Oscar De La Hoya Admits He 'Basically Ran Away' From Parenting Atiana As Travis Barker Stepped In!
21.07.2023 - 21:41
/ perezhilton.com
Oscar De La Hoya is getting real about some of his major parental shortcomings.
The former professional boxer spoke out this week on a podcast regarding how his now-24-year-old daughter Atiana De La Hoya was raised. And he’s being honest about how she wasn’t raised by him — but instead by Travis Barker.
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As Perezcious readers will recall, De La Hoya and his ex Shanna Moakler had Atiana back in 1999. The duo ended up splitting up just a year later, in 2000, after four years together. Then, in 2004, the former Playboy model tied the knot with the Blink-182 drummer. Soon thereafter, Shanna and Travis had children — Landon, who is now 19, and Alabama, who is now 17 — and lived the family life for a while before they split up.
Well, Atiana was obviously part of that family unit with Landon and Alabama growing up. The rock-and-roll drummer stepped up in a big way to raise her along with his own biological kids. And as the ex-boxer stepped back from his parenting duties, Travis stepped up and did the dad thing through Atiana’s life.
Now, Oscar is speaking up about the longstanding rift he had with his daughter. And he has some very interesting things to say as he comes clean about his rough parental past. The now-50-year-old former Olympic star sat down on Thursday for an episode of the Allison Interviews podcast.
During that chat, he acknowledged not being there for Atiana — and why he wasn’t around in the first place:
He went on to explain:
Damn…
Later in the interview, the former sports star went on to reveal that he had a difficult relationship with his own parents growing up. Oscar explained how his mom and dad never hugged him,