Emmanuel Eboue has revealed his son was bullied at school when they discovered he was banned from football.
The ex- Arsenal star served a year-long FIFA suspension for failing to pay a reported €1million owed to his former agent Sebastien Boisseau.
Eboue is currently unable to play football because of ill-health.
However, he revealed his son, Mathis, who plays for Arsenal's academy, was ridiculed by schoolmates over his ban from the game.
Speaking in a wide-ranging exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror in which he revealed he is broke after a bitter divorce battle with his wife, Eboue said: “It was hard for my son.
"My son plays for Arsenal. But for him it was very, very difficult for him to go to school.
“At school you know how the children talk. They were laughing at him and saying, ‘Your Dad was banned by FIFA and will not play any more’. So it was very, very difficult.”
Eboue has not seen his three kids since June.
“I can’t see them and it is hurting me a lot," he added. “I was close to my children and ready to do everything for them.
“My two girls have a phone and used to call me. But now it has been two months with no contact.
“I miss children. I miss my children a lot and I want to see them because it is not fair. It pains me a lot.
Eboue spends his days hiding from bailiffs, sometimes sleeps on the floor of a friend’s home, travels by bus and even cleans his clothes by hand because he has no washing machine.
His bitter divorce battle with wife Aurelie left him with nothing.
Today, the 34-year-old tells how his staggering riches-to-rags plight has pushed him to the brink of suicide.
“I want God to help me,” he says. “Only he can help take these thoughts from my mind.”
It is now three weeks since a deadline passed for Eboue to surrender ownership of the North London home he used to share with Aurelie.
A judge will sign the transfer if Eboue does not do so.
The player and his wife lived there in happier times before Eboue bought a mansion – which Aurelie has now put on the market.
He understands she will rent out the Enfield property.
So Eboue, his belongings in bags, now awaits the knock that will see him ordered to leave at any time.
The worried star said: “I can’t afford the money to continue to have any lawyer or barrister.
"I am in the house but I am scared. Because I don’t know what time the police will come.
“Sometimes I shut off the lights because I don’t want people to know that I am inside. I put everything behind the door.
"My own house. I suffered to buy my house but I am now scared.
“I am not going to sell my clothes or sell what I have. I will fight until the end because it is not fair.”