An Olympic boxing champion was sincere: "I had a hammer under the bed in case I had to help my mother"

British boxer Nicola Adams, a double Olympic champion, has broken down into a 90 -minute documentary, directed by Helena Coan, the episodes of violence that lived in her childhood by her father and how boxing helped her at that time of life.

Adams says in that sense that "boxing gave me a career, the opportunity to protect myself, to get my family and me out of poverty.If it weren't for boxing, I don't know where I would be now ".

Because the British had to deal with numerous situations of violence in her childhood, first with her father and later with other couples of her mother."My dad hit me and it wasn't until my mother, my brother and I left, and began to box, when things changed," says Adams, who now admits that he came to tell his mother to kill his parent forend your anguish.

The boxer tells that when I was five years old "my mother and dad were fighting and I tried to intervene and protect my mother.I tried to hit my dad with a small plastic sword, but they pushed me out ".Adams's father did not agree to appear in the documentary, although a note appears at the end of the film in which it is said that "Nicola's father argues that he was never violent with Nicola or his mother.He says that accusations are false ".

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Therefore, Adams saw a shelter in boxing."Boxing gave me that courage and made me think that if something happened again I could protect me and my family.Boxing also became my safe space because there was a coach who saw every day.It was as if he had a second family ".

Other later couples of Nicola's mother also exercised violence in the family.Therefore, the boxer admits that "she was also quite violent and aggressive, and it was at the point that I decided to sleep with a hammer under my bed, in case I had to help my mother.I couldn't understand why, after all the abuse and everything we had suffered with my dad, it was happening again ".

Then, Adams lived a successful career, with two Olympic gold.