"My begetter ne'er told me, ‘I emotion you.' My parent ne'er told maine she loved me," Oscar explained. "She ne'er truly gave maine a hug. When I would cry, she would commencement hitting me. That is however atrocious it was."

So, at the time, the heavyweight champion felt it was champion for Travis and Shanna—who divorced aft 4 years successful 2008—to raise Atiana, owed to his trauma. (The instrumentalist and erstwhile quality queen are besides parents to Landon, 19 and Alabama, 17.)

"You person yourself that you are not worthy of giving love," Oscar noted. "Then you commencement feeling atrocious for yourself. Life starts conscionable spiraling and you're lost. All you privation to bash is portion and bash drugs and escape. Luckily for me, erstwhile I was boxing, each the mode to the end, it kept maine successful line. I ever felt I wasn't worthy of anything, that I wasn't worthy of love."

But that's not to accidental he didn't have a relationship with his daughter, it was conscionable a antithetic one.

"As a begetter I was ever there, but not there, you know?" helium quipped. "It wasn't your emblematic narration with the begetter and the parent determination 24/7. It wasn't similar that, but evidently she is my girl and I emotion her. You person to cheque successful and you worry. Even though I was apart, I felt similar I was ever close, but I didn't consciousness similar I was worthy capable to bash the job."  

But these days, Atiana is each grown up, with Oscar being arrogant his girl can pack a punch with her ain path. 

"I emotion it," the Hall of Famer told E! News successful June 2022. "I ever wished the champion for her. That's what a begetter ever wants for his daughter. So, I springiness her each the emotion I tin springiness her and I'm ever determination arsenic her fig 1 fan."