Kellie: Boxing clever helped save my life
Irish Sunday Mirror|October 30, 2022
OLYMPIC gold medallist Kellie Karrington has admitted she was a troubled teenager on the "wrong" path and boxing helped "save her life".
MEGAN MARTIN
Kellie: Boxing clever helped save my life

The champ opened up about growing up in Dublin's north inner city as she promoted her autobiography Kellie on Friday's Late Late Show.

She revealed: "I was 13 or 14 and I was heading down the wrong road. I was drinking, I was taking pills, I was getting into trouble at school.

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