“From day one, what that woman did was not right,” he says in the upcoming documentary Olympic legend Mo Farah. About the woman who snatched him from his family and forced him to live as a house enslaved person.
Sir Mohamed “Olympic legend Mo” Farah shares the dark truth about his upbringing.
In a clip from the upcoming news One documentary The Real Mo Farah. The four-time Olympic gold medalist, 39, reveals his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin. He was kidnap from his family in his native Somaliland at nine and take to England.
“Despite what I have said in the past, my parents never lived in England. “When I was four years old, my father was kill in the civil war,” said Farah. “As a family, we fell apart.
While examining a copy of a fake visa to enter a country bearing her phony name. Farah admits that she “wonders what Mohammed is doing now.”
“Since I came in, I [had] a different name, a different identity,” he said.
“I know I’ve taken someone else’s place.” Although the documentary consulted lawyers about the possibility of losing his citizenship through fraudulent acquisition. The UK Home Office said “no action will be taken against Sir Mo” because he is a child and therefore not involve, according to The Telegraph.
Headquarters did not immediately respond to a new request for comment. However, Farah recalls that her mother sent her and her twin brother Hassan to live with her uncle near Djibouti for their safety. After their father’s death, according to The Washington Post.
The long-distance runner said a woman often visit him to keep an eye on him before he was told she would take him to European relatives. He was allegedly force to live as a domestic enslave person for his family.