Sir Mo Farah has revealed the truth about his childhood as a child trafficked to the UK from Somaliland, in a new BBC documentary. The Real Mo Farah is available on iPlayer and will air on BBC 1 tonight, Wednesday July 13, at 9pm.
In the hour-long documentary, 39, attempts to uncover why and how he was brought to the UK as a nine-year-old child and poorly treated as a “servant” for another family. The Olympic medalist tells viewers: “There’s something about me you don’t know. It’s a secret that I've been hiding since I was a child.”
Mo Farah reveals that his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin and that he grew up during the Somali civil war. In one emotional clip the athlete recalls the moment in 2000 that he was handed a cassette tape that contained a message, poems, and traditional songs from his mother who he hadn’t seen or heard from in over a decade.
