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Mark Kriegel’s new book “Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson” details how one woman was tougher than Iron Mike. At the height of his career, Tyson hit on Rosie Perez, allegedly telling
her, “Damn, Wosie. You got a biscuit booty. Love to pour gravy all over that.” Her response? “Mike, shut up.” That’s when “he kind of slumped over” and apologized, she said. They became
close friends instead. EXPLORE MORE The “Do the Right Thing” star’s upbringing in Brooklyn was as rough as the boxer’s. “When you grow up with childhood trauma, you don’t get to be a child,”
she told the author. “I saw that in Mike. I saw the abused kid, really just a good kid who got damaged. I saw the dented can. You know how people say, ‘Game recognizes game’? Well, damage
recognizes damage.” She added that when she savagely shot Tyson down and he apologized, “My heart just cracked,” she says in the book, out today from Penguin. “I was like, ‘Oh, honey.’ And I
remember turning to smile at him and I just kind of mushed him… and he mushed me back. But I almost fell ’cause he’s so damn strong.” Tyson never hit on her again, but, “That’s when I fell
in love with him,” she says. Perez and Kriegel will appear at St. Joseph’s in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, on June 4 at 7:30 p.m.