Boris Becker has described his time in prison as “very brutal” after the tennis great spent eight months behind bars. The German was sentenced to two-and-a-half years inside in April 2022 for hiding assets worth £2.5million after being declared bankrupt.
Becker was declared bankrupt in June 2017 after an unpaid loan of more than £3million on his estate in Majorca left him owing creditors almost £50million. The 55-year-old said the experience had “humbled” him, but had made him a “stronger, better man”.
“Whoever says that prison life isn’t hard and isn’t difficult, I think is lying,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast, in quotes reported by the Independent.
