Tommy Fury, the 26-year-old boxer who first caught the public’s eye on ITV’s Love Island in 2019, has never shied away from the spotlight. But recently, he’s been letting the world in on some of the darkest moments of his personal life—moments that nearly cost him his career, his family, and his sense of self. As chronicled in the BBC Three docuseries Tommy: The Good. The Bad. The Fury, Fury’s journey over the past year has been anything but smooth. Yet, as of August 2025, he says his relationship with fiancée Molly-Mae Hague is “in the best place that we’ve ever been.”
For fans who have followed the couple since their Love Island days, this is welcome news. Fury and Hague, who share a two-year-old daughter named Bambi, have lived much of their adult lives in the public eye. Their whirlwind romance, engagement, and the birth of their daughter were all splashed across headlines and social media feeds. But in August 2024, just over a year after their engagement, the couple confirmed rumors that they had split.
The reason for the split, as Fury reveals in unflinching detail in his documentary, was not infidelity—as some speculated—but rather his battle with alcohol. According to The Mirror and the BBC, Fury began drinking heavily after sustaining a hand injury that sidelined him from boxing. “The reason for ending the relationship was alcohol,” Fury admits in the series. “I couldn’t train, box, lift weights, that was all gone.”
Fury’s drinking spiraled out of control. He openly confessed, “I hold my hands up, drink got hold of me – 20 shots a night, 20 beers. Every day I would have a drink and I would drink to get blackout drunk, and that is what led to me not being the right partner to Molly.” The loss of his athletic outlet left him adrift, and he sought solace in the bottle. “The only thing that made me feel like I was back in that moment of thousands of fans again was picking up and having a drink, but having a drink was what cost me my entire family. The reason why everything went to s, I went through the worst year of my life, I went through a crisis, was because I couldn’t fight.”
Fury’s father, John Fury, who has witnessed similar struggles with his other son, heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, urged Molly-Mae to leave Tommy if he didn’t change. “I did say to Molly, because she came to me, what you’re best off doing with him, Molly, is walking away, because if he’s not going to change himself, he doesn’t think that much of you,” John Fury said, according to the BBC.
When Molly-Mae finally walked out, taking Bambi with her, Fury was so intoxicated that he barely remembers the moment. “I’ve never even said this before, but when they’d actually left the house, I was actually drunk at that point, so I don’t actually remember it that well, which was even more upsetting. I woke up. I was like shit, and I was listening to probably the silence of the house for like an hour. I was like, f. And that was the last time they’ve been here. I’m not going to lie and say I knew the feeling of what it was like when they walked out – I didn’t because I was intoxicated.”
The separation was a wake-up call. Fury realized he had to change—not just for himself, but for his daughter and the woman he loved. In a moment of raw honesty captured in the documentary, he reflects, “At the end of the day, my sole purpose was to get Molly and Bambi back here, back under one roof, back like before. I’ve had to sort myself out and put my a in gear. They’ve stuck by me through thick and thin, and I’m so grateful for it.”
But just as Fury began to rebuild his life, another setback threatened to derail his progress. In the sixth episode of the BBC docuseries, Fury is seen facing yet another hand injury after a fight—a moment that left him “shaking” and fearing for his career. “After the fight, I took the glove off and it was massive. So that’s when the worry started to seep in. Ah f, my career is over,” he confided to the cameras. The injury felt eerily similar to the one that had previously upended his life. “It doesn’t feel great, to be honest. It feels exactly the same as it did when it was bad. I can’t stop it shaking and it’s killing me. I’m just praying that I’m not in the same boat as I was.”
Medical uncertainty loomed large. Fury was rushed to the doctor and awaited the results of an MRI scan, clinging to hope that the surgery he’d undergone on his hand was still holding. “The hand is still badly swollen and badly bruised. I’m praying that all the surgery that was done and performed is still intact. I’m praying that nothing has come out or come loose or that nothing is torn or damaged.” He added, “I won the fight but hopefully I ain’t lost the war.”
Throughout these tribulations, Fury has been candid about the mental toll of living in the public eye and the importance of sharing his struggles. At the Manchester premiere for the docuseries, he told PA News Agency, “At the end of the day, we’re keeping everything between me and Molly private. Now we’re in the best place that we’ve ever been, and that’s just down to you know, just down to me and sorting me head out to be honest and becoming the partner that I always knew I could be and the partner she deserves.”
He continued, “We’ve gone from kids to adults in the public eye. We changed our life in the public eye. So we’re very used to it. But I think now it’s just about keeping a little bit of something private for us, having something special for us.”
As for the decision to open up so publicly, Fury explained, “There’s no good bottling things up. And I thought, if I’m going to do a documentary I want it to be real. I want to do a real documentary. And that’s why I said, open the cameras up. Let people see, see me at my lowest. See me at my highest. See me winning. See the losses. I don’t want to shy away from that. Life’s not all glitz and glamour and great all the time, there’s ups and there’s downs. And I want people to see that, and if they can take something away from it, amazing.”
For now, the couple appears to have weathered the storm. Molly-Mae has said she believes their relationship is “worth saving,” and Fury’s resolve seems stronger than ever. Part one of Tommy: The Good. The Bad. The Fury is available on BBC iPlayer and BBC Three, with part two scheduled for later in the year. As Fury continues to fight his battles—both in and out of the ring—his story serves as a reminder that even in the glare of fame, redemption is possible, and some things are still worth fighting for.
