'Cheating was never a thing': Tommy Fury speaks out about split with Molly-Mae Hague
Tommy Fury has spoken about the reason behind his breakup with Molly-Mae Hague for the first time since the pair announced their split
Tommy Fury has spoken about the reason behind his breakup with Molly-Mae Hague for the first time since the pair announced their split last summer.
Accused of cheating on his ex-fiancé Hague who he met on and who he has a daughter with, Fury faced relentless negative comments online following the news of the couple’s breakup.
In a recent interview with , Fury denied the allegations and revealed that his split with Hague was related to his struggles with drinking.
Fury explained how an injury to his hand and the subsequent surgery and 10-month recovery period made everything spiral downhill for him, making him lose his identity.
“I snapped all the ligaments in my hand and I had to have reconstructive surgery. I was fighting for the next three years effectively with a broken knuckle in the middle,” he told .
“I used to put cortisone in there to numb my hand to get through training, to get through the fights. It was tough, but I just couldn't afford the time out. I didn't want to sit out for a year.
"I got to a point in the last fight where I couldn't carry on anymore and I had to get the surgery. They told me it would be 10 months off at least.
“Picture this - 2023 was the best year that has ever happened to me. I had two multi million-pound fights - I won them both.
“I got engaged, I had a beautiful baby daughter, holidays, houses, the lot. And then, all of a sudden, I’m starting the year off in 2024 in a hospital bed, couldn't move my wrist for the first four months and I was told if I couldn’t speed up in rehab, that boxing might not be a thing for me anymore.
“Going from that [high] to that [low] – lying on the hospital bed knowing that I couldn't fight, couldn't train, couldn't lift weights, couldn't do any of that – [meant] my mental health was in the pan.”
He said that he only lived for training and his family and when all that was snatched away from him he began to drink for fun.
I just wanted to feel somewhat happy. I’d go out and just drink and drink and drink. There was nothing much else really for me to do so it went on that way for a long time.
Fury spoke about how his drinking became his crutch and that he found himself sitting in the pub "smashing Guinness" during the day before moving to shots later in the night.
“I used to drink to get black-out drunk. I would just keep drinking, drinking and drinking,” he said.
He said that despite his drinking habits, he would “never let that interfere with being a father” to his daughter Bambi.
“I don't care how bad I felt in the morning or how rough I was, I’d be up at 7.15am waking the baby up, making her breakfast, taking her to soft play, swimming, baby ballet because it was very important for me when I was going through this stage for everything to be the same in her life so she doesn't know anything,” he said.
Addressing his split from Molly-Mae Hague and the backlash he received online following their breakup, he said: “The reason why me and Molly broke up was because I got addicted to alcohol and I couldn’t be the partner that I wanted to be anymore.
“It kills me to say it, [but] it’s true, I couldn’t be. I loved a pint of beer, loved a drink, and it is what it is. People go through different things in life and we all have our crosses to bear. I’ve got mine to bear.
“I’m 25 years old. I went through a lot and my breakup was in front of the whole world.”
Fury said that he was accused of cheating and received relentless hate online and in the media but “not once did anyone say he might be going through something a bit more serious”.
“Not one person said that,” he said.
“Cheating was never a thing - and you can ask Molly that - it was the drink.”
Fury said that he is not looking for sympathy by speaking out but wanted to give his side of the truth and speak about his experience with drinking.
He said he now wants to move on and focus on his fights, earning money, and looking after his daughter.
“I'm going to get back in the ring real soon and I'm going to pick up where I left off. I'm ready to do that now. I've wasted a year already in my life and I'm ready to pick back up and have a great 2025,” he said.
Meanwhile, the first three episodes of a new Prime Video series fronted by Molly-Mae Hague will air on January 17, with the following three episodes following in spring.
The new six-part show will give “unprecedented access” to Hague’s life and focus on her “journey after her highly publicised breakup”, as well as raising her daughter and launching the clothing brand Maebe.
The couple met on ITV2 dating show in 2019 and went on to move in together and have a child, Bambi, in January 2023.
Fury proposed to Hague a few months later but they ultimately ended their relationship with separate social media messages last August.
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