Let Me Be Frank

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In 2017 Launch of a new book “Let me be Frank” with national media coverage plus many TV’s including “The One show” Lorraine, Good Morning Britain. An extensive Mental Health campaign talking to large businesses across the UK Bruno: 60 Years A Fighter, is the most definitive account of Frank’s life to date. In it he also opens up on how his boxing career was nearly derailed before it began – due to Colombian drug-dealers. And he details the bullying and racist abuse he overcame to emerge a World Champion. The future looks rosy for “the young lad looking for trouble who made his way to become World Champion in boxing and peoples champion in the UK”.

In the immediate aftermath of becoming world champion, at Wembley Stadium, Bruno had cried at ringside. “It was tough,” he said, the tears rolling from his swollen eyes, “but I love my brother. I’m not an Uncle Tom. I love my people. I’m not a sellout. I’m not an Uncle Tom.” I remember seeing Frank in his early days out jogging in the early hour in the Romford area. He was alway happy and jovial and would shout a hello in his deep voice to anyone he passed. I along with colleagues at that time believed that he would become a champion but never dreamt that it would be world champion. Later, I would see him on occasions as I we about my job in Havering and on a oneoccasion had the honour to be invited in for a cup of tea to his wonderful house that also had a swimming pool. He was a very devoted father and as he stated in this book and numerous times elsewhere, he was besotted and devoted to his kids.

Bruno kept winning fights, helping him to retain his spot as one of the world's leading heavyweights. He defeated contender Carl Williams, and then journeymen such as Jose Ribalta, Pierre Coetzer, and Dutchman Jan Emmen. The full details of the mental health breakdown he suffered in June 2020 which left his anguished family and friends forced to make the heartbreaking decision to have Frank sectioned. The former World Heavyweight Champion, who was diagnosed with bipolar following his retirement from boxing, spent six weeks in hospital after family and friends grew increasingly concerned about his behaviour. amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p>

Bruno has suffered in the intervening years. The break-up of his marriage and his enforced retirement after the Tyson rematch left him lost and bereft. He was sectioned in September 2003, and spent some time in Goodmayes, in a hospital for mentally ill people, before he slowly rebuilt his life without boxing. One of the busiest years for appearances including Thailand, Spain, Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales. 3 TV ad’s a number of major product endorsements and launches given an honouree Doctorate by Bournemouth UniversityAs one of the UK’s best-loved boxers and personalities, Frank Bruno has seen and done it all when it comes to boxing.

Entitled '60 Years a Fighter', Frank’s book, with a foreword by Piers Morgan, delivers a very honest and open insight into his personal and professional life - a must for all boxing and sporting fans. Plus he lets us in on a lifetime on stage and screen and the thrills-and-spills of life in the public eye. Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned?". guardian.co.uk. 24 October 2005 . Retrieved 10 January 2014. Tyson speaks of his mind being like “a torture chamber” when he was at his most distressed. Did Bruno feel something similar with his own mental health? “It was a challenge in a different way. When you’ve been boxing for years and then all of a sudden they say you’ve got to retire, it’s a very lonely and confusing place. My trainer George Francis used to tell me: ‘Your biggest fight is when you retire.’ He was right because what are you going to do? If you’re 75 you can retire and be grateful. When you retire at 35 it’s very confusing.”

FURY FUMBLE Tommy Fury snubs Molly Mae on return to UK after partying with women in Dubai 'Face up to the fact my illness had returned' The memoir also reflects on Frank’s remarkable showbiz career outside the ring and includes a previously unseen interview with his legendary TV “sparring partner” Harry Carpenter. In recent years, Frank, has turned his own struggles into a mission, becoming a champion for mental health with his own charity, the Frank Bruno Foundation. Ex-boxer Bruno admits cocaine use BBC 9 October 2005". BBC News. 9 October 2005 . Retrieved 10 January 2014.

Is he still on medication? “I take some tablets here and there. I don’t believe in the tablets but I take them to keep people happy.” Bruno's image was enhanced by his relationship with the BBC boxing commentator Harry Carpenter, which, in their many interviews, was generated Bruno's best-known and most-quoted phrases "Know what I mean, Harry?", his appearances on Comic Relief programmes in the early-1980s and his frequent appearances thereafter on television and on stage (in pantomime). But the fight has only just begun, as shown in Frank’s new book, which explores all sides of himself and his life - inside and outside the ring.Although Frank won the WBC Heavyweight Champions belt in 1995, this being his dream since he started boxing at 16, he is almost better know just as the decent bloke 'Frank Bruno' who is famous for saying 'Know what I mean Harry'. Now 60 years old, in this book Frank opens up about the challenges he has experienced, and most of what he has to say is about mental illness, in particular being diagnosed as 'bi-polar'. It is a testament to Frank that he looked despair firmly in the face a number of times but he carried on fighting, just like he had fought in the ring. Not only did he overcome and learn to tame his own issues, but he made a point to use his celebrity status to pull important influencers such as senior doctors and politicians to the cause of improving mental health facilities in Britain. He also worked continuously to raise money for many different types of charity. Frank suffered from retirement of his sport and struggling with the present and the great times he had in the ring. I suppose it is the latter Frank I saw when I was younger in those dreadful shows and thinking what a waste all he seemed to be able to do was be on these shows or be in pantomime. Owen Gibson (23 September 2003). "Sun on the ropes over 'Bonkers Bruno' story | Media | MediaGuardian". Guardian . Retrieved 5 May 2012. Good Morning Britain stars show off their vocals in charity Christmas single". mirror.co.uk. 10 November 2020.