TOMMY Fury’s own father, John, suggested Molly-Mae Hague leave his son when their relationship hit turbulence.
The revelation appears in his new documentary Tommy: The Good. The Bad. The Fury which drops next week on BBC Three.
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John Fury, who is also father of champion boxer Tyson Fury, is heard in the first episode of the much-anticipated series saying: “I knew from dealing with Tyson that when the drinking started to come into play, I thought ‘Not again’.
“I did say to Molly because she came to me with this stuff, you know, and I said ‘What you are best off doing with him, Molly. is walking away because if he is not gonna change himself, he doesn’t think that much of you, does he?'”
This comes in a section of the show when Tommy is heard discussing alleged infidelities that led to them splitting up last year.
But he maintains the line that he hadn’t cheated saying: “The reason for our ending the relationship was alcohol.”
Tommy claims he hit the booze after suffering a hand injury which stalled his boxing career,
He said: “I couldn’t box, train or lift weights. That was all gone. My right hand was completely messed up.
“I was in dire pain. That is just what happens over years of impact on the hand.
“I’d lost my whole identity. I’d lost my life I was drinking a lot.
“And you don’t realise it yourself at the time but other people around you do.”
“I’ll hold my hands up. Drink got hold of me.
“Twenty shots a night. Twenty beers. Every day I would have a drink to get black out drunk.”
The documentary also features video footage of a drunk Tommy where he says: “I’m a local drunk.”
A woman, who sounds like Molly, is heard asking “What have you got to say for yourself?”
Tommy answers: “I’m a very very foolish man.”
In another part of the documentary he is asked if he thought Molly would leave and he replies: “No, no, I didn’t!”
He continued: “Me and Molly worked so hard keeping it the same for that girl.
“In that little girl’s eyes we are still a family. We will always be a family but in that little girl’s eyes nothing has changed.
“Being a father to me is the biggest achievement of my life. She is everything to me.
“I’d give up my life like that for her in a second.
“Everything I am doing now is to get my family back. And I need to fight again to achieve that goal.”
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