Boris Becker has faced legal allegations and received a jail term of two and half years in April. The punishment, apart from shattering his reputation as a tennis veteran, also broke his family. The former German tennis ace’s wrongdoings cost him the company of his family.

Becker hid £2.5 million worth of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts, which now has distanced him from his loved ones and put them in a difficult situation. In a recent interview, his wife Lily spoke about how she broke the news to their 12-year-old son Amadeus.

Lily about informing Amadeus of his father’s imprisonment

While speaking to the Daily Mail, Lily shared, “worst thing I’ve ever had to do. My instinct was to say it as it is: ‘Your father is in jail. He has f***ed up.'” 

Thereafter, she added, “But you can’t say that to a 12-year-old child, can you? Not when you are the mother, the Tiger Mother whose job on this earth is to protect that child.” Amadeus wasn’t aware that his father was facing a jury at Southwark Crown Court for committing financial fraud.

Lily had to take advice from her friends to land the news gently to her boy. Though he still was shaken and chose to process the same alone away from his mother for around 20 minutes. “I will never forget looking into his blue eyes – as blue as Boris’s – and watching them just go from left to right and back again. He just couldn’t get a grip on it,” the 45-year-old later detailed.

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In May of 2018, after nine years of marriage, they announced that they had separated. However, even so, his wife stayed by his side throughout the hearings and court rulings.

Boris Becker will have to leave England

Novak Djokovic‘s former coach has been a resident of London since 2012, but he never applied for citizenship and because of that he will have to leave the nation. Becker will have to abandon his home in England and return to Germany.

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By law, foreigners who receive a sentence of over 12 months are bound to leave the land as soon as completion of their term for the public good. Therefore, Becker, who shuffled his assets amongst his ex-wife and estranged wife to fake bankruptcy in 2017, will have to return to his homeland. Further, the 54-year-old is currently expecting an early release and is hoping for lenient actions from Germany’s end.