Sir Mo Farah has revealed the truth about his youth as a child trafficked to the UK from Somaliland in a new BBC documentary. The Real Mo Farah will air on BBC One on Wednesday July 13 at 9pm, and on BBC iPlayer at 6am.
The hour-long BBC documentary will focus on how Mo was brought to the UK as a nine-year-old child and poorly treated as a “servant” for another family. The Olympic medallist said: “There’s something about me you don’t know. It’s a secret that I've been hiding since I was a child.”
In the one-off documentary, the long distance runner reveals that his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin and that he grew up during the Somali civil war. He shares that his father was killed in the civil war when he was four years old leaving his family “torn apart”.
