Mike Tyson was sexually abused when he was a child growing up in Brooklyn at age 7.
Mike Tyson, 48 revealed in a recent interview earlier last week on Opie Radio show on SiriusXM that he was sexually abused as a child.
Tyson was in the radio show to promote his new series, "Mike Tyson Mysteries" when he disclosed the shocking revelation.
It was the part of the interview where he was talking about people's perception about him as a great boxing celebrity when Tyson started to let it all out and recall his experience as a sexually abused child. The radio show hosts asked follow up questions to probe a little more about it and Tyson was all ready to answer each of them.
"I was a little kid, 7," Tyson said. "[It was] an old man, yeah. One time."
The former boxing champ cleared that he never saw the man again and told the man "snatched me off the street."
One of the radio show host asked if the man let him go or he escaped the abuse, Tyson said, "I ran."
It was pretty obvious that the radio show hosts, Opie and Jim Norton were in shock knowing about these revelations for the first time and there was an awkward silence in the show.
Tyson has never told anyone of this past secret even the police. "It's nobody's business to know. That's why a bunch of entertainers have egos, it buffers their flaws, their demons, which is a demon itself. But it buffers the one you are afraid of. Everybody else if afraid of your ego, but you're afraid of the demon you're afraid of," Tyson explained.
The interviewer asked him if the incident changed him and Tyson gave a "great answer", "I don't know if I did or not...I'm not ashamed or embarrassed by it."
