Boris Becker gets emotional and introspects after jail term and near-death experience

Boris Becker talks about the harrowing experience of his days spent in jail.

Boris Becker gets emotional and introspects after jail term and near-death experience

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A lot of visible change has occurred in Boris Becker after spending an important part of his life in the British prisons. In April 2022, he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for hiding assets worth £2.5 million in order to avoid paying debts after declaring for bankruptcy. He was imprisoned for 231 days before being released and deported from the UK in December.

But in these 231 days, in the British jails he learned some important life lessons, albeit in a hard way. On the occasion of the release of his tell-all documentary ‘Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker’, he divulges on this difficult but important chapter of his life.

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“It was very difficult. Jail is a very harsh punishment, and it’s meant to be, and anyone who says prison life is easy is a liar. Life is very hard there, it’s the survival of the fittest and every day, you have to find a way to survive. It taught me something that I may have already known, but never had to apply in life, and everything I learned continued to help me when I regained my freedom,” Mr. Becker said in a recent interview given to a leading Spanish news website.

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“The truth is that it was very, very hard, but I made peace with that part of my life, I accepted what happened, and I really hope I learned. If prison doesn’t make you humble, I don’t know what does… When you lose everything and you’re in a little cell for 231 days, if that doesn’t make you humble, you’re lost,” the two-time Australian Open champion continued.

Boris Becker with his family is presently residing in Germany.

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Boris Becker tells his other experiences in jail which shook him

Boris Becker (Image Credit: Fox Sports)
Boris Becker (Image Credit: Fox Sports)

The three-time Wimbledon champion told German television Sat. 1 in an interview immediately after his release that one of the detainees tried to murder him. He was freed in December of last year after serving eight months of his sentence at Huntercombe Prison in the United Kingdom.

The tennis star told reporters that a convict who had previously spent 16 years in jail for killing two people when he was 18 tried to kill him. Boris Becker said he was scared after the encounter and yelled for help, prompting other convicts to come to his rescue and stop the assailant. He divulged his experiences in a recent interview given to American broadcaster CNN.

The two-time Australian Open champion also added that he do not want to rush himself. He wants to leave these feelings behind and move ahead in life.

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