Manchester Boxing star Tyson Fury says his obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is so severe it leads him to adjusting other people's ties.
The Wythenshawe-born WBC heavyweight champion says the condition also sees him having to intervene if he sees something that is 'non-symmetrical.'
And despite standing at 6ft 9in tall and being undefeated in the ring, the star dubbed the Gypsy King says he is waiting for the day he gets punched because of it.
He has compared himself to obsessively tidy loner Melvin Udall, played by Jack Nicholson in the 1997 comedy As Good As It Gets as he admitted OCD is the one battle he has lost, reports the Daily Star.
Fury, 32, who has spent years battling anxiety and depression, said: “If you’ve seen that Jack Nicholson film As Good As It Gets – where the character he plays can’t bear to stand on the cracks of the pavement (or sidewalk for our American friends) – you’ll have been introduced to the weird world of OCD.
“There are four types of OCD. In my case I have a thing about tidiness and wanting everything to be in order and in its right place.
"In fact, if something is amiss and non-symmetrical – be it a stranger’s tie or a picture frame off-kilter – I have to politely intervene and straighten things up, otherwise it bothers me no end.
“The advantage of being almost 7ft tall is that no-one has hit me for it… yet.”
Fury added that thanks to exercise, he has overcome the depression demons which almost drove him to suicide.
He had ballooned to 28st before he got back in shape and reclaimed the world heavyweight title.
But he said doing lockdown workouts at his home in Morecambe, Lancs was risky because he almost knocked himself out when jumping up and down.
He said: “How many times I’ve banged my skull on that bloody chandelier in our front room while doing burpees doesn’t bear thinking about.”
It comes after Tyson has admitted that during his darkest days he had “given up hope to breathe”, as he struggled with suicidal thoughts.
The reigning heavyweight champion, won his first title in 2015, upsetting Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf.
But after climbing the boxing mountain, the ‘Gypsy King’ suffered a mental breakdown which culminated in him attempting suicide.
“It got pretty bad,” he told ITV’s This Morning. “I didn’t want to live anymore, that was the feeling for quite a number of years.
“I attempted suicide. I attempted to drink myself to death. Every day was a terrible day for me and I just didn’t want to live.
“I couldn’t put my finger on what it was, because if you can put your finger on what it was, you’d just stop doing that thing and then you think you’re better.
“With mental health, it’s not a disability you can actually see. It was pretty dark days, when you give up hope to breathe and don’t want to live anymore, that’s as dark as it can possibly be, without ending it.”
