Former England striker Jermain Defoe has opened up about the personal tragedies that drove his prolific football career in a new film.
Defoe scored over 300 goals in a career that encompassed spells with West Ham, Tottenham, Portsmouth, Sunderland, Bournemouth and Rangers, as well as netting 20 times for England.
The upcoming documentary, called 'Defoe: For the love of the game', will be screened in UK cinemas for one night only on February 29.
Defoe, 41, who is now an academy coach at Tottenham, holds nothing back in the film as he talks about 'love rat' tabloid headlines, the murder of his half-brother Jade in 2009, the passing of his father on the eve of Euro 2012, and the sudden death of his 20-year-old cousin a few months later.