Why Oscar De La Hoya Says He Let Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler Increase Daughter Atiana – E! On-line

“My father by no means informed me, ‘I like you.’ My mom by no means informed me she liked me,” Oscar defined. “She by no means actually gave me a hug. After I would cry, she would begin hitting me. That’s how unhealthy it was.”

So, on the time, the heavyweight champion felt it was finest for Travis and Shanna—who divorced after 4 years in 2008—to increase Atiana, on account of his trauma. (The musician and former magnificence queen are additionally dad and mom to Landon, 19 and Alabama, 17.)

“You persuade your self that you’re not worthy of giving love,” Oscar famous. “You then begin feeling sorry for your self. Life begins simply spiraling and also you’re misplaced. All you wish to do is drink and do medicine and escape. Fortunately for me, once I was boxing, all the way in which to the tip, it saved me in line. I all the time felt I wasn’t worthy of something, that I wasn’t worthy of affection.”