With things like that, you can't be told to go there. I decided to go to a modern day rehab facility for addiction, mental health and trauma' said Alli. The 27-year-old Alli most recently played for Turkish Süper Lig side Beşiktaş before returning to parent club Everton in the English Premier League after his spell in Turkey was hampered by injuries.Īfter returning to the UK, Alli decided to enter rehab.

'After that, I just felt so betrayed and let down and hurt that I just couldn't keep the relationship with my mum,' said Alli. '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 easy to get rid of me again.'Īsked by Neville about his relationship with his birth mother, Alli answered that he doesn't speak to her after his parents went to the media with a story about his adopted family. 'If God created people, it was them,' Alli told Neville of his adopted family. (Getty)ĬNN was unable to reach Alli's mother for comment, but in a 2018 interview, she told the Daily Mail that it was 'painful that we've become estranged and the hard part is I don't really know why.'Īt the age of 12, Alli says he was adopted. Dele Alli during his time with Besiktas JK.

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