Boris Becker’s ex tells documentary how he ‘threw her beneath the bus’

The former fiancée of tennis star Boris Becker instructed an ITV documentary how the tennis star ‘threw her beneath the bus’ – as she came upon by means of the tabloids that their union was over.

Alessandra Meyer Wolden lifted the lid on the disastrous finish of their engagement within the second a part of ITV’s Boris Becker: The Rise and Fall, which airs subsequent Tuesday.

Ms Meyer Wolden was the daughter of Becker’s longtime tennis supervisor Axel Meyer-Wolden, who died in 1997, and she or he knew the star as a toddler.

She was simply 24 when she turned an merchandise with Becker in the summertime of 2008, whereas he was 40.

Ms Meyer Wolden described how the start of the connection appeared ‘like a fairytale’ and he proposed to her on a romantic getaway to Sardinia.

However, issues soured when she fell unwell whereas accompanying Becker on a visit to Miami to see his two sons from his first spouse, Barbara.

After an offended trade by way of textual content message, she says Becker went to German tabloid Bild Zeuting and introduced he had been dumped by textual content, blindsiding his younger fiancee. 

Ms Meyer-Wolden mentioned: ‘In my thoughts, at 24 years previous, this was solely about ten years after my father had handed…I felt protected. 

‘And as a result of at the back of my thoughts, you understand, I all the time kind of had my father and him trusting Boris and treating Boris like household. 

‘[I thought] perhaps that is the place I’m speculated to be. Maybe you understand, that is the loopy love story with all this historical past… the joyful ending.

‘The story was… it was like a fairytale.’

‘I knew Boris was Boris however I had no thought what got here with it. His private life was a multitude. There have been divorces, there have been kids, there have been breakups.

‘We had a visit to Miami earlier than our breakup, through which we had frolicked together with his kids, and I acquired very sick. But Boris was not proud of that, and impulsively, he was not taking my phonecalls and he began performing unusual. 

‘I did not know the place he was. So in fact I known as and naturally I messaged. The message that I wrote to Boris mentioned: “Well, if you’re not answering and you’re not communicating with me, I guess our engagement is off?”

‘He took that message, took it completely out of context, and with that message went to the Bild Zeitung (tabloid newspaper) and mentioned, “look, this horrible, young 24-year-old girl broke up with me Boris Becker over text”.

‘The method that i came upon about our engagement being off was by means of the headline in Bild Zeitung of Boris portraying himself as a sufferer, cleansing up his picture in order that he would look good

‘To today, I’ve by no means spoken to him once more. So he threw me beneath the bus.’

The documentary additionally particulars the breakup of Becker’s first marriage within the Nineties. Becker notoriously acquired mannequin Angela Ermakova pregnant throughout an amorous encounter within the cabinet of London restaurant Nobu – simply as his spouse Barbara was in hospital guaranteeing a tough being pregnant with their second son.

Barbara later filed for divorce in Miami, the place she was in a position to declare larger alimony and little one assist for herself and their two sons. Ermakova gave start to his daughter Anna and the story of their union was reported in a News of the World scoop.

Becker was jailed for two-and-a-half years in April 2022 after the tennis champion was discovered responsible of 4 offences beneath the Insolvency Act, and acquitted of an extra 20 counts at Southwark Crown Court.

After burning by means of his multi-million pound fortune, Becker discovered himself in an inescapable gap of debt and was declared bankrupt in June 2017 over an unpaid mortgage of greater than £3million on his property in Mallorca, Spain.

In try to cover £2.5million in property whereas bankrupt, Becker transferred €427,00 (£356,000) to the financial institution accounts of a number of recipients, together with his ex-wife Barbara and his estranged spouse Sharlely ‘Lilly’ Becker.

He additionally didn’t declare his share in a £1million property in his dwelling city of Leimen, Germany, hid a financial institution mortgage of just about £700,000 – value £1.1million with curiosity – and hid 75,000 shares in a tech agency, valued at £66,000.

But he continued to spend a whole bunch of kilos at luxurious division retailer Harrods, purchased on-line groceries at Ocado and handled himself to designer Ralph Lauren garments, jurors had heard.

He additionally allegedly hid round £950,000 from the sale of a Mercedes automotive dealership he owns in Germany, which was paid into his Boris Becker Private Office (BBPOL) account.

Becker was discovered responsible of elimination of property concerning 426,930 Euros (£350,000) to 9 recipients together with his ex-wives Barbara and Sharlely ‘Lilly’ Becker.

He was additionally convicted of making an attempt to hide the possession of his £1.8million villa ‘Im Schilling’ in his native Leimen, Germany, in addition to his possession of 75,000 Data Corp shares.

Jurors additionally discovered him responsible of concealing a mortgage of 825,000 Euros (£688,000) owed by him to the Bank Alpinum of Lichtenstein.

But he was cleared of all different fees together with failing at hand over 9 tennis trophies together with these received on the 1985 and 1989 Wimbledon match, the 1991 and 1996 Australian Open and the 1992 Olympics.

Becker had beforehand tried tax evasion value £1.4million in Germany in 2002.

Each rely carried a most sentence of seven years in jail. This afternoon, Judge Deborah Taylor sentenced the six-time Grand Slam champion to 30 months’ imprisonment, of which he’ll serve not less than half.

Referring to Becker’s earlier conviction, the decide mentioned this afternoon: ‘You didn’t heed the warning you got and the possibility you got by the suspended sentence and that could be a important aggravating issue.’

And she instructed father-of-four Becker: ‘I consider what has been described as your “fall from grace”. You have misplaced your profession and fame and all your property on account of your chapter.

‘You haven’t proven regret, acceptance of your guilt and have sought to distance your self out of your offending and your chapter. While I settle for your humiliation as a part of the proceedings, there was no humility.’

As he was led away, Becker was red-faced and appeared to battle together with his in a single day bag. His girlfriend Lilian De Carvalho Monteiro blew him a kiss earlier than he disappeared out of the courtroom to the cells beneath.

In an interview with 5 Live Breakfast, the three-time Wimbledon champion mentioned incarceration was a ‘actual punishment’ however that he had found that he’s a ‘survivor’.

 Where is Boris Becker now?

Boris was launched from jail in December 2022 on the early launch scheme after spending eight months of his sentence in Huntercomb jail, Oxon.

The tennis legend was accepted on to the scheme which permits ‘any international nationwide serving a set sentence who’s accountable for elimination from the UK to be faraway from jail and deported as much as 12 months earlier than the earliest launch level of their sentence’.

Becker was then deported to his homeland, Germany, the place he has snapped up a brand new job because the face of a brand new German tv promoting marketing campaign, promoting used motorhomes.

Becker was pictured final 12 months in a shoot for Wohn Mobil Park, posing in entrance of a camper with the road: ‘Visit someplace else extra typically: precisely my factor.’

Visit additionally interprets as ‘serve’ from the German.

Since his launch, Becker has made a variety of appearances as he appears to be like to rebuild his public persona.

On Thursday, November 19, he introduced his return to tennis as he revealed he was teaching the massively proficient Dane Holger Rune.

But, because the phrases of his launch from jail state he’s banned from getting into the UK – the icon was barred from Wimbledon this summer season and shall be nonetheless this 12 months.

With the assistance of business-savvy associate and threat analyst Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro, 34, Becker has secured a string of spectacular gigs regardless of the conviction.

Lilian is the official managing director of BFB GmbH (Boris Franz Becker), and is now steering Boris’s comeback course after his cut up from latest advisors.

In February final 12 months, the German took to the stage at a movie competition in Berlin to advertise his movie ‘Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker’, a documentary protecting his triumphs, failures and the whole lot in between.

In the movie Becker is seen solemnly accepting his conviction and wrestling together with his life’s missteps.

Becker then pocketed a large price for doing a TV interview with German broadcaster SAT 1., selected to stay in a boutique resort, and shortly landed a comfortable job as a commentator on Eurosport.

 Boris Becker: The rise and fall shall be aired on Tuesday at 9pm on ITV.