Evra's shocking statement: "I sold drugs and ate from the rubbish"

Patrice Evra's upbringing was not easy. Despite football rapidly taking over his life and the money soon following, the Frenchman lived a difficult youth. He revealed this in a recent interview with the 'BBC' and another for 'The Times'. 

"I'm not ashamed for feeling like a coward for so many years for not speaking about it. It was something I couldn't get off my chest. But I'm not doing this for me, but for the children. I don't want anyone to feel ashamed for living like this", he expressed.

"Selling drugs. Begging in front of the shop. Sometimes even at midnight, when they throw away the cold 'Big Macs', we were going into the bin. I think when my dad left it was like chaos. The football saved me", he revealed.

Nevertheless, he left the interview on a positive note: "When I was 17, I travelled to Italy (he went from Marseille to Monza before signing for Nice in 2002). I remember when we arrived and we were sitting all the time and they were serving us food. I got into my room. I wore a tracksuit and I called my Mum and said, 'Mum, here is like heaven, people are serving us food, it's like two forks in one side, two knives in one side'. That's my best memory".