EXCLUSIVE: 'She's gonna be okay.' Simone Biles's birth mother says her daughter will land on her feet after the Olympic gymnast announced she was pulling out of the team final 'to focus on her mental health'

• Simone Biles's biological mother expressed she's confident her daughter will be fine after the 24-year-old announced she was withdrawing from the team final 
• 'She's going to be okay,' Shanon Biles, 49, said as she spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com on the doorstep of her red-brick row house in Columbus, Ohio  
• Simone was born in Columbus, the third of four children. But her mother's addiction led to all four being placed into foster care
• She was expected to lead the US to gold in the team final but pulled out of the competition Tuesday following a shock error on vault
• Her exit all but cleared the way for the Russian Olympic Committee to claim gold after leaving Team USA with just three first-time Olympians to compete 
• Speaking about her shock decision, Simone, 24, cited her mental health struggles, insisting that she needed to 'focus on her wellbeing' 
• 'And you know, there's more to life than just gymnastics,' she added 
• Find out the latest Tokyo Olympic news including schedule, medal table and results right here

Simone Biles's biological mother has just four words to tell the world about her emotionally troubled superstar daughter. 'She's gonna be okay.'

Shanon Biles had those encouraging words after the seven-time Olympic-medalist shockingly pulled out of the US team gymnast event in Tokyo.

But she declined to comment further as she spoke exclusively to DailyMail.com on the doorstep of her red-brick row house in Columbus, Ohio.

Shanon, 49, has pulled her life together after having to give up Simone and her three siblings to foster parents when they were small. At the time Shanon was suffering from chronic drug abuse.

Now sober and healthy, she is avidly following the Olympian, and like the rest of America was dismayed when Simone, 24, stumbled badly on Monday before quitting the team leaving teammates Jordan Chiles, Grace McCallum and Sunisa Lee to fight on for the silver medal.

They were beaten out by members of the Russian Olympic Committee team.

Simone told reporters she had to pull out 'to focus on my wellbeing.'

'I'm OK,' she said. 'Just dealing with some things internally which will get fixed out in the next couple of days.'

She hopes to be able to compete in individual competition later in the Games. 

She is next due in action on Thursday in the all-around final - an event she hasn't lost in any level of competition since 2013.

'You know, there's more to life than just gymnastics,' Simone said.

'It is very unfortunate that it has to happen at this stage because I definitely wanted this Olympics to go a little bit better but again, we'll take it one day at a time and we're going to see how the rest goes.'

Simone was born in Columbus, the third of four children. But her mother's addiction led to all four being placed into foster care. 

When Simone was three, she and her younger sister, Adria, were taken in by her maternal grandfather Ron Biles and his second wife Nellie Cayetano and she moved to Spring, a suburb of Houston, Texas.

When Simone was six, Ron and Nellie formally adopted her and Adria. Her older sister Ashley and brother Tevin were adopted by Ron's sister Harriett Thomas.

'It was hard to give up my kids but I had to do what I had to, I wasn't able to care for them,' Shanon Biles told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview during the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

'It took me six years before I saw my children again. I was respecting my dad to let the kids' transition, he felt that was the best thing for them.

'I was still using, and he didn't want me coming in and out of their lives when I wasn't right.

'I was hard-headed, I didn't care, screaming, 'I want to see my kids, why you doing this to me?'

'I didn't understand it at the time but years later, I understood why. I had to deal with me first.'

Simone's biological father, Kelvin Clemons, also struggled with his own addictions. Shanon said the pair met as teenagers. 

'When I talk to Simone, it's a brief conversation, like, "I miss you, I love you, I can't wait to see you, I'm proud of you, I'm watching. You go girl," she said during the 2016 interview.

'It's never anything personal. I want to tell her what really happened when I was younger but I keep on waiting for the right time.

'My dad and his wife, they don't let me talk about it. And I want to keep that respect. I don't want to overstep my boundaries with my dad because I appreciate everything he has done.'

Shanon said she had been sober since 2007 and when she spoke on Tuesday, she looked healthy and happy.

'I am doing fine. I'm working, I'm blessed, she told DailyMail.com in 2016. 'I've come a long way. I've struggled but I've made it through the storm.'

Simone's difficulties in Tokyo have been plain to see. She admitted the high expectations placed on her made her feel like she 'had the weight of the world on my shoulders.'

'Physically, I feel good, I'm in shape,' after pulling out of the team event. 'Emotionally, that kind of varies on the time and moment. 

'Coming to the Olympics and being head star isn't an easy feat, so we're just trying to take it one day at a time and we'll see. 

'I have to focus on my mental health,' Simone said. 'I just think mental health is more prevalent in sports right now.

'We have to protect our minds and our bodies and not just go out and do what the world wants us to do.'

Simone's struggles mirror those of Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka who pulled out of both the French Open and Wimbledon this year because she felt she did not want to face questions from reporters. 

The former Number One -ranked player said she was suffering from depression and anxiety.

Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron in her home country at the weekend but was surprisingly beaten in the third round of the tennis tournament by Czech player Marketa Vondrousova, who is currently ranked 40 places below Osaka.

'We're not just athletes, we're people at the end of the day,' Biles said about both her and Osaka's struggles. 'Sometimes you just have to step back.'

She said she was worried that her high-flying acrobatics could end badly because she wasn't feeling 100 percent. 

'I didn't want to go out and do something stupid and get hurt.

'I feel like a lot of athletes speaking up has really helped. It's so big, it's the Olympic Games, at the end of the day we don't want to be carried out of there on a stretcher.

'You have to be there 100 per cent or 120 per cent or you're going to hurt yourself.'

It has been a difficult few months for the Biles family. Simone's brother, Tevin Biles-Thomas, was acquitted of murder in June, after the prosecution's main witness failed to turn up in court.

Biles-Thomas, 26, a soldier based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, had been accused of killing three men, including his own cousin, at a New Year's Eve party in Cleveland in 2018.

The judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict, a decision that led Brandy Johnson, the mother of one of the victims, to rush at him in court screaming: 'You killed my baby. You know he killed my baby.' 

In an exclusive interview after the case, Johnson told DailyMail.com: 'I don't just think that Tevin Biles-Thomas killed my son. I know 100% for sure that he did, and so does the judge.'