{"id":77011,"date":"2023-07-13T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=77011"},"modified":"2024-02-17T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T22:24:31","slug":"dele-alli-interview-confessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/dele-alli-interview-confessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dele Alli Interview: Confessions That Shocked Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everton&#8217;s star football player Dele Alli fell on the agenda like a bomb with his interview. The British star made a shocking confession in tears.<\/p>\n<p>Dele Alli, who played for Be\u015fikta\u015f for a short time, made a shocking confession on the podcast of British football legend Gary Neville.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old football player told Gary Neville&#8217;s YouTube channel The Overlap that he was sexually abused at the age of six, spending six weeks in rehab earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>English national football player Dele Alli spoke in a highly emotional interview about the sexual abuse he was subjected to as a child. The 27-year-old actor spoke with former international Gary Neville about his difficult childhood, in a tearful and trembling voice, on his YouTube channel The Overlap.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2013 Alcoholic mom<br \/>\u2013 Molested by his mom&#39;s friend at 6<br \/>\u2013 Started smoking at 7<br \/>\u2013 Started dealing drugs at 8 (selling)<br \/>\u2013 Hung off a bridge at 11<br \/>\u2013 Adopted at 12<\/p>\n<p>Emotional and powerful interview from Dele Alli.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing him the best going forward. \u2764\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9haKf66RzQ\">pic.twitter.com\/9haKf66RzQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UF (@UtdFaithfuls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UtdFaithfuls\/status\/1679411517538594816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Dele Alli Interview: Sexual Abuse, Smoking, Drugs<\/h3>\n<p>Alli said she was abused when she was six years old. He started smoking at the age of seven and selling drugs at the age of eight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The young star explained:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI woke up one morning. I had to go to training, at that time Mourinho stopped playing me. I remember looking in the mirror. It might sound dramatic, but I was really just looking in the mirror and thinking, &#8216;Can I retire at 24?&#8217; You know, doing what I love. For me, this was a situation that broke my heart.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always struggled with myself. I was winning the battle, smiling, showing that I was happy, but inside I was definitely losing a battle. Trauma is trauma, and your body records the same no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>If you knew about my life, you would understand this a little better. I want to help others know that they are not alone in how they feel, and I want them to know that getting help is not a sign of weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Dele Alli: My Mother Was An Alcoholic<\/h3>\n<p>Explaining that her mother was harassed by her friend who always came home when she was six, Alli said, \u201cMy mother was an alcoholic. Then I was taken to Africa to learn discipline and then sent back. I started smoking at the age of seven and selling drugs at eight. An old man told me they couldn&#8217;t stop a boy on a bike so I would run around with my soccer ball and get dope under it. When I was 11\u2026 I was hung from a bridge by a man next door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alli stated that she was adopted at the age of 12. The Dele Alli interview continued:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom that moment on, it was like I was adopted by a wonderful family. In reality, I was never coping with the problems, I was trying to deal with the growing problems and traumas, the emotions I was holding on by myself.<\/p>\n<p>My adopted family, my brother, sometimes pulled me aside and asked me to cry and tell just how I felt, but I couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I lost myself for a few years, I was pushing everyone away, when my parents who saved my life were crying, when they asked me to tell me what was wrong, I didn&#8217;t want to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up every day, won the challenge, and went to practice with a smile every day. I wanted to show that I am happy. I was losing the fight inside and it was time for a change. When I was told I needed Surgery, I could feel the emotions I felt when the cycle started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LyDL9EUIdy0\" title=\"Dele: &quot;Now is the Time to Talk&quot;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everton&#8217;s star football player Dele Alli fell on the agenda like a bomb with his interview. The British star made a shocking confession in tears. Dele Alli, who played for Be\u015fikta\u015f for a short time, made a shocking confession on the podcast of British football legend Gary Neville. The 27-year-old football player told Gary Neville&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":77012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[1700,15313,78590],"class_list":["post-77011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-besiktas","tag-besiktas-jk","tag-dele-alli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77014,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77011\/revisions\/77014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}