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00:30...which has shaped his iconic in-ring persona.
00:33How could anything that looks so hot be so cold?
00:36Well, it's easy. You see, time has done that to me.
00:38Unknown to fans for years, wrestlers Sam Houston and Rockin' Robin are Jake the Snake's real-life brother and sister.
00:46Each followed in the footsteps of their father, wrestling giant Grizzly Smith.
00:52The control that Grizz had over his kids.
00:54He could pit them all against each other because he was a master of everything.
00:59He was a puppeteer.
01:01Scarred by traumatic childhoods, the Smith children followed self-destructive paths
01:06and each battled addictions that nearly destroyed their lives.
01:10You know how hard it is to put a smile on your face when you know what a piece of shit you really are?
01:15I'd been in prison two days and I tried to hang myself.
01:18It's the very, very young girls that seems to be the trigger and I was scared of it, just totally scared of it.
01:25This is JoLynn here.
01:27Without a body, they can't file murder.
01:30Decades later, the Smith family finally faced their haunted past in order to survive beyond the ring.
01:37Lies have consequences.
01:38If you want to feel pain, then you have to go from the top and get knocked to the bottom.
01:44That's when you feel real pain.
01:45None of us wants to talk about what happened to me.
02:03There's just too damn much that gets drugged out.
02:07There's just no relationship.
02:11There was no pat each other on the back shit.
02:13There was no I'm happy for you.
02:16You would have never thought we were brothers and sisters, that's for sure.
02:21Why were you guys not close?
02:22Because we were always that way.
02:25We had just been kind of raised at a distance.
02:29Since the formulation of professional wrestling as an organized sport,
02:33it's been a family business to a lot of the participants.
02:35There's been a lot of well-known wrestling families like the Hart family from Calgary,
02:40the Von Eriks from Texas.
02:42You could trust family members with the business secrets and the secrets in the ring
02:45because they were your blood.
02:47And also, they had a vested interest in the success of the industry
02:51because it was their livelihood as well.
02:53I'm Jim Cornette.
02:54For over 40 years, I've been a part of professional wrestling as an announcer, manager, promoter,
02:58but also I've been a student of professional wrestling history for over 50 years.
03:02So can you give us an introduction to the Smith family?
03:07Even though the Smith family was all related, the people inside the industry knew that.
03:12But to the fans, Jake Roberts, Sam Houston, Rockin' Robin, Risley Smith, were all different people.
03:19There was no knowledge publicly that they were related.
03:22You know, in all honesty, Sam Houston was the best in-ring performer of the entire family.
03:27My name is Michael Smith, a.k.a. Sam Houston.
03:30How I fit into the Smith family, I'm one of them.
03:33Depending on who you look at, I mean, I'm somebody's father, I'm somebody's son, I'm somebody's brother.
03:39Through our family, first Jake's the oldest, then Richard, then myself, and then Robin.
03:44Robin's one of the best women's world champions, you know, ever come down the line.
03:49And she's my sister.
03:51It's an honor for me to say that.
03:52Tell us the name that you wrestled under.
03:58Many years ago, Rockin' Robin.
04:00Rockin' Robin!
04:04Do you know how that name came about?
04:06Actually, it was just kind of a lazy thing.
04:08One of my first matches, they said, what do you want to be announced as?
04:11And I just said, okay, Rockin' Robin.
04:14I think I would have liked to have tried out Rotten Robin.
04:17I think that would have been fun.
04:18And I'm Robin Smith, and for the Smith family, I am the sister of Jake the Snake Roberts, Sam Houston.
04:26And then I have another brother that a lot of people don't know about, Richard.
04:32My name's Richard Neighbors, and Erillian Smith is my father.
04:37And Jake Roberts is my brother.
04:39Sam Houston is my brother.
04:41Robin Smith is my sister.
04:42So can you tell us who Erillian Smith Jr. is?
04:46That's Jake.
04:48This is Jake and myself.
04:50Jake the Snake Roberts is his wrestling name.
04:53When he was growing up in high school, my grandmother and stuff called him Buster.
04:57That was his nickname.
04:59I kind of slept with him for years, but Jake's what he wrestles by, what he goes by.
05:03So why wasn't getting involved in wrestling anything that was interesting to you?
05:09I didn't want to travel like that.
05:11It's not a lifestyle.
05:13But Jake likes the tension.
05:16He likes all the stardom being on him.
05:18Please welcome Jake the Snake Roberts.
05:20When he walks in a room, I mean, it's like, you know, he wants it all to be there.
05:24And that's from being in the ring for many years.
05:26That's being in that business.
05:28It's just a rat race.
05:31It wasn't me.
05:33Jake Roberts, as a wrestler, had strengths and had weaknesses.
05:38Jake Roberts was never a high-level amateur athlete.
05:41He didn't have a ridiculous physique.
05:43But what Jake knew and understood was the mental aspect of pro wrestling, the psychology of it.
05:49By growing up with a father in wrestling and by learning how to think of it, and he had the verbal ability.
05:56Don't come calling me a sicko, because, brother, if you look at yourself in the mirror, I think you'll find out one thing.
06:02You're no different than me if you tell yourself the truth.
06:05Jake the Snake Roberts, once he fully developed that persona, was able to make you believe that he really was a snake in the grass.
06:19And there was probably some truth to it.
06:20He was kind of a dad's shadow, in a way.
06:25I think he spent as much time as he could with dad, and, I mean, I guess learning the ropes, you know.
06:31That's, uh, dad and Jake.
06:35Jake the Snake Roberts here.
06:38Real name is Aurelian Smith Jr.
06:43Now you know why I'm in with Jake the Snake.
06:46So, your career in wrestling, what was your dad's reaction to your interest in wanting to do that?
06:51He didn't want me in wrestling, period.
06:53In fact, he got me fired a couple places, asked the promoters to fire me, to get me out.
07:00I got humiliated, I got stretched, I got tore up, basically crawled back to the locker room.
07:06And my father looked at me and said, I'm ashamed of you, you're gutless, and you'll never amount to anything.
07:13Exactly what I wanted to hear.
07:15That was my whole drive.
07:16I got into wrestling because I hated my father.
07:21And I was going to break it off in his ass.
07:24I wanted to hear my father say, I'm proud of you, son.
07:28I'm really proud of you.
07:30You know, he never told me that.
07:33He'd tell other wrestlers he was proud of me.
07:36But he wouldn't tell me.
07:37Never.
07:39And that was my drive.
07:41So do you know how your dad got involved in wrestling?
07:47He had worked in the oil fields.
07:49He met someone that knew about wrestling or was involved in wrestling and, you know, saw this big, humongous dude, you know, and said, you'd probably be good.
08:02He would line up on Friday afternoon where they all got paid outside the railroad yard.
08:06And he would stand up against the wall and the guys would pay him 25 to 50 cents.
08:12They would pay him if they could just draw back and hit him in the stomach as hard as they could because it was a bet to try to make him double over.
08:20He would make more money that afternoon in an hour's time than he would the whole week.
08:26So then he got to wild hair and he wanted to get into wrestling.
08:28He was seven foot tall, about 350 pounds, long red hair, big beard.
08:34Looked like he just walked right out of the woods.
08:37I wore a pair of blue jeans and had a rope, this piece of sask cord, that's what it's called.
08:41That was his belt.
08:43If he could ever get a hold of somebody and wrap his arms around him, then that was it.
08:46For you, as a young kid, watch your dad wrestle.
08:53How did it make you feel?
08:55Wow.
08:56How did it make me feel?
08:57Yeah.
08:58I was honored.
09:00I mean, Superman was my dad.
09:02He's the main event.
09:03He, you know, he's the biggest thing on the card.
09:06He really was the biggest thing on the card.
09:08I used to get really freaked out when we'd go to the matches as if I'd not be inside the matches watching him.
09:13He'd get his head busted open or, you know, scratched and he'd go to bleeding and stuff.
09:17I'm six, seven, eight years old and I would totally flip.
09:21So I'd get out of the ring.
09:22I'd go back to the back with him and I'd be crying my eyes out.
09:25And he'd go back there and he'd sit down and the doc would look at him and say,
09:27Chris, I told you I can't do anything else with your head because the skin, the tissue, was tore up so bad.
09:33They'd take it, clean him up, put a butterfly and band-aid on it.
09:35Okay, see you tomorrow night.
09:36You know, and then he would travel to the next town.
09:39It's just an ongoing thing.
09:41You know, I used to think when I was a kid, why does he want to do that?
09:45He'd tell me, he said, I've got to make a living.
09:47I think one of the things that has helped me to understand life and to enjoy life as much as I do is my father.
09:56He would give you a whipping for lying to him.
10:00He'd give you a whipping whenever he thought you needed it.
10:04He'd give you a whipping for making a mistake.
10:06My father was a mean man.
10:11Mean in the way that he tortured us psychologically.
10:15He would play the angle out at home.
10:19His injuries.
10:20His feeling of the upcoming match.
10:23How dangerous this match was going to be with those guys.
10:26And, you know, I look back now and I said, why didn't I figure it out?
10:31You know, they kept showing up in the same territory my dad would go to every damn time.
10:35What the hell?
10:36These guys are chasing my father down.
10:37They're going to kill him.
10:38By the end of the 70s, Grizzly Smith retires from wrestling in the ring and transitions to a management position behind the scenes.
10:55But he would use his power and influence for something much more sinister.
10:59You know, I had been around the business for a little while at that point.
11:02And when I first got there and was in the locker room hearing all the other people who had known Grizzly longer, been around him, talk about him.
11:10The wrestlers always had a way of knocking or talking behind the back of the authority figure or the office personnel.
11:19But I'd never heard it like this.
11:22Every joke, wherever Grizzly wasn't, every single little statement had something to do with,
11:28I wonder if Grizzly's mentoring the young girls or he's probably got one of them on his lap reading her Bible verses.
11:34And they would laugh and they thought that was funny.
11:36I'm like, that's kind of strange.
11:39And I had no idea of the back story that the family had that would come out in years and decades later on.
11:52Everybody knew Grizz.
11:54Everybody had good things to say about him.
11:57You wanted to do road trips with him because you wanted to pick his brain about, like, how could I make myself better?
12:02How do I make more money?
12:03My name is Nicola Roberts.
12:05I worked in the wrestling profession.
12:07My dad promoted in Lubbock, Texas.
12:13Both of my parents were wrestlers.
12:16But how I actually met and got into the Smith family, I think this was like April of 85.
12:22I kind of started talking to Sam a little bit then and July 30th was the very first day that we kissed.
12:31And we got married a year to the date from there.
12:34Baby doll is mother of my children.
12:36I love her immensely.
12:37I always will.
12:39What was your experience with Grizzly Smith?
12:41The craziest thing to go along with the whole Grizzly Smith and the weirdness of it was to do a road trip with him.
12:49We would, like, all of a sudden be, like, 50 miles off the road picking up some 14, 15-year-old girl.
12:57Then she was going to ride with us for three to four days.
13:00And it was just like, you're going to put, okay.
13:05And then her parents were, like, waving on the front yard, like, bye, see you on Tuesday.
13:11It was really weird because it wasn't until after his death that you kind of start finding out, you know, the whole whirlwind of the stories and the whole just horrible stuff that was going on.
13:23And I was there.
13:26And I, you kind of get that feeling like, okay, something, something's not quite right.
13:31And you look for it.
13:33I was right there and I never saw it.
13:44Before embarking on a career in the ring as Jake the Snake Roberts, Aurelian Smith Jr.
13:50endures a traumatic childhood, which would be a source of torment for the rest of his life.
13:56Jake was a mean son of a bitch that didn't care about nothing.
14:02And there's nothing that's out of bounds with Jake.
14:06Aurelian is a completely different cat.
14:10Aurelian hasn't grown since he was 12, 13 years old.
14:15I put him away a long time ago.
14:17I had to.
14:20Because it hurt too much.
14:23I don't think I've been Aurelian in 30 or 40 years.
14:27And I don't know that I ever will be again.
14:29Aurelian feels it.
14:31And Aurelian remembers.
14:34And Aurelian's crippled.
14:37And can't do nothing about it.
14:38But I am more comfortable with Jake now.
14:42I respect Jake.
14:43I know how dangerous Jake can be.
14:45Jake's okay as long as you got him handcuffed.
14:48You know?
14:48You know?
14:49Really.
14:50Seriously.
14:51Aurelian, a very scared kid.
14:54And again, I don't think I've grown since I was about to 13.
15:01When most of that stuff started happening.
15:04What can you tell us about your mother and where she came from and how she ended up with your father?
15:08She was 13 when I was born.
15:12My father was a pedophile.
15:16Disgusting.
15:17Pedophile.
15:20Which would haunt me the rest of my life.
15:23By the age of 17, they need to divorce my mother.
15:27And he left and went on the road.
15:29Leaving us all behind.
15:31Kids got passed out.
15:32My little brother Richard.
15:34He was passed out to my dad's sister and her husband.
15:36They couldn't have children.
15:37My sister JoLynn was, she was tossed everywhere.
15:42She spent too much time with my dad, if you know what I mean.
15:46My mother was blind to a lot of this.
15:48I had a great mother.
15:50Wonderful mother.
15:51Loving mother.
15:53After his parents split up, Jake lives an idyllic life with his grandmother until she passes away when he is 11 years old.
16:01Forcing him to move back in with his father and his new wife, Marsha.
16:05I thought it was going to be the greatest thing he ever met.
16:09This is going to be so cool.
16:10Well, it wasn't cool.
16:16He was forced to take me home with him.
16:19Shortly after I moved in with him, his wife started playing games.
16:25Sometimes games that weren't so funny.
16:28Sexual games.
16:29I went to my dad and told on her one time.
16:35And she stopped me right in the middle of it.
16:40Said, I'll tend to you later.
16:41And she went in and talked to my dad the next day I know.
16:44She beat me with a damn clothes hanger and flyswatter.
16:49It's one thing to have sex, but it's another thing to get beaten for doing it.
16:52Freaked me out.
16:54Little did I know my father was aware of all that.
16:56Because he was doing the same thing to my sisters.
16:58First, I want to say this, is that my intention is not to destroy a legacy that was, you know,
17:09my dad was great at what he did.
17:11He could be a hero.
17:13But to me, he was my monster.
17:20I guess just going back to when it all started, I was probably eight or nine years old.
17:27And the wild thing about it was, was that I remember about a month before the first thing ever happened,
17:39and he basically was working me.
17:44And this is part of the manipulation that I think that people do to kind of groom you and, you know,
17:55get you where they want you, basically.
17:57So for about a month or so before the first thing ever happened,
18:00he was walking around completely ignoring me.
18:04He couldn't stand to be in the same room.
18:05You know, as an eight-year-old kid, I mean, you think, well, what in the world have I done?
18:10All you want is the love of your parents, right?
18:14Then one day, my mother was gone.
18:17And he worked during the day.
18:18He was home working in the office in the back.
18:21And so he called me in the back and just to say, well, you know, you know Daddy loves you.
18:28And I mean, I was so relieved that, you know, oh, he does love me.
18:34He doesn't hate me.
18:35And that turned into the first time he put his hands on me.
18:40So, you come out of that real confused and real, you know, had no idea how to process that.
18:51I mean, you just don't.
18:52I think that very day, it strips you of your security.
18:58It strips you of your self-worth, self-respect, innocence.
19:03It strips you of all the things that make you a child.
19:08It really does.
19:10How long did I take you back?
19:11I think from when I was about eight until about 14, I told my mother about it and she gathered up everything and we left.
19:23At about 15, I actually remember telling him that if he ever did anything again, that I would shoot him with his own gun.
19:31Because I knew where they were.
19:33Jake has spoken about some inappropriateness from being around your mother.
19:39What do you know about that?
19:39All I can tell you is that my mother was not the kind of person that would have tried to be inappropriate if something happened with my mother.
19:50I tend to think that my dad probably asked her to do some things that she never would have done just for his own whatever pleasure.
20:00She was, what, 16, if, whenever they got married.
20:05So, I mean, she was very, very young.
20:06When Robin is 15 years old, her half-sister JoLynn, Grizzly's other daughter, pays her an unexpected visit.
20:16She came, she picked me up, and we went out, we went shopping.
20:19And it's, to me, it seemed like there was just, there was something that she was wanting to tell me or talk to me about or ask me or, she was just asking quite a few questions.
20:31Her main thing was, do I feel safe?
20:34Do I feel comfortable?
20:35I think she wanted to know if I had gone through the same thing, because there was no doubt in my mind that the same thing happened to her.
20:46I don't doubt it to this day.
20:49It just seemed like there was an awful lot on her mind.
20:52And then it was about two weeks later when she was kidnapped.
20:55Richard and Mike and I were at a roller skating rink.
21:12We had gone over there, gone skating.
21:14And they came over the intercom and said, Robin, Mike, Richard, the Smith family.
21:21Got a phone call.
21:23It was Dad, and they told me, he said, you need to get home.
21:24Get home immediately.
21:26So we got home.
21:28Dad left a note in the house that said JoLynn had been kidnapped.
21:34I thought it was kind of crazy at first, because I was like, how does he know she's been kidnapped?
21:38Was there a ransom, or what was going on?
21:41Richard put his hand through the wall.
21:43I bust him, and I totally lost him.
21:47They were very close, Richard and JoLynn.
21:50Closer than any of us.
21:52Somebody has hurt my sister.
21:54I need to find out what my next step is.
21:56I couldn't understand why somebody wanted to kidnap somebody that was so sweet.
22:00She never hurt anybody.
22:01She had no intentions of hurting anybody.
22:02She just wanted to live a happy, free life.
22:05And she was finally happy.
22:07She had a kid.
22:08That mission was accomplished.
22:09It was a quiet, peaceful trailer park she was living in.
22:11She finally had it going on.
22:13And then this.
22:15When you talk about murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, something like that, no.
22:20We just didn't have that.
22:21That just wasn't in Tatum, Texas.
22:24My name's Carl Gage.
22:25My nickname's Buzz.
22:26I've been Buzz all my life.
22:28I'm 69 years old.
22:29In 1979, I was 28, and I was chief of police at Tatum, Texas.
22:34As I remember, just on routine patrol that one particular morning, and the manager from the Cherry Hill mobile home park flagged me down.
22:42I knew him when he said I had a kidnapping out here at the trailer park.
22:45Joe Lynn was there with little Ted, her baby.
22:49They grabbed her and pulled her out and threw her in this car and took off.
22:56Joe Lynn was 5'10", probably weighed 200.
22:59You ain't gonna take her down by yourself.
23:00Me and her used to wrestle, and she's tough, so there ain't no way one person loaded her in that car.
23:09Went right to it pretty quick and got out there, and the door was open.
23:13Of course, we hear something in the house.
23:15And I'm like, what's that?
23:16And he said, well, her baby is in there.
23:18The baby's fine.
23:20Wasn't no problem.
23:21Then the husband got there.
23:23We got in, and I noticed some letters on the little table there by the door, and I said,
23:27one of these, they're addressed to your wife.
23:30I said, that's my ex-wife.
23:32She would send threatening letters to her.
23:35With the menacing letters as evidence, authority's number one suspect becomes Phelan Rogers, the ex-wife of Joe Lynn's husband.
23:43Investigators discover incriminating evidence in Phelan's car, and she eventually confesses to the kidnapping.
23:52But she claims Joe Lynn escaped shortly after the abduction.
23:56Surgeon, oh, Lord have mercy.
23:58We had search parties out.
23:59We had helicopters.
24:01We had horses.
24:02We had motorcycles.
24:03We had people on foot.
24:04I had a psyche call me.
24:07She came down.
24:08I think I can help you out.
24:09I think I'm getting messages from Joe Lynn.
24:12She was given a personal possession of Joe Lynn's.
24:17She was saying, it's just, it's dark.
24:21Maybe like a well or something.
24:23Let's start looking for abandoned wells.
24:25And we got information on a couple of them that had been covered or filled in, so we went out and we checked them.
24:30We never found a body.
24:31Joe Lynn's body is never recovered, making a murder charge impossible.
24:39Phelan is brought to court indicted on the lesser charge of kidnapping, and the Smith family is devastated.
24:46I think that's probably the first time my father ever missed a wrestling match was when my sister was kidnapped.
24:51He went to the trial.
24:53I didn't go to the trial.
24:55I was medicating myself, trying to pass out every day.
24:58The only information we got was through Dad, because we weren't allowed to go to court.
25:05And he just said, no, you're not going to court.
25:07And that was that.
25:09It's amazing that the evidence was overwhelming.
25:12But without the body, and without somebody to say, I saw her kill her.
25:18She got convicted of aggravated, kidnapped and got 33 years.
25:22I think she served seven.
25:25Dad used to carry a piano string in his hand.
25:27You can take a piano string and two pieces of wood and hold it in your hand.
25:30He was hoping to get close enough to her, supposedly, is what I've been told.
25:34He was wanting to get close enough to her, to her that he could be able to do that, and it would kill her.
25:39I was told there was four sheriffs in front and back and on the sides, because Dad was so large.
25:44And they knew with a man that large, once he was mad, it was going to be hell to pay.
25:52Well, like I say, murder is hard to prove.
25:54How can you prove murder?
25:56Go back to the story.
25:57She works at a place that has an incinerator.
26:00I believe that that's where they took her, whether she was conscious, unconscious, or even dead.
26:06I think she found her way to the incinerator.
26:08And now there's no evidence.
26:10It's all gone.
26:11I just started thinking that, who would have the most to lose here?
26:16What's the reason to get rid of her?
26:19And I thought, well, I mean, really, somebody who's got a lot to lose would be Dad, if she
26:24was going to expose him, you know, with the young girls.
26:28And, you know, it would cost him his career.
26:30And so, yeah, I kind of questioned that.
26:33Richard really wanted to go to Unsolved Mysteries, and Dad actually told him he didn't want him to.
26:39I thought, why in the world wouldn't you want that?
26:41They've solved, they actually solve murders.
26:44Dad was against it.
26:45So, you know, that throws in more suspicion there.
26:49Yeah, there's a wild thought.
26:50Did Dad have something to do with it?
26:52Was he involved?
26:53I don't know.
26:55You could bring up a thousand questions on the whole ordeal.
26:57I wish I could say, man, I walked in there, I seen my dad, and he was just bawling his eyes
27:01out.
27:02It tore him to shreds.
27:04I never saw it.
27:05Although a conviction is made for the kidnapping of JoLynn Smith, Jake the Snake Roberts and
27:18his siblings struggle to cope with the tragic loss of their sister.
27:23Was there anything that you took from your experience growing up and put it into your character?
27:30Oh, yeah, the hate.
27:33I use the hate a lot, man.
27:36Thank you, Dad.
27:38The whole snake character was me because I didn't want people looking at me.
27:43Look at the snake bag.
27:44Don't look at me.
27:45Don't ask me questions.
27:46Look at the snake bag.
27:47And everybody fears that.
27:49Everybody knows that.
27:50Kids loved it because Mom and Dad went, oh, I got a snake.
27:53And they loved seeing Mom and Dad do that.
27:54And, you know, so therefore they loved Jake the Snake.
27:58You know, crazy people.
28:02As Jake's stardom continues to reach new heights, Robin seizes the opportunity to pursue a career
28:08in wrestling.
28:09I went to North Carolina and trained with Nelson Royal, who was a fabulous wrestler and legend.
28:19And Nelson trained her like one of the guys.
28:22Wow, okay.
28:23I wanted to change things.
28:26I wanted the girls' matches to be just as exciting, you know, if they could, as the guys.
28:34I mean, why not?
28:35When Robin completes her training, she uses her father's connections to show off her skills
28:40at a WWF TV taping.
28:43And she catches the attention of top promoter Vince McMahon.
28:47So they put me on a dark match with Sherry.
28:50I couldn't tell you how long it lasted.
28:51I mean, it's a complete, total blur to this day.
28:54I have no idea what happened.
28:57All I know is that when I got out, Mr. McMahon had said, oh, my God, she throws a punch like
29:03a guy.
29:04And I was like, cool.
29:05All right.
29:06And then the next thing I know, I get a package in the mail at my house that is airline tickets
29:12and schedule and all that.
29:14And I was like, wow.
29:16You know, it was a total surprise.
29:18Don't count your chickens before...
29:20There's a bulldog!
29:21Off the top rope.
29:22A bulldog!
29:23She's close to the rope.
29:24Turns her over!
29:25Chickens!
29:26No!
29:27I don't believe it!
29:28History has been made here in Paris, France!
29:33At the time, they had Grizz, Sam, Robin, and Jake were all working for the WWE at the time.
29:39In wrestling, the best compliment that you can be given is that somebody say, you're a
29:47hell of a hand.
29:48You're a good worker.
29:49That means that you can not only perform pro wrestling at a high level, but you can do it
29:55without hurting your opponent.
29:57And Sam Houston was the best worker in the family.
29:59He was the lightest.
30:00He was actually too light.
30:01He was painfully thin.
30:03And that was what held him back from being used in a more prominent position, especially
30:08in the bigger territories, Crockett Promotions, the N.W.A.
30:13Poor Sam Houston.
30:15Unfortunately, Mike was like a lot of the other wrestlers.
30:18He got to make it a good money and stuff, was doing good, and then went to drinking.
30:24What was his drinking like at the time?
30:30Whenever he told my dad that we were getting married, he had 32 Crown & Cokes.
30:3732?
30:3832.
30:3832.
30:40It was amazing how much he could drink and still be able to walk.
30:45So did you see that as a problem for him?
30:48The time I thought I would love him enough that it would get better and it wouldn't matter
30:52and that my love could conquer all, and it didn't.
30:56I just realized that it wasn't me.
30:58There was nothing I could have done.
31:00Addictive personality must run through our entire family.
31:04I mean, seriously.
31:06Because there's very strong addictions.
31:10You have to find ways to put that self-respect back into yourself.
31:17After years of living on her own, Robin gets a surprise visit from her father, Grizzly.
31:25The bell rings and I go to open it up and I see him standing there and right by his side, this little girl, about nine years old.
31:35I could tell you the color, everything just drained from my body and I knew for sure this girl's in trouble.
31:47So he comes in and the first thing he says, can you make her a daiquiri?
31:54Do you have the stuff to make her a daiquiri?
31:56She wants to try daiquiris.
31:57It took everything just not to absolutely come apart and come unglued.
32:03And I said, no, I don't.
32:06Shortly after, he went to the back and he went to bed.
32:09I stayed up with her all night.
32:11We never went to sleep.
32:12And I wanted to ask questions and I knew what questions to ask.
32:16I said, you know, sometimes does he pull off to the side of the road and want to give you a kiss?
32:21And she said, yeah.
32:22It didn't scare her, but I mean, she was like, but yeah, it makes me uncomfortable.
32:28He got up the next morning, got all his things together and said, come on, we got to go.
32:32And I said, you're going to go, but she's not going anywhere.
32:36She's staying right here.
32:38I was not letting this girl go anywhere.
32:41I think that told him everything he needed to know about how I felt.
32:46Reeling from the traumas endured in their adolescence, Jake, Robin, and Sam each battle addiction into adulthood.
33:01But for Sam, the consequences become a matter of life or death.
33:05Sam Houston had the all-time Texas state record for most DUI offenses.
33:11And the reason why that he was not jailed for them long before that he was was because Grizzly Smith had been such a big name and such an important person and knew so many people in the state of Texas over all those years and et cetera that he was able to get him out of it.
33:27He never spent more than a day or two in jail before Grizz was right there and got him out because he knew somebody.
33:34And Grizz just knew everybody.
33:36I think he knew something about everybody.
33:38You managed to avoid jail for a while.
33:42Was there a time when your dad was able to help you out with that?
33:44I really don't know because, I mean, everything I was ever charged was always first or first offense or I think I got a second offense.
33:54It was basically always a fine that I'd have to pay and, you know, community service.
33:59Anytime I was doing anything like that, any kind of community service, I always gave it my all.
34:04I watched seven firetrucks one day for the parade, you know.
34:09After years of shocking repeat offenses and lenient punishments, Sam's luck has run out.
34:16Grizzly is unable to come to his rescue and Sam is ultimately sent to prison.
34:22If they caught you doing something 20-something times, how many times have you really done it?
34:28Right?
34:28The Mothers Against Drunk Driving had gotten his record and had seen, like, all the judges and all the magistrates that had gotten Sam off.
34:38Finally, he did have to go to jail.
34:41They're telling me 30 years.
34:44I was at the end of my rope.
34:47So, two days, January the 12th, two days of Saturday night, I knew I had to break my neck when I jumped.
34:56I said, God, only you can stop this.
34:58And I jumped.
35:04I'm going to tell you all, I hit the ground with such force.
35:07The soles of my feet were bruised for weeks.
35:13I know how to tie a knot.
35:14These knots broke.
35:18Meanwhile, Jake spirals deeper into new depths of drug and alcohol-fueled addictions.
35:24I'm not going to sugarcoat this.
35:25A lot of people in professional wrestling, just like a lot of people in professional sports, a lot of people in rock and roll, have had bad personal habits.
35:33Having said that, Jake's were stunning.
35:37The one guy that you would think, this guy's not going to make it, and somehow he always did, and still has.
35:44He was like the Keith Richards of pro wrestling.
35:46The most important thing in my life for 20 years was cocaine.
35:51Above all things.
35:53Above sex.
35:54Above money.
35:55Above children.
35:56Above wives.
35:57Above mama.
35:58Above everything.
35:59Cocaine had to be number one.
36:03That is really messed up.
36:06I will tell you this.
36:07Being in the limelight gets you things that you think you want or you need.
36:12Because when you do drugs, your idea of a good time changes, brother.
36:17You get kind of freaky.
36:19You know, at first it was one girl, and then it was two girls, and then it was three girls doing this with a rabbit and a dog and a donkey and a clown.
36:29Hey, hey, having fun, sitting in the back of a chair with a lamp on my head.
36:32Yeah, it gets stupid.
36:34I guess one of the biggest lows in Jake's career was the heroes of wrestling pay-per-view, and this is story number 747,000 of Jake Roberts showing up in no condition to perform or actually to function as a human being.
36:52A lot of the guys that night put in bad performances just because they were out of shape or past their prime, but with Jake, he was legitimately on planet Neptune.
37:00Everybody knew that Jake was not right, and he had a snake, which became a phallic symbol, and it was a 10-year period or more there, where that more often than not, if Jake Roberts made a public appearance, you would hear about Jake Roberts doing something he shouldn't do in public.
37:20I'm a junkie.
37:21I'm a liar.
37:23I'm a thief.
37:23Do you know how much self-hate is involved in admitting that?
37:31Hell, I had to look at myself in the mirror.
37:33I took all the mirrors down.
37:35The ones that didn't, I broke.
37:37Within years of the WWF phasing out their women's division, Robin ends her career as a wrestler and eventually hits her own rock bottom with alcohol abuse.
37:48Drinking was never a problem.
37:50I did it really well, better than just about anybody at it.
37:55It wasn't necessarily because of not working as much.
38:02I think that had more to do with from my childhood.
38:09You know, unfortunately, the result of that is addiction.
38:13And even with that, I realized that it wouldn't get me anywhere.
38:18And, you know, my father ruined my childhood.
38:21And so I'll be damned if he ruins the rest of my life.
38:24On June 12, 2010, Grizzly Smith dies from complications due to Alzheimer's disease.
38:40He was 77 years old.
38:42His biological son, Richard, who was given up for adoption, would be Grizzly's sole caretaker until the end.
38:49He died while I was in prison.
39:18I mean, I'm in the worst place in the world.
39:20I've just got the most devastating news in the world.
39:24Well, he's got a lot of good qualities.
39:27And he was born out of love and I still love him.
39:30I thought that with him passing, I wouldn't have to think of some things anymore.
39:42But memories don't go away that easily.
39:44Did he ever, at any point in his life, apologize or talk about what he put you through?
39:52No.
39:52No.
39:53Hell no.
39:54I don't think he thought, no.
39:57I don't think he thought he did anything wrong.
39:59You know, there was never any kind of serious conversation, apologies, anything like that.
40:06I think he thought everything was just fine.
40:13Did you ever talk to Robin about her abuse experiences?
40:17A few years ago, we finally did.
40:19I can't imagine.
40:21I can't imagine how devastating that could be to somebody.
40:25You know, and Robin, I guess, like my mom, you know, they knew as a child growing up that my father was Superman to me.
40:33And they wouldn't do anything to tarnish him because they cared for me so much.
40:38Sam idolized his dad.
40:41He probably would have forgiven his dad for it rather than helped his sister.
40:44Why do you think that is?
40:47He could make Sam believe that it was Robin's fault.
40:52Or he could make Sam believe that it was Jake's fault.
40:55It wasn't Grizz's fault.
40:57It was somebody else's fault.
40:59I don't blame anybody at all for the lack of being together.
41:05That was all done early on by Dad.
41:08So, I mean, it's nobody dropped the ball.
41:11It's not anybody's fault.
41:12Well, it just was how it was.
41:18It's me and Dad.
41:20I was probably 10.
41:23He never apologized for giving me up for adoption.
41:27And I never asked for it.
41:29I have no complaints.
41:30I mean, how can I complain?
41:32I'm the lucky one out of the bunch.
41:33It's the way I consider it.
41:34With Grizzly's death, his children finally feel safe enough to open up about their experiences
41:42from childhood, but their estrangement still exists today.
41:46I think there's a certain amount of hope that Robin and I could be friends.
41:51I respect her and I love her very much.
41:53And it'd be nice to have a sister.
41:59Yeah, I'd love to be close with everybody, you know.
42:02I understand, though, that we've all got, like, different paths.
42:06I wish I could have spent more time with my siblings.
42:09Yeah, it sounds good, yeah.
42:11I'd like to try.
42:13And after this, I mean, there's a lot of thoughts going through my mind right now.
42:16It's, uh, maybe I've got to figure out how to do that.
42:22Bridge I've got to cross.
42:23You know, I think this is opening some communication.
42:27It might have a little to do with bringing us a little bit closer in.
42:32I guess this is why I agreed to go ahead and talk about it, was that I want people to really
42:37know it's very, very tough, and I would never say it's easy to get past it.
42:42I don't know that you ever do get past it, but you don't have to stay in it.
42:47You can be successful.
42:49You can overcome it.
42:52And for God's sakes, if there's something you're going through now, if anybody's going
42:56through it now, tell somebody.
42:58You've got to tell somebody.
43:00It will not stop.
43:02You have to tell somebody, and you will get help.
43:06What I want to tell you is this.
43:08You can't glorify what happened to me, but I ain't the only one.
43:11But there's millions of other kids that are going through the same thing as I speak.
43:16If you're one of those kids, run.
43:23Run like the wind.
43:25Go to the police.
43:26Go to your pastor.
43:28Go to the...
43:29Just go.
43:30And if it's already happened to you, you've got to get help.
43:38I'm 65 now, and I'm not ashamed anymore.
43:42Still a little angry at times, but not so angry that I have to medicate it.
43:46I've been sober now for 10 years.
43:4910 years?
43:50I did it.
43:52I made it all the way back.
43:55The bottom line is never, ever, ever give up.
44:01The bottom line is never, ever give up.
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