Mike Tyson lived off food stamps "many times" and knows that roughly 42 million Americans will miss out on benefits when the clock strikes midnight.

SNAP will not be funded on Nov. 1 with the government shutdown now a month old.

"People are going to starve. That’s the reality. … Some people are going to suffer," Tyson said in his appearance on Fox Business Friday.

Tyson knows what those who use SNAP to eat are going through.

"I come from this background. I come from where all the food you ate was what you stole, and it was just a bad situation. I've never seen anybody as poor as my family. We were cut off of welfare. Poverty's like your first love. Once you're engaged, you never forget it," he said.

"I'm from that era where poverty was just mandatory."

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