Boris Becker’s estranged wife tells TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored of agony at telling son tennis ace had been jailed
THE estranged wife of tennis legend Boris Becker last night shared her agony at telling their son his dad had been jailed – and revealed she refuses to divorce him.
Lilly Becker told 12-year-old Amadeus his “papa didn’t listen to the law and he’s on the naughty step”.
The Dutch model, 45, said she had not spoken to the youngster about the court proceedings.
She told TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored: “I had no chance but to break my heart or his heart last Sunday and I don’t wish this upon anybody. It was the hardest thing I had to do with a 12-year-old.
“He just couldn’t grasp it. He still can’t. It breaks my heart but it just made me into ‘tiger mumma’.”
She added: “I have just told a 12-year-old that his father is in jail and the saddest part was I couldn’t break it down because these kids are now going on YouTube and the internet. The internet is cruel.
“But he also has a loving support system around him.
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“He’s curious and I’ve told him we all make mistakes.”
Lilly said Boris is doing “okay” and “as good as he can be” in prison – but added: “It’s not a five star hotel is it?”
She and Amadeus are “dying” to visit Boris in HMP Wandsworth, South West London.
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On her reaction to Friday’s two and a half year sentence, the Dutch model added: “I completely broke down.
“I couldn’t believe what I was hearing because I was convinced until the judge made her verdict that he was going to get a little bit lighter.
“I had to keep it together and I don’t know how I did it.”
Lilly also sensationally revealed she is still married to Boris despite previous reports of divorce in May 2018.
She said: “I’m very much still his wife. Estranged wife as that may be but we’re still very much married and have been since we went our separate ways.
“It was from the beginning intense and a complete, true love story. Everyone who knows us knows this.
“It’s not that I don’t want to get a divorce. We should handle our business at the right time.”
Asked whether she still loves the tennis champion, Lilly said: “Of course I do.”
Lilly said she was shocked by Becker’s sentence as she was convinced it would be lighter.
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Boris is also father to Noah, 28, and Elias, 22, from his first marriage to Barbara Becker, and only daughter Anna Ermakova, 22 – born after a 1999 tryst with a waitress at a London restaurant.
Becker is expected to serve 15 months before being released on tag.