Mo Farah reveals that he was trafficked as a child

Four-time Olympic champion, the greatest British long-distance runner of all time, Mofarer, Obviously BBC interview It aired as part of a Wednesday night documentary, where he was illegally taken to England as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant at the age of nine.

Farrer said BBC His real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin, He was then taken from his home to live with his family in Djibouti at the age of eight, and then sent to England by an unrelated woman he had never met. The woman told him his new name was Mo Farah and tore his papers.

“For years I kept blocking it,” Farrer said. “But you can only block it for a very long time.” British marathon record holders previously said they came to the UK from Somalia with their parents as refugees, but now they are in the UK. Claims to have never been

His mother and two brothers live on a farm in Somalia, and his father AbdiFara was killed by a stray gun when she was four years old.

The 39-year-old long-distance runner claims that he was ordered to do household chores and childcare if he wanted to survive and see his family again.

Trafficking is the transportation of people for exploitative services or purposes.

Farah says running was a lifeline for him because running was the only thing he could do to escape his life. By the age of 14, he started making his name in sports.

“What saved me was what made me different from anyone else,” says Farrer. “I was able to run.”

documentary Real Farah Scheduled to be broadcast on Wednesday, July 13 BBC At 4 pm ET documentary, Fara took her son, Hussein, to Somalia to meet her mother. Aisha And his two brothers.

There is no set date for the documentary to air in Canada.