Everton midfielder Dele Alli has revealed in an emotional interview with Manchester United legend Gary Neville about being sexually abused as a child, going to rehab and his struggles with his mental health.
Dele Alli has revealed he was sexually abused at the age of six and was dealing drugs by the time he was just eight years old.
In an emotional interview, the Everton midfielder fought back tears as he laid bare his difficult upbringing before he was adopted by the Hickford family.
Alli also told Gary Neville in The Overlap podcast in partnership with Sky Bet that he has battled a sleeping pill addiction and only came out of rehab last month as he struggled with his mental health.
“I was sent to Africa to learn discipline, and then I was sent back,” he said. “At seven, I started smoking, eight I started dealing drugs.
“An older person told me that they wouldn’t stop a kid on a bike, so I rode around with my football, and then underneath I’d have the drugs, that was eight. Eleven, I was hung off a bridge by a guy from the next estate, a man.
Deli Alli reveals his youth and gets very emotional over it. Gary Neville interviewed him and Alli revealed how his youth was. It is actually crazy to think this is/was a person his youth. Deli Alli was dealing with a lot of things in his youth: drugs, abuse and getting hung off a bridge.
He told all this in the show Overlap by Gary Neville where Deli Alli was a guest.
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