I didn't feel guilty at all," and that the apology he delivered "wasn't sincere."
On why he hasn't spoken to Holyfield since: "I see him sometimes, I think he's a little leery of me." Tyson added, "I just want to apologize. I've known him for such a long time, and I was just undisciplined. I was in a very compe ive mood and I wanted so desperately to beat him for my own self-aggrandizement, and I was just upset."
On whether his current family-oriented, monogamous life is boring: "I know I don't have two more years to live if I live this life." (By "this life," he means his former hard-living world of drugs, women, and bankruptcy.)
In all, Tyson was more candid than most athletes are willing to be in today's professional-sports landscape. But then, Mike Tyson has a lot more baggage to unload, too.
http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/tearful-mik...f-failing--690
Do not get me started on this .
Please do.
Seriously though, alot of folks get on her show and she makes them turn on the water faucet. WTF
She's a disgusting human being. The only water faucet I'd give is a golden shower.Please do.
Seriously though, alot of folks get on her show and she makes them turn on the water faucet. WTF
I'd pay to see that.
I'd love to be in the audience to witness that.
Yeah, I watched some of that Tyson interview. Wanted to slap the outta her for some of the questions she was asking.
Black on black crime.
It would only be worth it if B2B held it and gave her a strong first morning one that would sting the the eyes of the first 2 rows!I'd love to be in the audience to witness that.
Hey!!! What's all this hating on Okrah???
I love fried Okra.
oprah aside. it seems as if it was an interesting interview. as nuts as he has been, tyson has proven to be extraordinarily frank at times, almost disturbingly so.
Oprah sucks as an interviewer
Oprah is a .
I've been on Oprah's show. She's very y and bossy and treats the staff like slaves. And some of them do cry.
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Did she make you cry too?
I know someone who was on the Maury Povich show. Test results proved that he is the daddy. They made him cry.
don't hate the player, hate the game
In 2003 Oprah did a show from BAMC about deployments, wounded soldiers, and their families. I was invited to attend as a guest of Gen. Fox who was the commanding general at the time. She didn't make me cry, but I cried anyway because of the sad stories some of the soldiers and their families told. Oprah cried too. But she managed to order everyone around like a general. But not like General Fox, because he was a very cool guy.
I haven't cried in over 6 years.
Of course not. Only pussies cry.
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