Many people know about Mike Tyson. However, few know that an Italian man, Cus D’Amato, adopted him after his mother passed away.  At only two, Mike’s biological father left his family, leaving Mike’s mother to raise her two sons and her daughter alone.

Mike’s mother struggled as a single parent, raising three children in an an area where crime was very common. Mike’s mother and father were both drug addicts, and he consumed alcohol for the first time before he was one. Tyson explained that his mother would feed him drugs and alchohol to keep him sleeping.