"You fight every day for survival": Becker was surrounded by 'murderers and rapists' and had to pay for protection in prison

Boris Becker shared more information about his prison stint from which he was released late last year admitting to feel unsafe where he was.

Becker has spoken about his prison time a few times during his media rounds after his release but in his recent engagement on Apple TV he shared further details of his stay claiming to have been surrounded by murderers and rapists:

"I was surrounded by murderers, by drug dealers, by rapists, by people smugglers, by dangerous criminals. You fight every day for survival. Quickly you have to surround yourself with the tough boys, as I would call it, because you need protection."

He also shared about his evolution as a person over the years after making a lot of mistakes:

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"If you think you're better than everybody else then you lose. Inside it doesn't matter that I was a tennis player, the only currency we have inside is our character and our personality. That's it, you have nothing else."

And more:

"You don't have any friends at first, you're literally on your own and that's the hard part, you have to really dig inside yourself about your qualities and your strengths but also your weaknesses."

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