Tommy Fury Admits His Breakup with Love Island Co-Star Molly-Mae Hague Has Been ‘Challenging’: ‘There Are Many Critics Out There.’

Tommy Fury is shedding new light on how he’s been coping following his split from Molly-Mae Hague.

The Love Island fan-favorite couple announced their breakup after five years together on Aug. 14, and on Oct. 10, the 25-year-old boxer admitted that things have been “tough” over the last two months in his first TV interview since the split.

“Everyone will point the finger when there’s a bandwagon to jump on, but at the end of the day, out of respect to Molly and out of respect to myself, and you know, our relationship and to us, I’m gonna let us deal with that in private as much as we can,” Fury said on ITV’s This Morning of the speculation that’s occurred surrounding the reason behind his split from Hague, 25.

“There’s been a lot of critics out there, and there’ll be critics out there til the day I die.”

Fury was steadfast in his commitment to keeping the details of the breakup private, as he said, “I think we owe the respect to ourselves to do that.”

When asked specifically about the accusations that have been made claiming infidelity on his part, Fury again emphasized that he’d like to keep things private. “I’m gonna leave all that stuff for me and Molly to work through… A lot of stuff has been put out there, the whole world’s seen what we’ve been going through for the past month, two months, however long it’s been,” he said.

He was on the U.K. morning show to promote his new memoir, Lightning Can Strike Twice: My Life as Fury, and shared that he “added a last chapter” to the memoir following the breakup. “What I did is I talked about all my feelings leading up [to the split and how I’ve felt during this time.”

“In there, I’ve talked about my feelings in the past two months, and it has been tough,” he said of the chapter he added in an effort to keep “everybody up to date.”At the end of the day, Fury reiterated, “Me and Molly and Bambi are a family,” as he said that his and Hague’s main priority is their one-year-old daughter, who they welcomed in January 2023.

Hague announced the breakup in a statement posted on her Instagram Stories, as she wrote, “Never in a million years did I think I’d ever have to write this. After five years of being together I never imagined our story would end, especially not this way. I am extremely upset to announce that mine and Tommy’s relationship has come to an end.”

Fury shared a similar statement, as he wrote, that he was “heartbroken to share that Molly & I have decided to end our relationship. The past 5 years have led us to having our beautiful baby girl Bambi & I will be forever thankful to Molly for making me a dad. Bambi is our priority.”

Following the shocking news, accusations circulated in U.K. tabloids including The Sun and The Daily Mail that Fury had cheated on his fiancée, who he’d proposed to in July 2023.

A rep for the boxer told PEOPLE at the time that he was “horrified by the false allegations of cheating” and was “consulting his lawyers” regarding the “false” claims.