Abused at six, smoking at seven, selling drugs at eight: Dele Alli opens up on traumatic childhood
Dele Alli was sexually abused at the age of six and began selling drugs when he was eight. The 27-year-old footballer has opened up about his troubled childhood and admitted his life finally changed for the better when he was 12 and got adopted by an "amazing" family. Speaking to Gary Neville on his YouTube series 'The Overlap', he said: "[My childhood is] something I haven't really spoken about that much, to be honest. "I mean, I think there were a few incidents that could give you kind of a brief understanding. "So, at six, I was molested by my mum's friend, who was at the house a lot. My mu...