After his father left his family when he was five years old, Mr. T and his eleven siblings were raised alone by their loving mother. As a form of repayment and respect, Mr. T brought his mother as his date for the premiere of Rocky III, his first major role. 
In an especially heated moment where Clubber Lang calls Adrian “Woman” and propositions her for sex, Mrs. Tureaud turned and let her son know that she didn’t raise him to talk to women like that. T’s mom left the theatre angry, a moment was guaranteed to have affected Mr. T, as he noted on many times how much his mother meant to him.
