[Tyson:] After I left prison, I have to admit I was scared. You ain`t going to believe this
[Hammer:] Right now an Iron Mike "SHOWBIZ Newsmaker." Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson has traded the ring for the stage with his one-man show. It`s a no-holds-barred account of his wild and controversial life. The drugs, the violence, the fame. Well, tonight I am one-on-one with the boxing legend to get all of the secrets about his remarkably revealing show. Plus, I`ve got another epic newsmaker interview for you tonight. Fantasia just make her stunning return to "American Idol", the place, of course, where everything started for her. She brought down the house. And tonight Fantasia is in the "SHOWBIZ" house. She is revealing how she turned her life around after years of pain and struggle. "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT" continues right now. Welcome back to "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT." Thank you for watching. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York. And tonight I`m so excited to bring this to you. Mike Tyson, unplugged. You have got to hear what he just told me, just this afternoon, in the headline making SHOWBIZ Newsmaker interview. Former heavy weight boxing champion was once known as the baddest man on the planet. He went through some really hard times. But now his life has taken a dramatic return. And he has swapped out the gloves and boxing ring for the national stage. Taking his hit one man real life show on a national tour. Next stop is this Sunday, in New York, and to be considered: the name of the show, "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth." Terrific to see you, Mike.
[Mike Tyson:] Thank you.
[A J:] Thanks for spending some time with us.
[Tyson:] A.J., I have been seeing you over the years and it`s just awesome stuff.
[Hammer:] Oh, thanks. Look. Now I`m blushing.
[Tyson:] Oh,
[A.j.! Hammer:] You`re making me blush. Well, let`s talk about you. Because that`s why we are her. Let`s talk about this amazing show, I mean, it is remarkable, Mike, that you get up on stage for two hours and you just put it all out there. Such raw talk about everything in your life. The good, the bad, the ugly. And you deal with some pretty difficult things that you have had to deal with in life including, of course, the very tragic loss of your four-year-old daughter. I want to take a look at a clip of you talking about that.
[Tyson:] And when they saw me, [inaudible] babies were dying, they ran to me like I`m some special guy like because my baby died. I`m special. They grabbed me and ran and started praying with me, and they couldn`t speak English. And I realized that, I was a member of a club that I didn`t want to join.
[Hammer:] Wow. So Mike, I see you getting so raw, and you`re doing it night after night. I got to wonder why are you doing it? Why are you putting yourself out there like that?
[Tyson:] Well, you know, A.J., I want to do something with my life. I like entertaining people. Through boxing, I`ve learned I loved entertaining people, but even though I had done it through boxing, this is what I still like to do, even though I can`t box anymore. So I`m just here to entertain people. That`s what I want to do.
[Hammer:] So, you`re actually feeding off of that energy?
[Tyson:] 100 percent.
[Hammer:] That you get from...
[Tyson:] A 100 percent. A.J. And it`s just shocking. I have to say, Michael, when we see you putting it all out there, you`re talking about those raw moments in your life, how hard is it for you to relive all of that on a big stage in front of a big audience every night? Well, I don`t know. Most of the people there, they know what they have lived through it with me. Because most of the issues that I speak about are just headline issues. It`s something that people would they saw it in the papers before, they just never heard it through my perspective, you know, through my eyes. It may be different to my marriage and my wife, anybody else that was involved with me back then, but through my eyes and my perspective, I`m just giving them a chronological idea of how I lived my life till now.
[Hammer:] And in a way setting the record straight about some things that people may have a misperception about.
[Tyson:] I don`t know if it is setting the record straight, but it`s from my view. I mean, coming from my view. They may have different perceptions of it.
[Hammer:] And how you lived it. And of course, everybody loves hearing about your incredible famed boxing career. You hold that record, Mike. At 20 years old, the youngest heavyweight champion ever. That`s still your record, that`s pretty cool.
[Tyson:] I also hold the record for being the fastest knock-out in the [inaudible].
[Hammer:] And here you are all these years later, and they are still yours, which I know is pretty great to you.
[Tyson:] I am just happy to be alive. I am very grateful that I can actually entertain people by just telling them about my life, which is something that everybody knew about, but they still want to know about.
[Hammer:] I have to imagine you miss being in the ring? As much as you love being up on stage?
[Tyson:] No way.
[Hammer:] Not at all?
[Tyson:] No way. That`s over. And to be that guy, the Mike Tyson, the baddest man on the planet, whoever the hell I was back then, I have to be a totally different than I want. Just because I have a family. Just this was I don`t know if my kids would like me if I`m that person. But this person, I can get along with my kids and we`re friends, and my wife loves me and I love her. And I don`t care how much I love somebody, if I`m in that state of state of constant combat and competition and war, there is no way I`m going to get along with my loved ones or even my close friends.
[Hammer:] So [inaudible] probably it`s been no good for you.
[Tyson:] No doubt about it, because this is where it is right now. The gregarious, happy, non-threatening black guy. This is where I want to be, right here.
[Hammer:] Listen, there is no question that boxing made you an incredibly wealthy man. You talk very candidly about that. You made, I don`t know, $300 to $400 million, and then it went away. Is losing all that money, Mike, one of the great regrets of your life?
[Tyson:] No way. Listen, I had an awesome time. And even though I had a lot of money and had a great life, it can`t even it doesn`t even stand the chance it does not even stand the test of time against the life I`m living now. And that`s what I realized. It`s an inside job. Basically, A.J., I don`t care, if you are looking for happiness from the outside world and all this materialism and all this, just the world that we live in, it`s going to be disastrous. It`s all an inside job. If you`re not happy from within, if it`s not working from in here, it`s not going to work.
[Hammer:] You talk about your mom in the show.
[Tyson:] Yes, yes, I do.
[Hammer:] I want to read a line that stuck out to me. You said, "they said my mother died of cancer. I think she died of a broken heart." What exactly did you mean by that?
[Tyson:] My mother is just I have a lot of characteristics, my mother was a constant depressed, my mother was totally a depressed woman. And she didn`t take any medicine for it, she just drank alcohol and smoke cigarettes. That`s what happened to my mother. And I think I suffer from those things. I could be champ of the world, and then all of a sudden within [inaudible], I`m depressed.
[Hammer:] That still happen?
[Tyson:] Not as much. No, no. It`s just who I am. It`s just going to be it`s going to be in my life to the day I die, not so commanding like it was before, but it`s just a part of me.
[Hammer:] And we have seen you re-invent yourself through this one-man show, and we have seen you re-invent yourself, Mike, as a movie star now. And I know everybody must want to talk to you about your appearances in "The Hangover" movies, because quite frankly, you were fantastic. I mean, the producers of this movie, the writers, they took your love of tigers and they turned it into a great punch line in "Hangover" one. And in "Hangover Two," we got to see it, showing off your fantastic singing chops. Shall we take a look at that?
[Tyson:] Please do. I like this part of the show. One night in the Vegas and the world`s your oyster. [inaudible] but the pearls ain`t free.
[Hammer:] First of all, Mike, please tell me you actually sing in real life a little better than that?
[Tyson:] No. As a matter of fact, it was pretty good. I got paid more than most professional singers get paid.
[Hammer:] I think Murray Head was the guy who originally had a hit with that song back in the 1980s. I think you made more money that was his one hit. I think you made more money singing "One Night in Bangkok." I think you probably made more money singing it than he did.
[Tyson:] One night in Bangkok, and the world`s my oyster.
[Hammer:] All right. We get it. I`m kidding. So listen, "Hangover III" is about to come out, we`re all very excited about that. We know you`re in it, but I haven`t really heard what you`re doing. So would you break a little news? Come on, Mike, give me something. What are we going to see?
[Tyson:] Hey, the executives said, Mike, don`t say anything.
[Hammer:] And you listen to those executives?
[Tyson:] Big time.
[Hammer:] So you`re a movie star. A Broadway star. You have obviously come such a long way and clearly you`re in a much different space than you were some 20 years ago.
[Tyson:] No, five years ago.
[Hammer:] Well, that as well, but talking about what happened some 20 years ago, you went to prison for three years after being convicted of raping a beauty pageant contestant. And I know you still maintain your innocence in that case. But if you would, take me back to the moment. You step into that cell. The door closes behind you. What`s going through your mind at that time?
[Tyson:] I`m very depressed. I really prepared for it. So I was prepared to go through the situation. But I just wanted to live my life, every day. That`s what you had to do. Everything you had outside, you have to check it at the door and go into this place a different person.
[Hammer:] Well, it`s been an absolute pleasure sitting here and talking with you, Mike.
[Tyson:] Thank you, brother AJ.
[Hammer:] It really was. My thanks to Mike Tyson. Mike`s next stop on his national tour is going to be this Sunday at the famed Beacon Theater in New York City. And I am ready to fire up yet another high wattage news maker interview tonight. All right. Fantasia just blew everybody away with her incredible return to "American Idol." Wow, can she sing. And Fantasia is right here tonight to tell me how she got herself back on top with an amazing new album after years of gut-wrenching struggle. Fantasia is not the only one who is revealing all tonight. Oh, no. I`m going to show you the real face of Hollywood. Some of entertainment`s top stars going without make-up in "People" magazine`s fascinating most beautiful edition. You have got to see your favorite stars totally bare. And wait until you see what we have named tonight as our moment of "SHOWBIZ" awesomeness. This is SBT, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, on HLN.