Tyson Fury has revealed he ‘knew’ his wife Paris had a miscarriage when she made an excuse not to attend his fight against Oleksandr Usyk in 2024.
The professional boxer, 37, was abroad getting ready for his ‘fight of a lifetime’ when Paris, 36, endured the pain of miscarrying at six months pregnant.
The mother-of-seven made the decision not to tell Tyson over the fear of upsetting him just days away from his fight.
Opening up about their loss on series two of their Netflix documentary At Home With The Furys, Tyson shared his regrets at not being their for Paris ‘for the first time in 20 years’.
Paris explained: ‘Going through everything these last few months, obviously he had the loss at the fight and at home, I lost the baby.
‘Everything had gone wrong. I was pregnant again after Rico and it was a bit of a surprise. Tyson was fighting Usyk, he was in training camp.
‘I was quite far along so I thought “You know what? It’d be nice to go and find out the gender”. I went to the gender scan by myself. I thought “Oh yeah, it’s okay. Don’t need anybody with me, done this many times”.
‘I went into the gender scan and got told there wasn’t a heartbeat and I just walked outside and started to cry.’
Tyson Fury emotionally revealed he ‘knew’ that his wife Paris had a miscarriage when she made an excuse not to attend his fight against Oleksandr Usyk in 2024
Opening up about their loss on series two of At Home With The Furys, Tyson shared his regrets at not being their for Paris while she explained why she decided to keep the news secret
Paris continued: ‘It was less than a week till his fight and I kept thinking “What do I tell Tyson?” I facetimed him and he said “Why are you in the hospital?” I said “High blood pressure, it’s fine. I’m fine.”
‘And then I come off the phone and broke into tears. I made the decision not to tell Tyson and I never went to the fight.’
Tyson shared: ‘A pack of wild horses couldn’t keep Paris away from them fights, so I thought to myself, “Yeah, she’s lost that baby, hundred percent”.
‘For the first time in 20 years, I couldn’t be there for her in her most needed time and that was the upsetting thing for me.
‘I was in a foreign country, abroad, about to do the biggest thing of my life and I just wanted to be home for my wife.’
Paris added: ‘He came home and it really did feel like something out of a movie. Like, Tyson’s had all his belts took from him, I’ve had this baby took from me, and we’ve got to bury him.
‘He said when he come back “I knew, I just wanted to deny it. I didn’t want to believe you”. If my hand was hanging off, I’d have been there.
‘I’ve had losses and it’s part of my life and I’ve learned to be stronger with it but it is still a very emotional time and everybody would experience it differently.
‘Whatever we’ve got, we are very lucky. We are all fit and healthy, I’ve got seven lovely, beautiful healthy kids and it’s just time to enjoy family life.’
Paris and Tyson are parents to Venezuela, 16, Prince John James, 14, Prince Tyson Fury II, nine, Valencia, eight, Prince Adonis, seven, Athena, four and Prince Rico, two.
Paris selflessly endured the agony of having to ‘give birth to a dead child’ alone, so that the boxer could focus on his bout, which was held thousands of miles away in Saudi Arabia.
He ultimately lost the fight, relinquishing his WBC world heavyweight title to the Ukrainian boxer, before returning home to England and realising his worst fears had been confirmed.
Tyson appeared on the verge of tears as he confirmed that he and his wife had lost a little boy back in 2024.
‘She lost [the baby] on the Friday of the fight, which was pretty s****y,’ he told reporters, before stressing that he wasn’t trying to make excuses for losing the bout.
However, the heavyweight boxer continued, the weight of Paris’ suffering was a heavy burden to bear.
Paris and Tyson are parents to Venezuela, 16, Prince John James, 14, Prince Tyson Fury II, nine, Valencia, eight, Prince Adonis, seven, Athena, four and Prince Rico, two
After learning that his wife was struggling health-wise back in England, Tyson lost to Usyk in Saudi Arabia just hours later (pictured)
When asked whether he and Paris, who share seven children, plan on having more babies, Tyson replied: ‘I don’t know if she’s back to normal on that. It takes a lot of getting over. But no more of this morbid stuff now because I’ll break down in tears.’
But sadly, this isn’t the first time Paris has suffered a miscarriage without telling Tyson for fear of upsetting him before a fight.
Four years ago, she admitted keeping her miscarriage in 2018 a secret from her husband because he was due to make his long-awaited return to the boxing ring after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus.
During an appearance on This Morning, Paris recalled how she sat ‘crying alone’ in her car after she found out and had to ‘grin and bear it’ because she felt she had to ‘hold it all together’ ahead of Tyson’s big comeback fight.
She told then-hosts Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby: ‘It started a couple of days before a fight and it was very early on to him returning to the ring and it was early on but I had to keep it to myself…
‘I had to grin and bear it, I had to sit alone in the car, crying on my own… I’m trying to keep it together because I’m the glue of the home,’ she continued.
Paris learned of her miscarriage on the same day Tyson made his long-awaited comeback after three years out the ring against Sefer Seferi in June 2018, but did not tell her husband until after he had got his hand raised.
Four years prior to her miscarriage, Paris gave birth to a stillborn baby in 2014, when five months pregnant – and has said ‘it’s something I’ll never really get over’.
Marking Baby Loss Awareness Week on her Instagram account in 2021, Paris reached out to those who have gone through a similar situation, as she candidly shared how ‘lonely’ she felt after experiencing both miscarriage and a stillbirth.
‘Even from a young age I always knew I wanted a big family – it’s in my bloodline after all as my Granny had eight – and with every baby my confidence as a mum has increased, I’ve got a routine and I know what works for us,’ she wrote.
If you have been affected by this story, you can seek advice at www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk or by calling 01924 200 799
