Former Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah claims he was trafficked to UK and forced to work as a child servant

Olympic champion Mo Farah has disclosed that his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin. He claims that at the age of nine, he was forcibly brought to Britain from Djibouti and forced to work as a child servant.

According to the distance runner, who will be featured in the BBC television documentary "The Real Mo Farah," when he was eight or nine years old, a woman flew him from the country of east Africa to the UK, gave him the name Mohammed Farah, and forced him to look after another family‍‍`s children.

Farah, who won the 5,000-10,000 double at the Olympics in both London 2012 and Rio 2016, originally claimed he and his parents fled Somalia for the UK.

But in shocking admissions, the 39-year-old now claims that his parents have never visited the UK since his mother and two brothers reside in the unrecognized breakaway state of Somaliland and his father was killed during civil upheaval in Somalia when Farah was four years old.

Farah declares, "The reality is, I‍‍`m not who you believe I am. The majority of people call me Mo Farah, but that is not my genuine name or identity.

The woman who flew with him to the UK informed him that he was being brought to live with family and instructed him to provide his name as Mohamed because her forged travel paperwork showed his picture next to the name "Mohamed Farah."

Farah shared that he was forced to do housework and childcare "if I wanted food in my mouth", and was told: "If you ever want to see your family again, don‍‍`t say anything."

"Often I would just lock myself in the bathroom and cry," he says.

Farah‍‍`s physical education teacher, Alan Watkinson, noticed how the youngster‍‍`s mood changed when he was on the running track.

"The only language he seemed to understand was the language of PE and sport," says Watkinson.

it was athletics that has helped him to escape Farah says.