Oscar De La Hoya: ‘I didn’t love boxing. I was just good at it’

Oscar De La Hoya: ‘I was ready to erupt because of my mother’s abuse’. Photograph: Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock

After decades of trying to live up to outsized expectations – and escaping the pressure through drugs, alcohol and sex – Oscar De La Hoya is questioning the life he once lived. But he is unsure at times where happiness fits in.

“I still ask myself that,” he says. “If I deserve to be happy.”