Oscar De La Hoya’s Kids on Estrangement

Oscar De La Hoya’s oldest youngsters — Jacob, Devon and Atiana — are past candid as they focus on their absentee father partially 2 of his new documentary, The Golden Boy.

The retired boxer welcomed his two eldest sons with totally different ladies in 1998 — throughout his romance with Atiana’s mom, Shanna Moakler. Whereas Jacob’s mother is De La Hoya’s ex-girlfriend Toni Alvarado, Devon was born after De La Hoya had a one-night stand with Angelique McQueen. As De La Hoya’s struggles with substance abuse escalated, he left Moakler for Millie Corretjer in 2000. The spouses relocated to Puerto Rico, happening to welcome three extra youngsters.

“I might solely see him sometimes, possibly, like, annually,” Atiana recalled within the doc. “And I keep in mind — I feel it may need been fourth grade or one thing — and we have been purported to get dinner after which go to Coloration Me Mine as a result of I beloved artwork. And I keep in mind attempting to consider, like, what I might say. Like, ‘Am I going to name him dad?’ And I keep in mind going to Coloration Me Mine and he painted, like, a cheeseburger and I had the cheeseburger in my room for … it’s in all probability nonetheless someplace, to be sincere.”

Atiana, who’s extraordinarily near former stepfather Travis Barker, defined that she heard about her dad greater than she noticed him. “I feel lots of people knew him higher than I did as a result of they watched his profession. So my thought of him wasn’t essentially from our relationship, nevertheless it was extra from who I used to be advised he was,” she stated.

Jacob advised an identical story. “Once I was 7 or 8, I feel we went to Chuck E. Cheese or one thing after which he’d disappear for a pair years,” he stated. “He supported me financially, paid for my education. However apart from that, he wasn’t that guardian determine.”

De La Hoya admitted he “left it as much as the moms to take care” of Jacob, Devon and Atiana.

“I used to be going to Large Bear a number of instances as a result of I do know he used to coach up there. I’d see my uncle, my grandpa and my dad and Millie. [They’d say], ‘These are your half-siblings, you recognize, say hello,’” Jacob detailed. “[Millie] was very household oriented and she or he wished to carry everybody nearer and have everybody have that relationship with their father. However, I in all probability felt some type of ache or anger, unhappiness. My dad — he’s not the largest communicator. Your emotions have been your emotions and, you recognize, they don’t imply something. You progress on and recover from it.”

De La Hoya went on to disclose that Corretjer didn’t even know Devon existed till she examine her husband having two sons within the media. “I feel she came upon about Devon in a gossip journal. She was pissed. It wasn’t a nice dialog, to say the least,” he confessed.

Devon, for his half, stated his dad was simply “the man on TV” and who he watched on YouTube.

“My mother tells me tales in regards to the struggle when he obtained knocked down. And I used to be simply screaming and crying as a result of I assumed he died,” Devon stated. “He raised me via a display screen, virtually. It’s simply exhausting, [like], ‘You’re hanging out along with your different youngsters, why not me?’ Youngsters would say I’m just a few rotten, spoiled child whose father’s Oscar De La Hoya. [They’d say], ‘You might have every little thing you need on this world.’ I had nothing.”

Devon, who was dwelling in Las Vegas along with his mom, took up an curiosity in boxing as one thing he might “latch on to” to have “that connection” along with his dad. “It was virtually like I knew him. However he knew nothing about me,” he stated. “I used to be simply confused. What’s holding him again?”

De La Hoya’s rationalization for not figuring out Devon when he was rising up was that “time simply goes by” and issues “turned messy.”

“Then I’m similar to, ‘Ah f—ok. Let me simply return and deal with my one factor that makes me pleased and that’s been within the ring and f—king preventing,’” he stated earlier than admitting he was “scared” to confront his previous.

After 16 years, Devon — who famous his mom tried to contact De La Hoya via his group and legal professionals — reached out to his dad by way of Instagram.

“I stated, ‘Hey, you recognize, now’s the time. I’m grown sufficient to grasp. … Let’s simply be each the larger man and simply get this over with.’ I met him after I was 16,” Devon stated, recalling assembly his dad at a Mexican restaurant in a non-public room at MGM. “He got here to the again door. And I noticed and I simply began bawling. … The feelings going via my physique have been simply unhappy, pleased — the entire 9. But additionally offended. I simply wished to hug him, but additionally, you recognize, I simply wished to f—king punch him within the face. However I simply held him as tight as might and I didn’t need to let go.”

De La Hoya referred to as the scenario his largest remorse. “Once I first noticed him, all I noticed in his eyes was the ache that I induced,” he stated. “That killed me.”

Whereas they didn’t develop up collectively, Jacob, Devon and Atiana finally bonded.

“The primary time I met [Devon, I sat next to him on the same plane,” Atiana said of the siblings traveling to a fight in Texas. “You don’t realize, like, how much you have in common with your brother that you never knew. We’re gonna become best friends, but then we’re kind of like, ‘Why would you sit us on a plane next to each other for us to, like, meet for the first time?’ So we got to Texas and we had hotel rooms directly next to each other.”

Devon recalled that Jacob was on the same trip: “I was in my hotel room and my brother knocked on my door. It was just like, ‘Hey brother.’ And we just hugged it out.”

“I’ve developed a close relationship with my younger brother Devon and Atiana,” Jacob added. “Looking at it now, we’ve all kind of been struggling with the same things, which is something that we can relate on.”

Atiana acknowledged that they “all grew up really differently” but have a lot in common. “I guess what I didn’t expect was how similar we all are. We’re the same three people,” she said.

“We tell each other all the time how much we love each other,” Devon, who now works at Golden Boy with De La Hoya, explained. “We, more than our dad, look out for each other.”

De La Hoya concluded that he was a “coward” who wished his mother was alive to give him guidance when his oldest children were born. “She would have reminded me, ‘Son, that kid is your priority now. F—k boxing. Jacob, Devon and Atiana, these are your championship belts. These are your gold medals,’” he said.

Jacob, Devon and Atiana noted that their relationships with De La Hoya are still “rocky” amid his issues with drinking. The siblings remembered calling out their dad for an embarrassing, drunk Instagram Live in recent years.

“There’s no one in his life that’s going to say no to him,” Atiana said. “We are the only people that can do that. … He’s asked for forgiveness and he’s also made it clear that he’s going to try to do better. It’s the best thing that someone can ask for.”

Atiana’s mom, Moakler, was also featured in the doc.

“He and I actually went to dinner not that long ago,” Moakler said. “He said, ‘You know, you didn’t deserve that. I’m truly, truly sorry for humiliating you and hurting you.’ And it was sincere and it was like I had, like, that glimmer of a friend back and I hadn’t seen him since he had left me. … But I still think he’s a work in progress.”

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Parts 1 and 2 of The Golden Boy are streaming now on Max.