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Lewis Hamilton has opened up about facing racist bullying at school as a child in Stevenage.
The seven-times Formula One world champion, 38, detailed the horrific abuse where fellow pupils would throw bananas at him and call him the 'N-word'.
Speaking to the On Purpose podcast, he said: 'School was the most traumatising and most difficult part of my life.
Awful: Lewis Hamilton has opened up about facing racist bullying at school as a child in Stevenage
'I was already being bullied at the age of six. At that particular school I was one of three kids of colour and just bigger, stronger, bullying kids were throwing me around a lot of the time.'
Lewis continued: 'And the constant jabs, the things that are either thrown at you, like bananas, or people that would use the N-word just so relaxed.
'People calling you half-caste and not knowing where you fit in. That was difficult.'
'In my [secondary] school there were six or seven black kids out of 1,200 kids and three of us were put outside the headmasters’ office all the time. The headmaster just had it out for us – and particularly me.'
Abhorrent: The seven-times Formula One world champion, 38, detailed the horrific abuse where fellow pupils would throw bananas at him and call him the 'N-word'
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