OLYMPIC hero Simone Biles has revealed her parents gave her a special gift to celebrate her Paris glory. The revelation comes as the biological mother of Biles made a public plea for her forgiveness after abandoning her when she was a young child. Biles wrote on Threads that her birth grandparents Ronald and Nellie - who adopted her at the age of six - had bought her a special gift after another Olympics to remember in France.
"My parents bought me my hermes bag," she wrote alongside a love-heart emoji. "Don’t be mad at me, be mad at your parents." Ronald and Nellie stepped up to care for the gymnast and her younger sister Adria after their mother Shanon gave them up due to drug and alcohol addiction.
READ MORE on Paris Olympics Shanon has given an interview to the Daily Mail in recent days, saying she wishes Simone would reach out to her. "It was hard to give up my kids, but I had to do what I had to do," Shanon said. "I wasn't able to care for them.
I was still using and (my father) didn't want me coming in and out of their lives when I wasn't right. "I would like to make amends with Simone personally – I'm just waiting for her and Adria. I speak to Adria more than I speak to Simone.
Most read in Olympics "I would just ask her to forgive me. Can we move forward? Don't judge me on my past. Let's move forward.
"I'm waiting for the opportunity but I'm waiting on her to be able to come to me. Let's sit down. I just have to be patient.
" Simone was the toast of US sports fans.