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How MMA fighter Tom DeBlass survived childhood abuse, family addiction

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MMA fighter Tom DeBlass was in high school, he tried to call his father before one of his track meets. He never picked up, and DeBlass soon learned the bad news.“My mother said, ‘You can’t call him.

He’s in the hospital. He’s alive but he overdosed,'” DeBlass, 39, told The Post. This wasn’t unfamiliar territory for the Bayville, NJ native.

As a toddler, he saw his drug- and alcohol-addicted father on the kitchen floor so inebriated that they called an ambulance. “I was distraught,” he recalled.

In spite of his father’s condition, the then-17-year-old track star broke the school record in the long jump that day.“I think I was angry.

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