That was a heavy backstory, so if i get this right, he constantly got in fights with punks since an early age, his mother constantly apologizing and reasuring her son that it was not his fault.
Until one day some punks went after his mom, and beat her to death, on her final words she told her son that, as always it was not his fault, but she wishes she had never had him.
This devastated the guy, whose boss control policy became "only the last words matter" which i guess backfired horrible at the end.
Mmmh is it really 8? or is this another bluff?