The Strictly professional turned judge was attacked by his alcoholic father one Boxing Day and spent several days in hospital recovering.
has revealed that he was stabbed by his dad as a child, spending several days in hospital after the attack., the Strictly dancer turned judge said that his father Antal, who Anton described as an alcoholic, stabbed him in the leg and the stomach in an incident which took place on Boxing Day at the family’s home in Kent.“I got stabbed in the leg and in the stomach because of a fight on Boxing Day and it was an idiotic situation,” Anton said.
“The alcoholism and the violence... [it was] towards me, because I was a boy, a young man I suppose,” Anton added. “You’ve got an alcoholic father and a situation where if you’re in the house, [he’s] drinking then you end up with the fights and stuff.“You’d move room to get away from all of it and then he follows you in and the next thing you know the violence starts and then it came to a head one evening, I ended up in hospital for three days.
Whenever he was asked about the leg injury, he told people that he had “pulled a hamstring” to avoid sharing the story.Anton’s father was eventually cleared in court for the attack. When he died, his son chose not to attend the funeral.
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