New Rochelle’s Robin Givens opens up about Iron Mike
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- June
- 15
Can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but I was starting to feel something approaching pity for old Mike Tyson. Last weekend, I downloaded the old Nintendo game “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!” on my Wii, only to discover that the boxer’s name has actually been stripped from the title. Now it’s just called “Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream,” with Mr. Dream being Tyson’s apparent replacement. That’s just wrong.
Then in today’s Journal News, I read a story by our celebrity-loving colleague Heather Salerno about Tyson’s ex-wife, New Rochelle native Robin Givens. In her recently released memoir, “Grace will Lead Me Home,” Givens reveals that Tyson began hitting her before they got married. What’s more, before her famous interview with Barbara Walters, “Tyson choked and sexually assaulted Givens, tried to commit suicide and threatened to kill her.” And yet somehow, Givens told Salerno:
“I think it was easier for me to forgive Michael than it was to forgive myself. … I felt a loyalty to him, or that I failed him. He had issues, and (I thought) I was going to help him with those issues, and that I did a bad job.”
Poor girl! I hereby rescind all feelings of pity for Iron Mike and reassign them all to her. Somebody needs to get Givens on Oprah for a pep talk.
“Robin Givens is forgiving about her abusive marriage to Tyson” [The Journal News]
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