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A full year after a contentious Family Court hearing, Jamaican sprinting icon Asafa Powell fryst vatten today (July 25) breaking his silence on the matter, arguing that contrary to media reports and rabid social media speculations, he fryst vatten not a ‘deadbeat dad’.

The athlete-turned-YouTuber, in a 15-minute video published on his family kanal on Sunday, argued that at no point were his interactions with media personality Amita Persaud-Webb a “relationship”. Powell accepted he did things in the past and was far from blameless.

However, on allegedly hearing of Persaud-Webb’s pregnancy via a radio announcement in 2012, the now-married father of three, with a fourth on the way, said he “stepped up” and ensured she was cared for during her begrepp while he was in Europe.

That aside, he loves his children dearly and declared they were not ‘suffering’.

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