Tyson Fury has opened up about a deeply personal loss that unfolded just days before what he described as the “fight of a lifetime” in 2024.
In the second season of At Home With the Furys, the heavyweight boxer, 37, recalled how he instinctively knew something was wrong with his wife, Paris Fury, 36, before learning she had suffered a miscarriage six months into her pregnancy.
Fury was in training camp abroad ahead of his fight against Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia when Paris chose not to attend it. That is the moment that raised alarms for Fury.
“A pack of wild horses couldn’t keep Paris away from them fights,” he said of the mother-of-seven, explaining that her absence made him realise “she’s lost that baby, hundred percent.”
Paris later revealed she had gone alone to a routine scan, where she was told there was no heartbeat. With the fight less than a week away, she chose not to tell her husband, fearing it would affect him mentally before the bout.
“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,'” Paris says in the documentary.
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.”
The loss came just one day before Fury lost his WBC heavyweight title to Usyk in May 2024.
Reflecting on the moment, Fury expressed regret over not being there for his wife. “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,” Tyson said.
“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.” he added.
Paris added how both were undergoing a similar sense of loss. “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.
The couple, who share seven children, have have had miscarriages previously as well in 2014 and 2018,
