Topics: Eddie Hall, MMA
Eddie Hall was reduced to tears as he opened up on a traumatic and emotional incident as he addressed a viral video where he appeared to chase motorists outside his home.
Former World's Strongest Man Hall went viral after a video showed him confronting the drivers when they left his children "very scared" by allegedly beeping horns outside his house in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 9pm on Monday.
In a 30-second clip, Hall was heard screaming at one of the drivers in an expletive-filled rant and then charged at the vehicle - with a young child crying in the background.
Hall shouted: "F**k off, or I'll f**king do you all. F**k off ... I couldn't give a f**k. What about my kids?"
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Hall then continued and said: "Get out. Get out, you f**king p***k. I'll rip your f**king head off. "All of you. Get out and I'll f**king rip all your heads off, you p***k."
After the video came to light, the 37-year-old issued a comment on his social media platforms before addressing the incident further in a 30-minute video and giving his version of events.
Discussing how he felt he and his family were harrassed, he said he was unfairly painted as "an ogre" and asked for people to "leave his family alone".
With wife Alexandra, Hall has three children - as well as a daughter from a previous relationship. But in a highly emotional part of his latest video, the MMA fighter revealed that after he and his wife lost their baby, he was asked to pose for a picture with a fan as he left the hospital.
With the trauma still fresh, Hall politely declined but was then insulted in person and online and said that in those situations, being in the spotlight "haunts" his life.
"I'll tell you how bad it gets for me," Hall stated.
"Quite a while ago, Alex miscarried. We lost our baby. And as I'm walking out of the hospital, someone asked me for a picture.
"I said, 'Not today mate'. He called me a 'pr***' and went online. He said, 'I asked Eddie Hall for a picture today, he's too big time, what a pr***'.
"I can't even lose a child without someone coming to ask me to stand there and smile for their f***ing precious picture for Instagram or Facebook."
Hall continued: "It f***ing haunts my life. And then you get f***ers like this who think it's okay to f***ing harass you any day of the f***ing week - whenever it pleases them on their time.
"I am genuinely sorry I upset your children and genuinely sorry for anyone I've upset for saying no to a picture when I'm with a family or at home. But everyone has their limits and as you can see I am a human being with emotions and feelings, like everybody else."
In regards to the incident on Monday, Staffordshire Police confirmed they had been called and appealed for anyone with further information to come forward.
Hall, meanwhile, asked for the public to avoid contacting the pair of cousins he was in the dispute with, commenting: "Please no one contact, abuse or harass the people involved in the incident. They have young children and I don't want any emotional or especially physical harm whatsoever to come to them or their families."
