Boris Becker has taken "full accountability" for the actions which led to him going to prison.

The 57-year-old tennis legend - who was freed from jail and deported back to Germany from Britain in December 2022 under an early release scheme after serving only eight months of his two-and-a-half year sentence for breaching bankruptcy rules - thinks life behind bars was "good" for him in some ways in order to take the time to understand his misdeeds because he believes rehabilitation has to come from within.

He told The Guardian newspaper: "In hindsight, it was probably very good for me to stand still for a long time, and 231 days is quite a long time. To truly understand what happened to me before, to put the dance together of what happened, was a relief. But it doesn’t happen overnight.

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