Tyson and Paris Fury open up for first time after tragically losing baby prior to Oleksandr Usyk fight

Callum Vurley
Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:10:41 +0000

Paris Fury has spoken publicly for the first time about the devastating moment she learned her unborn baby had no heartbeat during what was meant to be a gender scan.

The 36-year-old mother of seven was six months into her pregnancy when she attended the appointment alone, just days before her husband Tyson's highly anticipated bout against Oleksandr Usyk.

"I went to the gender scan by myself. I thought 'Oh yeah, it's okay. Don't need anybody with me, done this many times'," Paris revealed in the second series of Netflix documentary At Home With The Furys.

"I went into the gender scan and got told there wasn't a heartbeat and I just walked outside and started to cry."

With fewer than seven days until the fight, Paris made the agonising decision to conceal her loss from Tyson, who was in training camp abroad.

When Paris failed to appear ringside in Saudi Arabia, Tyson sensed immediately that his worst fears had been realised.

"A pack of wild horses couldn't keep Paris away from them fights, so I thought to myself, 'Yeah, she's lost that baby, hundred percent'," the heavyweight boxer explained in the documentary.

The 37-year-old expressed profound regret at being thousands of miles away during his wife's darkest hour.

"For the first time in 20 years, I couldn't be there for her in her most needed time and that was the upsetting thing for me," Tyson said.

"I was in a foreign country, abroad, about to do the biggest thing of my life and I just wanted to be home for my wife."

The couple's reunion following Tyson's defeat to the Ukrainian fighter proved emotionally overwhelming for both.

Paris described the homecoming as almost cinematic in its tragedy, with husband and wife each bearing their own profound losses.

"He came home and it really did feel like something out of a movie. Like, Tyson's had all his belts took from him, I've had this baby took from me, and we've got to bury him," she recounted.

Tyson had surrendered his WBC world heavyweight title to Usyk in the bout, returning to England only to have his suspicions about the pregnancy confirmed.

Paris recalled her husband's words upon his return: "I knew, I just wanted to deny it. I didn't want to believe you."

The boxer had insisted that nothing would have kept him away had he known the truth.

The 2024 loss was tragically not the first time Paris had endured such heartbreak whilst shielding her husband from devastating news.

In 2014, she experienced a stillbirth at five months pregnant, something she has described as an experience she will never truly overcome.

Four years later, history repeated itself when Paris suffered another miscarriage on the very day Tyson made his long-awaited return to boxing against Sefer Seferi in June 2018, following a two-and-a-half-year absence from the ring.

Despite the weight of her experiences, Paris has found perspective in her blessings.

"I've had losses and it's part of my life and I've learned to be stronger with it but it is still a very emotional time and everybody would experience it differently," she reflected.

"Whatever we've got, we are very lucky. We are all fit and healthy, I've got seven lovely, beautiful healthy kids and it's just time to enjoy family life."