DPA
Tennis star Boris Becker says his time in prison has changed him.
"I think I have rediscovered the person in me that I once was,” the 55-year-old said in an interview with the German TV channel Sat.1, which was to be broadcast on Tuesday evening.
"I have learned a hard lesson. A very expensive one. A very painful one,” the three-time Wimbledon champion said in his first interview since leaving jail. "But the whole thing has taught me something important and good. And some things happen for a reason.”
Becker was sentenced to two and a half years behind bars at the end of April in London for concealing assets worth millions from his insolvency administrators. He was released last week and deported to his native Germany after serving eight months of the sentence.
Speaking about his time in jail the former sportsman said "in prison, you are nobody. You are just a number. Mine was A2923EV. I wasn’t called Boris. I was a number. And they don’t give a shit who you are.”