Oscar De La Hoya Reveals He Was Raped At 13

Oscar De La Hoya revealed he was raped at 13 years of age.

De La Hoya makes his return to boxing for the first time since 2008 when he takes on former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort on September 11.

And in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, De La Hoya made a revelation he had never shared before.

“I was raped at 13, from a woman, an older woman,” he said. “Thirteen, lost my virginity over being, you know, being raped, basically.”

The now 48-year-old revealed it happened during a tournament in Hawaii with the woman being over 35 years of age.

Fighting, however, was one way to distract himself from that trauma. But it didn’t always work.

“You suppress everything. You’re living this life, the Golden Boy, but, oh s— wait, that’s still there,” he added. “Like I never, like, thought about it, I never processed it, I never really thought how my feelings are … until one day it just comes out, and you don’t know how to deal with it.”

De La Hoya last competed in 2008 where he suffered a TKO defeat to Manny Pacquiao.