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Mike Tyson refused to see celebrity friends behind bars

Published on Dec 2, 2013

By EMN

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BOXING great-turned-actor and entertainer Mike Tyson refused to see some of his celebrity pals while he was locked away in prison 20 years ago - because he didn't want them to see him bound like a slave.The rehabilitated sportsman admits he wasn't short of celebrity visitors during his time behind bars from 1992 to 1995, while he was serving time for rape, but he drew up a list of people he didn't want to see - because he was too ashamed to come face to face with them. He says, "(Actress) Florence Henderson came by and I was in the hole - I had gotten in trouble... and you're chained down like a runaway slave and I didn't wanna be like that. It was a horrible thing to do... It was just a degrading situation".