The German tennis player Boris Becker He confirmed on Tuesday that he had learned a “hard lesson” while in prison, in the first interview he gave after spending eight months in a United Kingdom prison for financial crimes.
“I have learned a hard lesson. Face. Very painful. But all this has taught me something important and good. And some things happen for a good reason,” he said in an interview with the German channel Sat.1 that will be broadcast tonight. on Tuesday but the content has already been revealed by other German media.
“I think I rediscovered the person I was,” said the 55-year-old tennis player, a three-time Wimbledon champion.
In relation to the 232 days the tennis star spent in prison – first in London’s Wandsworth and then in Huntercombe, Oxfordshire – Becker said that during that time he was “nobody”.
“You’re just a number. Mine is A2923EV. No one calls me Boris, that’s a number. And they don’t care who you are,” he said.
In the final hours before his release, Becker recounted how he spent the time sitting on the edge of the bed waiting for the cell door to open.
“They asked me if I was ready and I told them: Let’s go. I already had my luggage,” he recalled.
Becker was released after serving just eight months in prison of a 2.5-year sentence imposed in April for hiding assets and loans worth 2.5 million pounds (2.9 million euros) to avoid paying their debts. .
The world’s number 1 declared insolvency on June 21, 2017, with debts of almost 50 million pounds (about 58 million euros) related to unpaid debts of more than 3 million pounds (3 4 million euros) for a property of his in Mallorca (Spain).
According to information from the German tabloid “Bild”, Becker, who is still mired in insolvency proceedings, received more than 500,000 euros for the interview on Sat.1.
Source: La Verdad
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