UFC CEO Dana White Makes Shocking Comments On Death Of His Parents
UFC CEO Dana White has opened up on the passing of his parents.
The former UFC president turned CEO recently had an interview with Piers Morgan. White was a bit taken aback when Morgan asked some personal questions about his rough upbringing, but he didn't take issue with making some shocking comments about the deaths of his parents.
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During the interview with Morgan, White answered the question of whether or not his rough relationship with his parents helped drive him to become as successful as he is today.
"I would say yes, absolutely," White said. "My relationship with my parents has definitely made me who I am today in many different ways. Not just in life and in business, but as a father too. So, I wouldn't change my upbringing, not one thing about it. I wouldn't change any of it."
White said he learned that he wanted to be nothing like his parents when he had children. When the UFC boss revealed to Morgan that his parents recently died, he admitted the following:
"I'm good with it, I'm good with everything," White said. "I focus a lot on my kids and my relationship with them, and I've sort of put my relationship with my parents behind me."
When Morgan asked White if he felt any sadness following the death of his parents, Dana White had a brutally honest response.
"I didn't wish any ill will on either one of my parents, but no, when they passed away I had almost no feelings about it, to be honest with you," White said.
White went on to say that he moved his father to Maine during his final days and had him with his family before he passed. As for the mother, White said he had nothing to do with helping her before she passed.
It's no secret that White and his mother had issues with one another. In an unauthorized biography of White back in 2011, his mother, June, called her son, "egotistical, self-centered, arrogant, and cruel."
Here's part of the Dana White interview with Piers Morgan:
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