Tommy Fury has said an 'alcohol problem' was the reason for his split with Molly-Mae Hague and denied that he cheated on her.
Last year, the famous couple announced last year that they had broken up, having first met in 2019 on Love Island.
Since then, Fury has been dogged by claims of cheating and was even asked about it during an appearance on the ITV show This Morning.
Fury has denied the claims of cheating, saying the rumours were 'completely false', and in his latest interview with Men's Health, he's said that the reason they broke up was because of alcohol.
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He said: "All I've been seeing for the past six months is ‘Cheater!’, ‘He slept with me!’, ‘He slept with this girl, he slept with that girl!’ Complete and utter b******s.
"We broke up because I had a problem with alcohol and I couldn't be the partner that I wanted to be anymore. It kills me to say it, but I couldn't. I loved a pint of beer, loved to drink.
"People go through different things in life. I’m 25 years old. I went through a lot and my breakup was in front of the whole world. It was talked about on Good Morning Britain and I’ve received so much hate for it.
"The most upsetting thing is that not once did anyone say, ‘Oh, he might be going through something a bit more serious. He might be in a bad spot.’ Not one person said that.
"Cheating was never a thing. You can ask Molly this yourself. It was the drink, and the drink is not a good thing. You need to get a grip of it. If you're in the same spot as me, where you just think that it's going to cure all your problems, it doesn’t.
"You wake up even worse and you want to drink more to try and feel happy again. That's the cycle of it."
He said that he'd 'got myself out of that now' and wanted to 'do my fights, earn my money, and look after my daughter', promising that he was 'going to get back in the ring real soon' and vowed 'to pick up where I left off'.
Speaking further to Men's Health, he said he'd had the 'best year' in 2023 when he suddenly found himself 'in a hospital bed being told that boxing might not be a thing for me anymore' following a hand injury which required reconstructive surgery.
He said: "I’ve only lived for training and my family, and that was all snatched away from me.
"So what I did for fun is I started to drink quite a lot. I found that's what made me feel better. When I didn't drink, I’d just look at my hand and think, I might never be able to box again.
"I just wanted to feel somewhat happy. I’d go out and just drink and drink and drink. It went on that way for a long time. I said no to a lot of work because I wasn't in the right headspace and started drinking more heavily, that's what really got a grip on me."
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Topics: Tommy Fury, Molly-Mae Hague, Celebrity, Sex and Relationships, Alcohol
Joe Harker