Dana White has a lot of haters, but it was surprising to find out that his mother was one of them.
June White shocked the MMA world back in 2011 when she released an unauthorized biography on her son titled ‘Dana White: King of MMA.’ The 152 page book was full of all sorts of accusations: that White and his wife got into physical conflicts regularly, that he ‘puts Tiger Woods to shame’ regarding infidelity, and that he’d slept with his sister-in-law.
All unproven claims, and all a part of what White
now says was part of a scheme to get money out of him to buy a bar. In a new interview with The Diary of a CEO, White addressed his mother’s book in-depth for the first time.
“I was on a trip one time, I didn’t have emails or any of that s–t on the road,” White said. “We were in London for like two weeks and when I got back I checked my emails and I had like a bunch of emails from her threatening me: ‘You have two options: you can give me this all upfront, or you can pay me in payments over the next f–king whatever. I’m looking to buy a bar or whatever it was.'”
“And then she wasn’t getting responses because I was in London, and then the emails started getting nastier and nastier and nastier,” White continued. “And I f–king just blew up. That was the beginning of the end with me and her.”
“Listen, sometimes family is the worst. We all fail at certain things in life. In my opinion, if you fail as a parent, it’s the ultimate failure. My mom passed away without me or my sister talking to her.”
Back in 2023, White admitted he felt little to no emotion over the passing of his parents, saying “I’m good with it.” But he’s not out to score points on either during his many media interviews.
“I don’t go on shows to speak negatively about my mother,” White said. “I was telling you earlier, I wouldn’t change anything. People say, ‘Do you think you are who you are today because of your parents?’ Absolutely, one hundred percent. Good, bad, whatever, however you want to look at it.”
The book, though, was too much.
“That’s one of the grossest, most disgusting things that you couldn’t even imagine possible until it happens to you,” White said. “The thing that’s bad about that, what she did is, a lot of other people she hurt in that book. She didn’t hurt me, but other people. A lot of things that aren’t true, and a lot of people that didn’t do anything to her [are] in that book. Again, I’ve never read it, but I’ve had lawyers tell me about it, s–t like that.”
“It just it just it’s one of those things that when you become successful, this type of s–t happens to you.”
