Simone Biles is the greatest American Olympic gymnast ever,
she put an exclamation point on that thought with four medals at the Paris Games this fortnight.
It is not often that you hear the backstory on Biles.
Shanon Biles, was unable to raise the gymnast and her other three siblings as they entered the foster care system
Ronald, Biles' maternal grandfather, and his second wife, Nellie Cayetano Biles, began to care for the children and adopted them at a later point in time.
Ronald Biles told the Houston Chronicle his daughter had problems with substance abuse and drug addiction.
Nellie Biles also spoke at the time, saying that she and her husband have no problem with Simone and her siblings developing a "defined relationship" with her birth mother.
Shanon Biles told The Daily Mail Tuesday about her fight and the effects of addiction on her relationship with her children.
hard to give up the children, but her father did not want her to keep going in and out of their lives while she was still on drugs.
Shanon Biles said that she is now "clean and sober" and working at a grocery store in Ohio, before saying that she wants Simone to reach out.