Luke confessed as never before: Mother mixed milk with water, often found it weeping

Romelu Luke has grown up as never before. She has explained the difficult way she grew up.

How did Luke become one of the modern - day iconic football players?

He will appear with Belgium's national. Once upon a time it was just a dream for him, especially when his mother, according to Luke's words, remembered what he would put on the table to eat, writes the Daily mail Periscope.

I remember that time. There was a time when my mother mixed milk with water, I thought it was over, maybe you understand. This was our life”, Luke wrote at the Players Tribune.

I never said a word to him. I didn't want her to get upset. I just wanted to eat my meal. But I swore to God, I made a promise to myself. It was like someone put his fingers in my head and woke me up. I knew exactly what I had to do and what I would start to do in the life I had before”, Luke says in his touching confession.

I couldn't see my mom living like that. No, no, no, I couldn't see”, he says.

The 25 - year - old had decided to change his family's destiny forever.

He could do that through football. It was his best chance.

Luke has said he knew that one day he could become a professional footballer, but he had not even dreamed that he would sign for Manchester United anything less than 75 million pounds.

“Football people want to talk about the difficulties they experience. Well, my friend, I'll tell you what I went through. Because I remember like today, when we sat in the dark with our mother and brother, we prayed and thought, we believed, we knew that one day it would happen. I kept my promise. But one day, I came home from school and found my mother crying. So I told her, Mom, this situation is gonna change. I'll play for Anderlecht and it'll happen soon. We'll be fine. We won't have to worry about it by the time he confessed to Luke. /Periscopi/