Parenting & Family Quote by Boris Becker

It is rare to hear a celebrity apology that admits not just a mistake, but the mechanics of it: the meeting with lawyers, the “wrong advice,” the long refusal. Becker is doing something more strategic than confession. He’s redistributing blame while still claiming moral growth, casting his failure as partly procedural - a botched legal script that prolonged a human situation.

The line “They gave me all the wrong advice” is both shield and tell. It implies he was misled by professionals, but it also reveals how he initially framed the pregnancy: not as a relationship or a child, but as risk management. That’s the subtext of “arranged a DNA test” sitting beside “met her.” He pairs an intimate act (meeting the child) with a forensic one (proof), acknowledging that his first instinct was to litigate his way out of fatherhood. The bluntness works because it doesn’t try to romanticize that impulse; it names it.

Context matters because Becker’s public story has long been about volatility - athletic brilliance, tabloid turbulence, later financial collapse. Here, he’s trying to rewrite a familiar arc of male celebrity entitlement into one of belated accountability. The final clause, “accepted my responsibility,” lands as a corrective to the earlier refusal, but also as reputational triage: he’s signaling to the public that the mature version of Boris Becker exists, even if he arrived late. The emotional payload is in the time he admits he wasted.