Boris Becker Recounts His Experiences in Prison
Boris Becker unpacks about detention... Why two of his children didn't visit him in prison?
Boris Becker was imprisoned for 231 days. The former tennis star had hardly any contact with the outside world. He forbade two of his children to visit the prison.
Boris Becker is back in freedom. Five days after his release, the 55-year-old relentlessly revealed details about his life behind bars in an interview with Steven Gätjen. For example, the athlete says that a fellow inmate wanted to kill him or that he offered his girlfriend to break up.
“It’s not good for the boy”
Boris Becker phoned Lilian De Carvalho Monteiro every day, and she also visited him regularly. His children, however, stayed out of prison. This is the athlete’s express wish. “I didn’t want a twelve-year-old son to visit his father in prison,” explains Becker. Amadeus comes from the marriage with Lilly Becker, lives only a few kilometers from the prison.
“Everyone was of the opinion: That’s not good for the boy,” says Becker, who has four children. “And I don’t know if I could take it when he’s around my neck and won’t let go, and the guard comes and wants to take him away, so to speak. I didn’t want that, but I spoke to him a few times – too little.”
Close contact with daughter Anna
He also spoke to his daughter more often on the phone. In fact, his time in prison was good for the relationship with Anna. “I’ve never spoken to my daughter as often and regularly as I did in prison. It took a prison for us to get as close as we had never before in freedom,” says Becker. “We talked every week, every other week. Father to daughter or daughter to father.”
The 22-year-old also wanted to visit her father, but he talked her out of that too. The tennis star, however, received his two older sons for the first time two months after his imprisonment. Noah and Elias Becker come from the marriage with Barbara Becker.
Priest made phone call with Mama Elvira possible
He reached his mother Elvira with the help of a priest. “I called my mother the day it was Mother’s Day in Germany,” Becker recalls. “He told her, ‘I’m alive and I’m fine’. She could hardly believe her luck.
He couldn’t make a call from his cell. When the priest visited him, he made the conversation possible. “Religion and faith in prison is very important,” said Becker. He is Christian.
