In a strained, wavering voice, Tyson described how he "didn't want to know" exactly what had happened to leave his daughter strangled by the cord of a treadmill.
Oprah then asked, "How has her death affected or changed you? I heard you just say she's a little angel. I actually do believe that when you've loved somebody and they've loved you, that you end up with an angel whose name you know."
Dodging Oprah's theory for a more complicated (and decidedly less woo-woo) explanation, Tyson responded: "I don't know Oprah, you know, I'd like to believe that. That sounds great. But my first instinct was a lot of rage...I'm just so happy that I had the tools in life not to go in that direction because I've been there, I know where it's going to lead me...My family, that's my biggest asset."
Sitting in the interviewee's chair with an enormous past weighing on him, Tyson seemed less like a champion than a man who who had lived a spectacular, if disturbing life. Which, strangely, made him as likable a public figure as he has been in years.
