Tearful Boris Becker ‘hit the bottom’ when he was jailed for 30 months in new documentary

Boris Becker has opened up about his time in prison, his affair with a Russian model that ruined his marriage and his skyrocketing rise to global tennis star as a teenager for a new documentary.

Becker, 55, was released from jail in England last December after serving eight months of a 30-month prison sentence for tax evasion. The six-time Grand Slam winner was convicted last April of hiding £2.5m worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts.

Upon his release, he was deported from the UK and returned to Germany to rebuild his life. And the next step in his rehabilitation comes in a revealing documentary with Apple called ‘Boom! Boom! The world against Boris Becker’.

The trailer dropped on Thursday and features tennis legends like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Novak Djokovic, who has worked with Becker as a coach, reflecting on his legacy.

But it’s Becker, in his own words, who provides by far the most insight, especially as he reflects on the most controversial moments of his life.

Becker was photographed attending court in London, with his partner Lilian de Carvalho, shortly before he was sentenced to 30 months in prison last April; he served eight before being released.

In his time in prison, Becker becomes tearful and chokes as he admits, ‘I’ve hit rock bottom. But that’s not the end yet, there’s going to be another chapter.’

He also opens up about discovering his beloved son after an affair with Russian model Angela Ermakova in 1999.

The affair cost him his marriage to his then wife, Barbara.

Becker has previously said she had put her one-night stand with Ermakova out of her mind, until she later contacted him to say she was eight months pregnant.

Picking up the story in the documentary, he explains: “She came in, she was wearing a big coat. She took off her coat and was heavily pregnant. You just can’t believe it. The wake-up call came too late.

Becker previously spoke about his one-night stand with Ermakova in his 2003 autobiography.

The affair occurred while his wife Barbara had gone to the hospital because she was uncomfortable during her own pregnancy with her and Becker’s son, Elias. The encounter occurred in a broom closet at London’s Nobu restaurant.

“She looked right at me, the hunter look that says, ‘I love you,'” Becker recalled. There she was again, walking past the bar twice. And again this look. A while later she left her table to go to the bathroom. I followed behind.

Becker also opens up about the matter that cost him his marriage to his former wife Barbara (left)

In 1999, Becker had a one-night stand with Angela Ermakova (right) at a London restaurant; he later gave birth to her daughter Anna (left).

Becker initially denied that Anna was his, but later accepted that he was her father.

‘Five minutes of talk and then immediately to the nearest possible place and to work.

‘After she left, I had another beer, paid and went back to my hotel. Since there was no news from the hospital, I went to bed around 2 am. In the morning I went to see Barbara: the pains were a false alarm. We packed up our things and left England.

As for the fallout from last night, I didn’t think twice.

When Ermakova gave birth to a girl named Anna, Becker initially denied being the father before finally accepting responsibility in 2001, when she was 10 months old.

Barbara left Becker soon after, but appears in the documentary and explains what life was like for her when she and Becker were together.

“Choosing a black woman as his wife was a big deal,” she says. “For the German press, it was black and white.”

Becker rose to fame at the age of 17, bursting onto the tennis scene by winning Wimbledon.

Becker at a February screening in Munich for his new documentary with his partner Lillian

Becker rose to fame when we won Wimbledon at the age of just 17. Reflecting on his skyrocketing rise, he says in the sneak peek: “Nobody told me to win Wimbledon at 17, I just did it.” My game was power.

McEnroe then says that Becker “was like Michael Jordan in Germany.”

Becker had a preview screening of his new documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, which he attended along with his current partner, Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro. She was by her side during her time in jail.

Apple filmmakers had access to Becker for more than three years, until he went to prison. The documentary opens in its entirety on April 7.