Tyson Fury reveals wife Paris tragically suffered miscarriage earlier this year
ok.co.ukTyson Fury has revealed that his wife, Paris Fury, tragically had a miscarriage six months into her pregnancy - just hours before his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk.The former heavyweight world champion, 36, lost to the Ukrainian in their undisputed showdown in Saudi Arabia on May 18, 2024.
Paris was due to arrive in Riyadh on the Friday, the day before the fight. However, when she called to tell Tyson she wouldn't be making the trip, citing high blood pressure, he knew the real reason.The couple had tragically lost their baby boy, who would have been their eighth child.
Despite the heartbreaking loss, Tyson doesn't want it to be seen as an excuse for his first professional defeat. Ahead of the December 21 rematch, Tyson revealed: "The one that she was having, she lost that on the Friday of the fight, which was pretty s****y." He told The Sun: "I am not making excuses but she was six months pregnant, it’s not like a small miscarriage at the beginning, you have to physically give birth to a dead child, on your own, while your husband is in a foreign country. "I could not be there for her in that moment.
And that is tough for me. I have been with the woman for longer than I wasn’t with her, so it is hard that I couldn’t be there with her, in that time.
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