More than two months after his daughter’s death, Mike Tyson says he’s still “going through a process [and] trying to heal.”

“I am in denial, because I don’t know how to handle it,” Tyson tells Entertainment Tonight. “I don’t know what to do or say.”

The boxing champ’s 4-year-old daughter Exodus died May 26 after accidentally strangling herself on a cord from a treadmill at home in Arizona.

Tyson describes the tragedy as “a dark moment in my life,” adding that he beat “myself up over my daughter” and stayed in his home depressed.

“I am working with dealing with it,” he tells the TV show. “I have become a member of an exclusive club no one wants to join. I have been told the pain never stops but you get over it.”

One way Tyson has been coping – getting back to work, which includes an appearance on the new FOX series Brothers. Says Tyson, who also delivered a hilarious turn in this summer’s big-screen hit The Hangover, “[Acting] keeps me functioning as a healthy human being.”

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The 4-year-old daughter of boxing legend Mike Tyson died Tuesday, a day after she was injured in a treadmill accident at her home, police in Phoenix, Arizona, said.

Exodus Tyson was prounounced dead at 11:45 a.m. local time Tuesday, said Sgt. Andy Hill, a Phoenix police spokesman. He gave no other details.

The girl was found by her 7-year-old brother on a treadmill in the Phoenix home Monday “with her neck on … a cable” attached to the machine, police said in an earlier statement.

The mother “took her daughter off the cable” and called authorities, and Exodus was taken to a hospital, according to police.

Former world heavyweight champion Tyson traveled from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Phoenix where his daughter was on life support in critical condition on Monday, police said.

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Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter is on life support after being found by her 7-year-old brother hanging from a treadmill cord, according to police.

Exodus Tyson is in critical condition, according to FOX News , which first reported the story.

Exodus was playing near the exercise equipment while her mother was cleaning in a separate room at 10:30 this morning. The mom sent the brother to look for the 4 year old, Fox reports.

After finding her in distress, he alerted his mother, who found Exodus on a treadmill with what has been described as a cable around her neck, according to police, who call it a “tragic accident.”

She immediately took the cable off her daughter, called 911 and began performing CPR.

Exodus was taken to St. Joe’s Hospital.

Tyson was not at home at the time of the incident.

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Mike Tyson – who was accused of beating Robin Givens and was convicted of raping Desiree Washington – says he can relate to Chris Brown, the 19-year-old singer who allegedly beat Rihanna.

“It’s none of my business, but you know what I say about that? I understand the situation. I understand passion with young kids,” Tyson, 42, tells MTV News.

“My personal opinion about that is, he’s just a baby,” adds the former heavyweight champ, who is the subject of a new documentary, Tyson, out Friday. “He’s just a little baby that don’t know how to handle his emotions when it comes to a woman. And he probably hears this and thinks, ‘I know how to handle my emotions’; we all think we do.

“But the fact [is],” Tyson continues, “you look at this person and you might be crazy in love, but we don’t know how to handle those feelings.”

What could have led Brown to beat Rihanna, 21? Tyson blames a “pimp mentality” that is prevalent among young people. “Now you’re a fly guy and a cool guy [you think] … you have to be hard like that,” he says.

In the MTV interview, Tyson appears contrite about his history of violence towards women.

“You can’t abuse them,” he tells MTV. “It’s really sick what you [can] do. She has a space in your heart and you believe you care about her more than anybody in the world.

“Do I think it’s right to beat up a woman? No — hell no,” he adds. “Have I hit a woman before? Hell yeah. Was I wrong? Hell yeah. I’m a product of that environment. Do I regret ever doing that? Hell yeah. Would I do it again? Never.”

Brown — who has pleaded not guilty to two felonies, assault and making criminal threats — is due back in court April 29.

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There’s new legal trouble for Mike Tyson: The former heavyweight champ was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of cocaine in Arizona.

Police stopped Tyson, 40, after he left a Scottsdale nightclub at about 1:45 a.m. on Friday and his car nearly collided with a sheriff’s vehicle, Sgt. Larry Hall told the Associated Press. Tyson was alone.

“He showed signs of impairment and voluntarily submitted to field sobriety tests,” Hall said. During those tests, Tyson showed “more signs of impairment” and was arrested.

Officers then allegedly found cocaine on Tyson and in his car.

He was booked at a Maricopa County sheriff’s jail and is expected to appear before a judge for a bail hearing later on Friday, Hall said.

Tyson’s most famous brush with the law was a rape conviction that landed him in prison from 1992 to 1995 for a 1991 sexual assault on a woman in an Indianapolis hotel room. In 1997, he infamously bit Evander Holyfield’s ear during a boxing match.

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