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Boris Becker has given his side of events amid claims he cheated on his ex-wife as she was giving birth. The former Wimbledon champion has previously made headlines for his extraordinarily complicated romances as well as his sporting prowess.

The German had previously admitted to cheating on his first wife, Barbara Feltus, which eventually led to the couple's divorce before he married Sharlely Kerssenberg and then his current wife, Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro. But setting the record straight on what happened, Becker shut down the suggestion that he cheated on Feltus while she was giving birth, but he did confirm that Feltus was in hospital.

"There were no contractions," Becker told The Louis Theroux Podcast. "She was in hospital, but there was no contractions. No.

"Fast forward, we settled in a divorce. I cheated on her, no doubt about that. We managed to have a relationship that's built on respect. She's a wonderful mother to my two oldest boys. She actually moved to Milan this year as well.

"So we moved on from that. There were a couple of scenes after our divorce. Again, it's so long ago. I have to really think hard about what happened that weren't so nice from her.

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"Without getting into too much detail, she had the power because I was the bad guy. She got a nice cheque out of it. She got a nice monthly support out of it. And she realised that nobody's perfect.

"I like to call myself a good father. I really looked after my two oldest, even though they weren't living in Europe at the time, and they moved to Miami. So 25 years later, we really consider each other a close knit family, regardless of what happened."

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