They said nine years ago, ""It was always his way or the highway. I managed the shop, but he didn’t want to pay me. He refused to pay me and my brother a wage. I was forced to claim benefits to make ends meet. Without my benefits I would have been homeless a very long time ago."
"He and [former best friend Tony Bailey] came up with the idea of making a sauce but my dad took the recipe home to see what he could do with it. Me and my sister Sharlene made the sauce in his kitchen, so we knew the secret. He used to send us to Lidl to pick up the ingredients." "I just want him to remember who he was before he became Mr Reggae Reggae Sauce man because he was a nice man."
Tony was the man who took Levi to court but lost.
Levi said in the house
"I've had so many bad times with my children.
"I'm a father of eight and at one time two of my daughters came out against me in the newspapers saying what a horrible father I was. It was the worst moment in my whole entire life because I love them so much.
"I really do. I think in the back of my mind I'm waiting for my two girls to come and knock on my door."
He previously said:
"I think I was probably a rubbish dad, you know, before. I wasn't that good because I went away all the time. I never had a proper job to be able to look after them. So I wasn't a good dad to, you know, to seven of the kids."
"But I think since [the youngest's] been born and having a relationship with my new love and we formed that family unit, I think I'm the best bloody dad that there had ever been. It is about feedback. I learned from feedback how to be a better dad."
"I’m hoping they are inspired by what their dad has done. I’ve got to be a shining example for them. When it comes to being a father the second time around, I now have hindsight. A great thing. Now, I am the best Levi Roots I can be. I was still learning while having my other kids and I wasn’t the best of me."