#327. Funniest Interview with Sporting & West Ham Legend - Kriss Akabusi

Dodge Woodall

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5 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Kriss Akabusi talks through his journey from a children’s home to Olympic glory. From abandonment as a child to winning medals on the world stage, his story is one of pain, resilience and triumph. He also opens up about the abuse he witnessed in care and the battles he fought to find his place in life.

This is the eventful life of Mr Kriss Akabusi MBE

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0:00.0	You've got to have this indelible, incontrovertible belief
0:05.0	that you are the best in the world.
0:08.0	Akabusi has made it!
0:10.0	Akabusi goals for Britain!
0:12.0	Tell me about 1984 representing at the Olympics.
0:16.0	You're there and you see Sebko, Steve Ovitz, Daley Thompson,
0:21.1	and you see all of these icons who you've been watching, and all of a sudden, you're getting your kick with end. Oh, wow. Yeah, so we all be quite... That's heavy, in it? Yeah, yeah, you know, there's no chocolate in there, mate. Is he said? Yeah. Boom, boom! Acaboosey in the room! This gregarious, happy-go-lucky.
0:38.3	Chris like a lot.
0:39.4	Large than life. Akabusi in the room! This gregarious, happy-go-lucky.
0:38.3	Chris Akabose!
0:39.3	Oh, wow!
0:40.3	Large than a live fella.
0:42.3	That guy is a result...
0:45.3	I've a lot of trauma in his life.
0:47.3	The most important thing was the abandonment from your mother.
0:50.3	You know, um, every night when I went to bed, I'd cry for my mum.
0:55.0	Mum isn't coming.
0:57.0	You've got to be enough.
0:59.0	That was one of the first times I'd made a commitment to myself to belong to something.
1:05.0	I needed this more than anything.
1:07.0	Sticks things away and it gets so deep you don't even know they're there.
1:11.4	When you said you were at children's home, as a kid, is the trauma there? Is that to cover up
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