He is a recovering drug addict, he walks around different cities, capturing on camera the most deprived and run down parts of each city...he also talks to many homeless and drug users, plus prostitution....bringing awareness of what the News on TV seldom show.
Moore in 2021
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Early life
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Moore grew up in poverty on a
council estate in
Liverpool.
[3] He explains in his
memoir A Prayer Before Dawn (2011) that he often felt isolated,
[4] being told he was worthless by his "
alcoholic father".
[5] He began to fall into a life of crime by age 16, stealing cars,
[6]committing burglaries and getting involved in drugs.
[7]
Life in Thailand
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After getting clean with the help of a rehab programme, Moore took a trip to
Thailand as a means to turn his life around, hoping to give up drugs, alcohol and burglary, and start fresh as a
boxer and
stunt man. He arrived in Thailand in 2005 and taught English there. While he was clean, he even worked as a
stunt double for
Sylvester Stallone on
Rambo IV. It was when he got back into fighting there that he became involved with drugs and crime. He had started to train in
Muay Thai boxing, the country's national sport. "I got involved with underground fighting and found bad company again." He became addicted to
crystal meth and
ya ba (a highly addictive methamphetamine).
[8]
After being convicted of a drug-related offense, he was imprisoned in Chiang Mai Central Prison and later transferred to the notorious
Klong Prem Central Prison in
Bangkok. He received a 3-year sentence.
On his first night in prison he was placed in a cell with a dead body.
[9] He became involved with the prison's Muay Thai training team as a way to escape the
gang violence of the prison. Moore is quoted as saying "It became like family orientated, and he invited me into their gym, took care of me, sat with me, broke bread with me".
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