Mike Tyson tells all in film at Cannes
By ANGELA DOLAND – 5 hours ago
CANNES, France (AP) — Mike Tyson considers it a miracle that he lived to tell his tale. And he’s telling it — in graphic detail — in a new documentary at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I lived a wild and extreme life,” the former heavyweight champion told reporters Saturday. “I used drugs. I had altercations with dangerous people. I slept with guys’ wives that wanted to kill me. I’m just happy to be here, you know. It’s just a miracle.”
The 41-year-old former boxer got a prolonged ovation at the Cannes screening for “Tyson,” directed by his old friend James Toback (”Fingers”).
In the movie, which blends old video footage and TV interviews, Tyson talks about getting beaten up and stolen from when he was an overweight kid. He chokes up when reminiscing about his late trainer, Cus D’Amato, who transformed the troubled teenager into a world-class champion.
Tyson spares no details in describing his sex life, and covers his career’s low points, like biting Evander Holyfield’s ear in 1997. He admits to many, many bad decisions.
But on one issue, he still refuses to take responsibility. He insists he is innocent of the 1991 rape of an 18-year-old beauty queen for which he served three years in prison.
“I’ve been abusive to women before in my life,” he acknowledged. But in this case, “I thought (the conviction) was wrong, I thought it was unfair.”
Toback, who has known Tyson for 23 years and gave him small parts in “Black and White” and “When Will I Be Loved,” said he talked to Tyson in a soothing, hypnotic voice to get him to open up for the film.
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on 18 May 2008 at 1:59 am # Keysha
wearing pink outfit to jail is hot. paris hilton shoulda thought of that.
on 18 May 2008 at 2:49 am # Caden
Yeah, I was thinking Second Life.
on 18 May 2008 at 3:40 am # Reed
Looks like something I would have built in the Sims as a kid: big and spacious but doesn’t really have an overall theme or good design. Just lots of space, big indoor pool, garish wall textures, etc.
on 18 May 2008 at 4:30 am # Kassidy
jacked jacked jacked ….
on 18 May 2008 at 5:21 am # Lizette
Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbickhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MY3RtJUrD8I used to occasionally watch boxing as a lad, after watching that youtube, I think it really is barbaric.
on 18 May 2008 at 6:11 am # Dulcie
the whole place kinda seemed horror/”the shining”… beautiful yet all abandoned and slightly decayed. creepy and cool.
on 18 May 2008 at 7:02 am # Candy
True story here, circa 2004…My in-laws live in central phoenix, very close to the border of $1 mil houses. My father in-law likes to walk the dogs through the nicer neighborhoods, good exercise since he’s in remission. One evening as he’s passing by an alley, he sees a very large man about 6 houses down screaming and cussing and jumping around yelling at pigeons. He then sees the man jump over a block wall fence in to one of the back yards. He calls the cops from his cell phone as he’s walking back home, and a few hours later the cops showed up to talk to him.Apparently, Mr. Tyson’s lady friend lives there, and he has a habit of going off on the birds, and chasing them back in to his yard. The cops get called out there several times a month for his antics.
on 18 May 2008 at 7:53 am # Dylan
Don’t tell him that or he’ll bite your ear off!
on 18 May 2008 at 8:43 am # Ace
Hideous, and looks like a cheesy church.
on 18 May 2008 at 9:34 am # Mat
That is one crazy mofo - - - sneak into mike tyson’s house?! holy fucking shit…i love the pool though…reminds me of the shinning for some odd reason
on 18 May 2008 at 10:24 am # Rashawn
Graceland comes to mind almost immediately.
on 18 May 2008 at 11:15 am # Gladwin
between this and the pictures of Abandoned Neverland, i see a nice morbid trend… it’s like Cribs, but sadder.