Jermaine Pennant has opened up on his own childhood trauma following Dele Alli's own story.
Alli revealed his struggles with addiction and abuse as a child in a tell-all interview with Gary Neville on The Overlap, speaking candidly throughout an understandably emotional conversation with his former England coach.
As well as to a spell in a US rehabilitation facility this summer after growing addicted to sleeping pills, the Everton star lifted the lid on a childhood that saw him become involved with drugs at the age of eight that he was molested by a friend of his mother's.