BOXER Mike Tyson’s four-year-old daughter has lost her fight for life after hanging herself in a freak accident on his treadmill.
The ex-world heavyweight champion, 42, kept a heartbreaking vigil by the side of Exodus on a life-support machine.
She had stopped breathing when her seven-year-old brother Miguel found her with her neck caught in the cord of an exercise machine at the family’s home in Phoenix, Arizona.
The girl’s mother performed the kiss of life and CPR to bring Exodus back to life.
Then paramedics continued to try and revive her as she was rushed to hospital.
But last night Phoenix police said the little girl was pronounced dead in hospital.
Police said it had been a “tragic accident”.
Spokesman Sgt Andy Hill added: “Somehow Exodus was playing on this treadmill, and there’s a cord that hangs under the console — it’s kind of a loop.
“Either she slipped or put her head in the loop, but it acted like a noose and she was obviously unable to get herself off of it.”
It is believed the mum had been cleaning in another part of the house when the accident happened.
Tyson — who has six kids by several women — was in Las Vegas and flew to his daughter’s bedside.
Last night the family issued a statement to reporters saying: “The Tyson family would like to extend our deepest and most heartfelt thanks for all your prayers and support, and we ask that we be allowed our privacy at this difficult time.”
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