‘My Dad Flipped a Switch on Me’: Simone Biles’ Birth Mom Exposed Father for Forbidding Her From Contacting Gymnast for Six Years Following Adoption In Resurfaced Interview 

Shannon Biles, the biological mother of Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, made headlines recently for asking Simone to forgive her past misdeeds and explaining why she gave up her children for adoption. Many took issue with Shannon claiming in a new interview that although she had reached out to her daughter she was waiting on her reply. But the attention on Simone’s mom amid her successful run at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris led to a 2016 interview with the former drug addict resurfacing. “When we signed the [adoption] papers, it was like my dad flipped a switch on me – no communication, don’t call, and don’t visit. That’s how it was at the beginning,” Shannon Biles told Daily Mail eight years ago. Simone Biles’ birth mom, Shannon Biles, seeks forgiveness after the Olympian’s success at the Paris Olympics. (Photos: Carmen Mandato/Getty Images; DailyMail.com) After spending three years in foster care, then-6-year-old Simone Biles& and her younger sister, Adria,& were adopted by their maternal grandfather, Ron Biles, and his second wife, Nellie Biles. Ron Biles’ sister, Harriet, adopted Simone’s two oldest siblings, the now-29-year-old Tevin and now-34-year-old Ashley Biles-Thomas. Shannon Biles had to give up her four children due...