Tyson Fury has revealed his wife, Paris, suffered a miscarriage on the eve of his heavyweight title fight against Oleksandr Usyk in May.
Paris Fury was six months pregnant with the couple’s eighth child and did not travel to Saudi Arabia to watch her husband’s fight with Usyk in Riyadh earlier this year. The fight ended with Usyk winning via split decision and being crowned undisputed champion.
“She lost [the baby] on the Friday of the fight, which was pretty s—–,” Tyson Fury said.
“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.
Speaking to reporters at a media day in London on Wednesday ahead of his rematch against Usyk in December, Fury said he suspected something was wrong before the fight.
“When she said she couldn’t come over, I knew there was a problem. She usually comes out on fight week but she had high blood pressure and couldn’t come. I asked her what was up and to tell me but she wouldn’t. So I knew,” Fury added.
“I knew. I knew there was a problem. I said to my brother: ‘She’s lost that baby.” She never told me she had lost the baby, but I knew. When I got back I got the inevitable confirmation that it was gone but she kept it to herself.”
A visibly moved Fury, who already has seven children with Paris, confirmed that they had lost a little boy: “We have had miscarriages before and, it happens. Will we have any more kids? I don’t know if she’s back to normal from that. It takes a lot of getting over. But no more of this morbid stuff now because I’ll break down in tears.”
Fury and Usyk will fight for a second time on Dec. 21 in Riyadh.
