A former American professional boxing champion, Mike Tyson has revealed that he slept with a prison counselor in order to reduce his prison sentence.

The 55- year-old Tyson revealed this while speaking about his life in prison in an interview with VLAD TV.

He said that he was supposed to spend four years and needed to pass the GED (General Educational Development) in order to reduce the term, something which was helped by dating a counselor.

In the prime of his career, Tyson was arrested for raping an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant.

Despite him pleading innocent, he was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison. He spent fewer than three years at the Indiana Youth Centre, however, before being released in 1995.

“I got in trouble like the first six months and stuff, cursing, getting written up. And then by that time, I got the hang of the place. ‘Hey, I know how to do this.’ Next thing you know, I’m dating one of the counsel workers now, she’s letting me have s*x with her now.

“So I’m going good. But the first six months I was getting write-ups, I have to pay that year back. … I’m like a star pupil prisoner. Trusty, everything. Then, ‘Hey Mike, remember the first six months you were a prick?’ Boom. They gave me another year.

“So by passing the GED they took that year away. So I flunked the f****** GED … and got mad, and so I had to start dating this counselor and stuff, giving her money and doing really some nasty stuff to her, and she let me pass this test.”

“I came in with 50-something [years] … They cut it all the way down to three years,” Tyson concluded. “I was doing 69 at first—they gave me 63, no. Then they took 10 off, then it was 53. And then they gave me 10, I had to do three, I got seven on parole, I guess, yeah.”