Brad Pitt, unsuspected home wrecker? In 2012, Mike Tyson confided in an interview with Yahoo! Sports, dubbed In Depth with Graham Bensinger that he had caught his wife Robin Givens (from whom he was divorcing) in bed when he came home by surprise. “I was getting divorced. I had to go to my lawyer’s office to finalize the separation that day but I was determined to take a detour for a little sex“, explained the former boxing champion, furious to see that another had taken his place, and not just anyone since it was Brad Pitt. “I think he beat me to speed. I was mad with rage. You should have seen his face when he saw me“, added the boxer who had however not wished to fight with the actor. Having since taken a little more distance from this situation, he added: “I hope Brad isn’t convinced that I’m mad at him because I’m not mad at all.“All the same very marked by this scene, he also recounted it in his book The Truth and nothing else released in 2013.
Don’t hit me, don’t hit me!
In his book, Mike Tyson also claims that Brad Pitt started begging him when he caught him with his wife. The former professional boxer writes that the actor would have shouted: “Don’t hit me, don’t hit me!“. Confessions that Robin Givens had denied during an interview on June 10, 2019 in the program Watch What Happens Live : “I haven’t read the book, but I was told it says he caught us in bed, which never happened. Never, never, never happened. He surprised us when we were coming back from an event, like, a screening or something..”
Regarding the cries of Brad Pitt, she also denied the version of Mike Tyson. “No. Does that look like Brad? I mean, Brad looks goodYou see what I mean ?“, she corrected. According to Peoplethe representative of Brad Pitt had, at the time, not wished to respond to the controversy (and we understand it).
In 2016, Mike Tyson went back on his words and changed his version of the facts stating on the American show The Real Daytime, that indeed, he had not surprised his ex in bed but when they were getting out of a car to go to a party.