Molly-Mae Hague left struggling as Tommy Fury makes admission about his 'dark weeks'

Tommy Fury has penned a new book, Lightning Can Strike Twice: My Life as a Fury, in which he opens up about the 'bleakest, toughest time' he experienced ahead of his fight with Jake Paul

Newly single Tommy Fury has revealed a "dark few weeks" left him spiralling and unable to be consoled by then-partner Molly-Mae Hague.

The boxer, 25, writes in his new memoir how a blow to his career became "the bleakest, toughest time" he had experienced and he ended up drinking to dull the pain. The dad-of-one recalls how being forced to call off his fight with YouTuber Jake Paul at the last minute in December 2021 plunged him into a low mood he "couldn't shake myself out of".

Tommy and Jake had been due to fight in Tampa, Florida, on 18 December 2021, but Tommy called things off after picking up a bacterial chest infection and breaking a rib during training. The pair eventually met in the ring in February 2023 - one month on from Tommy's daughter Bambi's birth.

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Writing in Lightning Can Strike Twice: My Life as a Fury, his new memoir, Tommy recalls how he picked up his 2021 injury at big brother Tyson Fury's house in Morecambe after sparring with one of his sibling's pals weeks before his planned bout with Jake. "I was weakened by the illness, and we must have connected wrong because all of a sudden I felt the weight of his punch and the breath left my body," the Love Island star remembers.

Tommy continues to tell the reader how he thought he was "going to die" and went straight to hospital, where he discovered he'd broken two ribs. Upon realising this would mean he had to call off his fight with Jake, Tommy's "whole world felt apart." He writes: "I was this kid from Salford with no money and a big dream. I may have done well financially after coming out of Love Island, but the fee I would have earned on this fight was something else. This was the big time."

He goes on to express his pain over lost income and facing months to recover from his injury. Tommy tells readers how he left his brother's gym in Morecambe and returned to Manchester fearing the big-money opportunity to fight Jake would never come round again.

He goes on to recall the online abuse he received in the wake of pulling out of the fight - "my accusers saying I was ‘scared of a YouTuber’, ‘not a Fury’, ‘a fake fighter’, ‘embarrassing my family’ and much worse" - and being heckled in the street on the rare occasion he would leave the house.

"Regardless of the level of abuse I received and my background as a Fury and a boxer, I held my head high and turned away," Tommy then tells readers before admitting he "sank into a low mood I couldn’t shake myself out of". He admits in his book that he was "not good to live with" after cancelling the match - with even Molly-Mae unable to console him.

"It was the bleakest, toughest time I had experienced. Molly noticed the change in me, of course, and didn’t know what to do because she had never seen me like this before," he writes. "My mood affected her deeply and she was at a loss as to how to reach me. One day she came home with food she knew I liked, and it didn’t do anything, it didn’t hit the spot. This was really unlike me because I love my food and it’s usually guaranteed to cheer me up. ‘What can I do?’ Molly asked. ‘I don’t know how to help. How can I help you to pull yourself out of this?’

"She was desperate to make it all OK. ‘There’s nothing you can do. Nothing means anything to me anymore and I can’t help it, this is just the way I feel.’ That was the truth in that moment. ‘What do you mean by that?’ I know Molly was struggling to understand how the situation had unravelled and affected me so severely." He adds how he knew deep down it was "just a frustrating injury and a cancelled fight" but he had let the blow floor him.

Tommy then looks back on how he just wanted to sit in the house alone, which was hard for Molly-Mae to hear "but she didn't give up" on him. Molly-Mae continued to try speak to her then partner and eventually Tommy began to open up and admit he was depressed.

Molly-Mae, who recently launched her own fashion line, is currently raising Bambi as a single mother after ending her engagement to Tommy in August, five years on from first meeting in the Love Island villa. Tommy recently revealed he is determined to win his former fiancée's trust back and reunite their family.

Asked on ITV ’s This Morning if he would like to get back together with Molly-Mae, Tommy said on Thursday: "It’s my family, at the end of the day I love them ’til the day I die." The professional boxer, 25, was on the morning show to promote his new memoir, Lightning Can Strike Twice: My Life As A Fury, where he has addressed their separation in an added chapter as he felt he could speak "freely" in the book.

Discussing the speculation that his actions caused the separation, he said: "There’s been a lot of critics out there, and there’ll be critics out there ’til the day I die. Everyone will point the finger when there’s a bandwagon to jump on but at the end of the day, out of respect to Molly, and out of respect to myself, and our relationship… I’m going to let us deal with that in private as much as we can."

*Lightning Can Strike Twice: My Life as a Fury by Tommy Fury is out now.

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