Overview
- Appearing Thursday on RTL's 2025 year-in-review program, Becker reflected publicly on his incarceration and its lasting impact.
- He described prison as the most brutal experience of his life, saying he lost freedom, money, friends and contact with his children.
- Becker said he feared for his life while held alongside what he called murderers, child molesters and drug dealers.
- He recalled crying once in prison out of joy while watching Novak Djokovic win the Wimbledon final with fellow inmates, as his wife and son attended at the stadium.
- Becker said he is a new person three years after release, noting he served eight months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence from his April 2022 conviction, and he welcomed a daughter with Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro in late November.