 He had a rough upbringing as a child, particularly with his father, and in his autobiography said that this tough upbringing left him emotionally traumatised.His father came from an even more violent family himself, and was partially crippled at the age of 19 after being attacked by his father with a hammer.An only child, he described his family as "incredibly poor", and until the age of 11 he slept in the corner of his parent's bedroom – the family shared a three-storey house with two other families and the only other room they had was a living room.