Dele Alli 明らかにする／漏らすs he was sexually 乱用d 老年の six: Tearful football 星／主役にする 述べるs 外傷／ショック at 存在 （性的に）いたずらするd by a friend of his アル中患者 mother - and lays 明らかにする how he recently went to rehab after becoming （麻薬）常用者d to sleeping pills

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Dele Alli has bravely 明らかにする／漏らすd that he checked himself into rehab to kick an 中毒 to sleeping tablets and 直面する his traumatic childhood.

In a heartbreaking interview with The Overlap, the Everton 攻撃者 has spoken 率直に about his difficulties in 最近の years.

Alli was 先触れ（する）d as a generational talent during his 早期に days at Tottenham but his career has not turned out the way many 予報するd.

The England 星／主役にする 現れるd as one of the country's best young talents にもかかわらず a troubled childhood that saw him taken into foster care.

And speaking candidly to Gary Neville, Alli has 公表する／暴露するd he spent a 最近の （一定の）期間 in a rehab 施設 and 株d 詳細（に述べる）s from his traumatic childhood, 含むing the 発覚 that he was （性的に）いたずらするd as a child by a friend of his mother's.?

A young Dele Alli pictured with a football as a child, left, next to an adult Alli in his Everton 道具, 権利

During a harrowing interview with Gary Neville, the Everton and Tottenham 星／主役にする also spoke out about how he was （性的に）いたずらするd as a young boy, 老年の six

Dele Alli 明らかにする／漏らすd that he spent six weeks at a rehab centre in the US this summer after returning from his 貸付金 （一定の）期間 in Turkey

Alli 株d harrowing 詳細（に述べる）s of his traumatic childhood, 含むing an 出来事/事件 that saw him （性的に）いたずらするd by a friend of his 生物学の mother's.?

'(My childhood is) something I 港／避難所't really spoken about that much, to be honest. I mean, I think there were a few 出来事/事件s that could give you 肉親，親類d of a 簡潔な／要約する understanding,' Alli continued.?

'So, at six, I was （性的に）いたずらするd by my mum's friend, who was at the house a lot. My mum was an アル中患者, and that happened at six. I was sent to Africa to learn discipline, and then I was sent 支援する.?

'At seven, I started smoking, eight I started 取引，協定ing 麻薬s. An older person told me that they wouldn't stop a kid on a bike, so I 棒 around with my football, and then underneath I'd have the 麻薬s, that was eight. Eleven, I was hung off a 橋（渡しをする） by a guy from the next 広い地所, a man.'

Alli was born a year after his parents Denise and Kehinde met in a nightclub.?

Born Bamidele Jermaine Alli, his birth parents 分裂（する） when he was three years old.

As a child, he spent time living with his millionaire father in Nigeria, in a ten-room mansion …に出席するing a 私的な school and waited on by three maids, before returning to his alcohol mother 老年の 11 after his father remarried and moved to Houston, Texas.??

Denise 以前 述べるd his しつけ as 'rough', with Dele himself admitting he fell in with 'the wrong （人が）群がる' when he was growing up as a 青年 in Milton Keynes, and would hang out with older boys on the streets until 2am.

But prodigious football talent was quickly spotted and he began training with MK Dons five days a week, and moved in with team-mate Harry Hickford's family.

Alli 株d that his life turned around in a sensational fashion when he was 広告 選ぶd by Alan and Sally Hickford.?He is 極端に の近くに with his family, and is 現在／一般に managed by his brother, Harry.?

Denise has （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that 許すing Allito do so was born out of convenience, as he could get to training with greater 緩和する.?

He has since chosen to 減少（する） his surname from his shirts as he says he feels no 関係 with the Alli family 指名する.?

The Everton midfielder has not spoken to his mother Denise since 2015 and moved in with his friend Harry after 存在 可決する・採択するd at 12

Dele pictured at his father?Kehinde's second marriage, in Houston, Texas

Alli's talent for football shone through, and with the support of his の近くに 可決する・採択するd family, he was able to build a dazzling 早期に career at Tottenham

Speaking of his adoptive parents, Alli told The Overlap: 'Twelve, I was 可決する・採択するd ? and from then, it was like ? I was 可決する・採択するd by an amazing family like I said, I couldn't have asked for better people to do what they'd done for me. If God created people, it was them.?

'They were amazing, and they've helped me a lot, and that was another thing, you know ? when I started living with them, it was hard for me to really open up to them, because I felt within myself, it was 平易な to get rid of me again. I tried to be the best kid I could be for them. I stayed with them from 12, and then started playing first-team, professionally, at 16. It all sort of took off from there.'?

In rehab, Alli 株d, he was taught to consider his childhood in a different light.?

'They taught me in rehab, I'm not 許すd to say I was a bad kid but I got in trouble a lot, you know, with the police. I had no 支配するs, I grew up without any 支配するs. Like I said, my mum she drank a lot and I don't 非難する her at all for what happened.?

'I think going to [rehab] really helped me understand her and the things she was going through and what she had to を取り引きする, and it was all she knew.

As a child, Alli was 伴う／関わるd in a number of harrowing experiences, 含むing 存在 hung from a 橋（渡しをする） by a grown man

Gary Neville supported Alli throughout their difficult interview, 許すing the player to open up

現在／一般に 回復するing from 傷害, Alli is 的ing a strong return at Everton and a 'big season'

'Me going into rehab now has helped me understand her ? it was all she knew. Like, even when she let me go and I got 可決する・採択するd, she knew and I knew that it was what was needed to even have a chance of living the life I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to live and be successful. And because it was only going one way if I stayed there.'

The 衝撃 of his difficult childhood led to feelings of betrayal in the player, and Alli 明言する／公表するd that he has no 利益／興味 in a 関係 with either his 生物学の mother or father.?

'I don't speak to my mum anymore,' Alli 追加するd. 'So, when I was 18, my 生物学の mum and dad went to the newspaper and like, started 告発する／非難するing the family that 可決する・採択するd me of doing all this stuff when they didn't know what they had, like they were the ones that used to make me go and see my mum. I never 手配中の，お尋ね者 to go.?

'They would always tell me, "She's your mum, like you should have a 関係 with her". And I think that spoke volu mes, like what they were doing. They were just doing it 一般に because they're amazing people. So yeah.

'And then my mum ? my 血 mum and dad ? went to the 圧力（をかける） 説 that these people are taking advantage of me. They want to go through my 契約s. And I hadn't spoken to him for years. And I knew that wasn't my mum's 決定／判定勝ち（する） because I know she didn't really leave Milton Keynes. Like there was no way she'd done that.?

Alli 株d that he has felt 'betrayed' by both of his 生物学の parents and does not have a 関係 with either his mother or father

Alli 明らかにする／漏らすd that he struggled with his mother's alcoholism as a child

'After that I just felt so betrayed and let 負かす／撃墜する. And 傷つける that I just couldn't keep the 関係 with my mum. And my dad, I don't want a 関係 with him either.'

Discussing his 中毒, he?said: 'I got （麻薬）常用者d to sleeping tablets, it's a problem not only I have. It's going around?more than people realise in football.

'Now is probably the 権利 time to tell people. It's 堅い to talk about it as it's やめる 最近の and something I've hid for a long time and I'm 脅すd to talk about.

'When I （機の）カム 支援する from Turkey (に引き続いて a 貸付金 （一定の）期間 at Besiktas) I （機の）カム 支援する and 設立する out I needed an 操作／手術.

'I was in a bad place mentally. I decided to go to a modern rehab 施設 that 取引，協定s with 中毒 and mental health and 外傷／ショック. I felt it was time for me.

'You can't be told to go there, you have to make the 決定／判定勝ち（する） yourself.

'I was in a bad cycle. I was relying on things that were doing me 害（を与える）. I was waking up every day, winning the fight going into training every day smiling - willing to show I was happy.

'Inside I was losing the 戦う／戦い and it was time to change. When I was told I needed 外科 I could feel the feelings I had when the cycle began.

'So I went there for six weeks. Everton were amazing and supported I will be 感謝する to them for ever. For them to be so honest and understanding I couldn't ask for anything more during a time I was making the biggest 決定／判定勝ち（する） of my life - doing something I was 脅すd to do. I'm happy I've done it.'

The player also discussed 'the stigma' around rehabilitation 施設s, 説: 'Going into rehab is scary but I could never have imagined how much I would get from it.

'I was in a bad place. A lot happened to me when I was younger that I couldn't understand and I was doing stupid things that I 非難する myself for.

'Going there and learning about it, it was never really under my 支配（する）／統制する.

'Understanding learning it has helped. I let go of some bad feelings I was 持つ／拘留するing which was slowing me 負かす／撃墜する.

The player is managed by his brother Harry and Alli has credited the Hickford family with his successes over the years

It （機の）カム as Dele spoke in harrowing 詳細（に述べる） about his traumatic childhood, which saw him 存在 （性的に）いたずらするd at six?

Dele Alli pictured with his girlfriend?Cindy Kimberley, 24, who has been dating him since last summer?

Instead, Alli 設立する solace not only in the の近くに 関係 he has with his 可決する・採択するd family, but in football, and in particular, his 関係 with then-Tottenham coach Pochettino.?

'Mauricio Pochettino was the best 経営者／支配人 and I couldn't have asked for a better 経営者／支配人 at the time. I was in him and his team, you know, not just him. There was Jesus (Perez), Miguel (d'Agostino) and Tony (Jimenez). They are amazing people and they're so understanding, and it wasn't like a footballer and a 経営者／支配人 関係. It was deeper than that, I felt.?

'He was just so understanding of the 決定／判定勝ち（する）s I was making, and he was guiding ? like, he cared about me as a person before the football, which is what I needed at that time. And I think that's important for young players.

'When you go somewhere it can be やめる scary, I think. And I never had that 恐れる of, you know, trying to 証明する myself in that sense, because I felt like he was giving me the 壇・綱領・公約 to 表明する myself the best I could and to be comfortable. I mean, players always used to say, "I want to be like that" (fearless). I wasn't fearless. I was just 勇敢に立ち向かう. But I think 存在 勇敢に立ち向かう, you feel the 恐れる still, but you still do it. And I think that's something that he 許すd me to do.

'So yeah, I think (Pochettino) helped a lot in that period of my career, which is why it was 堅い for me when he left. Because, you know, then you [get] new 経営者／支配人s, and it was hard for me to let anyone in at that point and to be open. And I felt like everything was just so 偽の.'

Under Jose Mourinho, Alli's struggles for form multiplied. The former Chelsea boss infamously 述べるd Alli as 'lazy' in a 刺激（する）s' アマゾン 文書の, but the player 株d that a later 陳謝 for the 出来事/事件 was made by Mourinho, only to fail to make it into the final 削減（する）.?

Under Mauricio Pochett ino, Alli 繁栄するd at Tottenham, winning two PFA Young Player of the Year awards in 2016 and 2017

But after the Argentine's 出口 from the club, Alli had difficulty adjusting to the styles of other 経営者／支配人s, 含むing Jose Mourinho

'He called me lazy ? that was the day after 回復 day. A week later, he apologised to me for calling me lazy because he'd seen me 現実に train and play. But that wasn't in the 文書の, and no one spoke up about that because it was only me and him.

'In the team 会合, he called me lazy but then one-on-one, I think it was on the pitch he apologised for it. And I didn't think anything of it at the time because I know myself ? I'm not lazy.

'What you see いつかs isn't the way it really is. I think, 特に now with social マスコミ and all these things, we can really portray something that isn't real. After that, I think people definitely tried to use that, for some other 決定／判定勝ち（する）s.

'I think other coaches maybe, for other 推論する／理由s why I weren't playing, they stuck to that ? lazy one ? because it was 肉親，親類d of an 平易な, 平易な one to use. And the problem was probably more than that, I think.'

Alli 強調する／ストレスd that Everton 経営者／支配人 Dyche had been 極端に supportive of him in their conversations about his 未来 at Goodison Park.?

'Me and (Dyche) have had some good conversations, not so much about football at this point because 明白に I'm still 負傷させるd, but about where I'm at,' Alli said. 'And I'd like to say a big thanks to him 同様に ? I think for someone that didn't really know me, for this to be thrown on him and to be so understanding and not even just understanding, we had a good conversation and, like I said, he was supportive.

In 最近の months, Alli has drawn upon the support of his girlfriend, Cindy Kimberly, who 株d a comment in support of the 27-year-old on Instagram

A number of friends and former team-mates of Alli's have 株d messages i n support of the 攻撃者, 含むing James Maddison (left) and Kyle Walker-Peters (権利)

'権利 now, it's just about getting 支援する on the pitch and showing him what I can do, and the 会談 were more about what I've done ーに関して／ーの点でs of the rehab and how I'm feeling, which is a normal question for people to have, I think. So yeah, a lot of the 会談 so far have been about that, and then, yeah, I just need to get 支援する fit which isn't too long away.

'I'm feeling good in that sense, probably another few weeks (away from returning from 傷害) and then get 支援する playing and enjoying football which is what I want to do. So, I'm ready for a big season and I'm more 用意が出来ている to を取り引きする any challenge that comes with it.'

Above all, Alli 株d, he hopes that the conversation about his own 旅行 will in turn help others to ask for help, be 攻撃を受けやすい with those の近くに to them, and feel 奮起させるd to change their lives.?

'I want to 繰り返し言う the fact that people don’t need to 恐れる change. I think change is always hard, when something’s uncomfortable and difficult, you get a feeling, you get 脅すd, you get the 恐れる.?

'But when you have that feeling, that’s the exact time when you have to jump and go for it because at the other 味方する of 恐れる and change is usually only 肯定的なs things. And hopefully, me talking about my experienc es is helpful to them so.'?

Dele Alli was talking to The Overlap in 共同 with Sky Bet?