From theroot.com:
To watch Tyson, the former heavyweight champion’s self-produced mea culpa on all things Mike, is to unpack two decades’ worth of crazy: the rape conviction, the prison conversion, the chewed ear, the DUI arrest, the bankruptcy, the Don King dustup … that Barbara Walters’ train wreck of an interview with Robin Givens.
The documentary feels especially timely viewed alongside the unfolding drama surrounding pop stars Chris Brown and Rihanna, who are rumored to be back together in the midst of a criminal investigation of domestic abuse…
“We were just two kids,” Tyson says, “and the whole world was in our business … I’m an abusive husband, and she was a gold digger.”
“We were just kids.”
Sound familiar?
“Just kids” is an apt description for another celebrity couple grabbing the news with lurid charges of beatdowns, bruising and battering: Chris Brown and Rihanna, aka Chrihanna.
Like Tyson, Chris Brown found fame before he was legal. Like Tyson, Brown grew up in chaos. In a 2007 interview with Giant, Brown said that his stepfather regularly beat his mother: “He made me terrified all the time, terrified like I had to pee on myself. I remember one night he made her nose bleed. I was crying and thinking, ‘I’m just gonna go crazy on him one day…’ I hate him to this day.” (Brown’s stepfather has since denied that he ever hit Brown’s mother.)
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