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Boxer Mike Tyson, At 41, Has Made Peace With Himself

   Although Mike Tyson is 41 years old, pudgy, sober, and millions of dollars in debt, what amazes him is the fact that he’s survived.
   “I never thought I’d live to this age,” Tyson said, as he recently prepared to fly to the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France to preview a new documentary about his life called “Tyson.”
   “I look at it now, and I’m embarrassed I did it,” he said in a recent interview. “There’s a lot of information people didn’t need to know.”
    Aimed at reintroducing the former heavyweight, the film contains interviews Tyson did last year while in rehab. Fight clips are intertwined within it.
    Meanwhile, his autobiography is in the works with author Larry Sloman, who was the ghostwriter for Howard Stern.

Posted June 4, 2008

  Tyson, however, seems divided about being in the public eye again; partly because it raises questions that cause him to choke up, trying to explain why.
“That might sound stupid,” Tyson said. “I really have no idea. All my life I’ve been drinking and drugging and partying, and all of a sudden this comes to a stop.”
    Framing his past as a series of mistakes, he recalled how his famous career began. “The day I won the title I got so drunk and high.” Then, he explains how his trainer Cus D’Amato took a 13-year-old kid from the ghetto and turned him into the heavyweight champion of the world.
    He speaks quietly and softly, still speaking through that familiar high-pitch voice with the trace of a lisp. But the man who was once the baddest man on the planet is at an unlikely place--he is at peace.

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