Real reason Paris Fury kept miscarriage a secret from Tyson Fury as she suffered alone

Breaking her silence on the trauma of enduring a late miscarriage while her boxing legend husband was away at his title fight in Saudi, Paris Fury admits she is still healing physically and has advice for women who have experienced the same loss

Just days before Paris Fury was due to fly out to join her boxing legend husband Tyson ring-side for his title fight against Ukrainian rival Oleksandr Usyk Saudi Arabia, the mum-of-seven attended a routine gender scan.

“I was alone at the time,” she explains. “Tyson was in Saudi Arabia getting ready for his fight in the training camp, I’d had my 12-week scan, and everything was well, so I’d just popped in for a gender scan.

“Obviously having had multiple pregnancies, I just got a friend to watch the kids and I thought I’d come down and find out what it is, and then I could tell Tyson when I went over to join him in Saudi.”

As she sat on the bed for her scan in a dimly-lit room, Paris told how she expected to see the flutter of a tiny heartbeat on the ultrasound screen. She said: “I knew there was a problem. I didn’t know, my head was sort of telling me, actually, no, you’re wrong… but I was looking at screen, thinking, ‘Why is that not flickering?’”

Then came the devastating news. She added: “The sonographer said to me, ‘I’m really sorry, Paris, there’s no heartbeat. I jumped up, started to cry, and said, ‘No, hold on, hold on. No, no, wait,’ and went all frantic.” In shock and disbelief, Paris, who lives in Morecambe, Lancs, made the ­sonographer scan her again.

Unable to 100% confirm the terrible news, she was booked to go to her local Lancaster Hospital next day.

Paris recalled walking out of the building in tears. She added: “I thought, ‘I can’t go home to the kids and be crying and hysterical like this.’”

Instead she went to a friend for comfort. Speaking about her previous loss, Paris said: “I’ve had three ­miscarriages. I lost one in the first trimester, and two in the second trimester, two that I’ve had to deliver. We’ve buried two baby boys.” And she praised hospital staff for the handling of her latest trauma.

Paris, who had only given birth to their youngest, Rico, eight months earlier, said: “When I went in, they said I was too far on to be put to sleep and told me, ‘You’ve got to have the baby.’ The staff were amazing. There was a midwife with me the whole way through. It’s a horrific ordeal to go through but they were exceptional.”

Paris said: “I knew it would come out and the day it did, I was happy to talk about it.

“It makes it normal for other people to know that they’re not the only ones it happens to.” Speaking about the mental anguish women suffer with a miscarriage, she added: “Don’t blame yourself.

“At the time it feels like your world is ripped to pieces. But I know everyone can get through it.

And what is so traumatic one day, becomes a memory. You know, you had that little piece of life, even it’s such a short time.

“Mentally I’m at ease with what went on. Physically, I’m OK.” At this point Paris pauses and her voice wobbles. “You know, I'm not great,” she admits. “It's been a few months, but it took a lot out of my body, obviously having Rico first. You’ve still been through a pregnancy, you’ve still been through a birth and your body has to heal.”

“But I’m getting stronger.”

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