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02:22I used to always think wrestling was real.
02:26Like, when you're a kid, you think it's real.
02:28Like, that's what she's always was to me.
02:32She was always Luna.
02:34Hi, my name is Van Hurd, and my mom's Luna Vashon.
02:38Ever since I can remember, I was so young.
02:41The mohawk, the bleached hair, the extensions.
02:44Very, very soon, I will wipe you from this earth.
02:50It was nuts.
02:52Like, she would show up to my elementary school with a snake.
02:56I just remember she came to give me a hug, and that snake almost got me.
03:02I was so embarrassed.
03:04I hate to say it, I was.
03:06But then it was just normal for me.
03:10That was my mom.
03:11I definitely believe she loved wrestling more than she loved anything in life.
03:15Her passion truly was professional wrestling.
03:18Anything she's ever spoke to me about in her deeper darkest hours was pro wrestling.
03:24I'm David Heath, better known as Gangrel.
03:25I've been a professional wrestler for 34 years.
03:28Gangrel there.
03:29Look at this team.
03:31The first time I met Luna Vashon was at a Florida championship wrestling show.
03:34She came in, she kicked the door open.
03:36She hollers in, fresh me.
03:38She points at me.
03:39I look around.
03:39I'm the only one there.
03:40And then she just slams the door and walks out.
03:42Now, you've got a picture.
03:43This is a girl with a mohawk, blood all out of her nose.
03:46Her tongue's like, ah.
03:48You know, she's growling at me.
03:49So I was terrified.
03:50I didn't want anything to do with her after I met her that first time.
03:53But we became friends.
03:55So much so that we said, I would never date you.
03:58I would never go out with somebody like you.
03:59And she says, I would never go out with somebody like you either.
04:01And I go, good, I'm glad we agree on that.
04:03And I don't know, somewhere across the lines.
04:06There's many faces to my mom.
04:09Her real name was Gertrude.
04:11And she used to, like, tell me nightmare stories about how she had to stand in front of class
04:16and tell everybody her name was Gertrude.
04:19And then when they found out that her dad and her uncles were the Vachons,
04:23and they were, like, some of the most hated tag team ever.
04:29All of the Vachon family are like wrestling royalty in Canada.
04:36I'm Mick Foley, often known as the hardcore legend.
04:39Luna's uncle was Maurice Mad Dog Vachon.
04:44Her aunt was Vivian Vachon.
04:50Luna's father was Paul Butcher Vachon.
04:53All of the Vachons were, you know, odd in a beautiful type of way.
04:59Brutal chop to the neck.
05:00So Butcher Paul Vachon had his moments.
05:03My name is Paul DeMutcher Vachon.
05:09And I am the father of Luna Vachon.
05:14Luna's origins with the Vachon family are rooted in a chance encounter
05:19following a harrowing tragedy on December 18, 1966.
05:23I was wrestling in Atlanta, Georgia.
05:29And I was staying at a motel.
05:34And I heard a gunshot.
05:36And at first I opened the door and looked around and couldn't see anything.
05:42So I went back to sleep.
05:45The next morning there was a knock at my door.
05:49And she said, the man that owned this motel shot himself.
05:58He was my husband.
06:02And I met her daughter, who was then four years old,
06:08who became my daughter because I married the widow.
06:14To Luna, I was the only father she ever knew.
06:18Adopted into the Vachon dynasty,
06:21Luna is instantly enamored by her new family's celebrity status.
06:25My aunt was one of the greatest female wrestlers of all time.
06:29She was known as the wrestling queen.
06:31Come on, break her leg!
06:34I grew up going on the road and cleaning up the dressing room for her
06:39and helping her put the curlers in her hair.
06:41And that's all I wanted to do was be like my Aunt Vivian.
06:44She wanted nothing more than to join that kind of pantheon and, you know, carry on the tradition.
06:54They tried to talk her out of it.
06:56She did talk about how her family said,
06:58this is really a very hard industry for women, but there was no stopping her.
07:05My name is Janine Mioset.
07:07I used to be known as Mad Maxine or Lady Maxine.
07:11Well, I'm six foot two and I've always been athletic.
07:15I love costumes.
07:17I'm an extrovert.
07:18I thought, why not use what God gave me to, you know, really make a splash?
07:22I went out and got a mohawk.
07:25I think moolah saw money in my mohawk.
07:31To train at moolahs was like going, the equivalent of going to Harvard.
07:37I mean, she was the place that women went to become professional women wrestlers.
07:43It is the fabulous moolah!
07:47Also training with the fabulous moolah, Mad Maxine meets a teenage Luna,
07:52whose sweet demeanor is worlds away from her alter ego.
07:56She looked like a baby face.
07:58She had this very cherubic, very sweet face.
08:01And when you would say, you should be a baby face, she would get so mad
08:06because all she ever wanted was to be like a badass heel.
08:10I had a strong sense of trepidation because what I saw going on at this camp,
08:18the young underage trainees, the little lambs as I think of them,
08:23you know, the naive young women who thought they could trust moolah,
08:28thought she was like a mother figure, but then she would take advantage.
08:31I've never really seen her afraid of anybody,
08:33but I know when moolah would walk into a room,
08:35she would just shake and be super nervous and scared,
08:38like they've been beaten or something like that.
08:40So I know moolah held a lot of power over her.
08:43Moolah would say something like,
08:44you're sleeping with me tonight, hon, or something like that.
08:47So, you know, I just heard a lot of stories like that.
08:50She said that moolah had sent her out to this guy in the West,
08:56and the guy said he'd pay her $500 to take photographs.
09:01She didn't know that you can't just trust people.
09:03And so she went out there, the guy attacked her, tried to rape her.
09:11She fought him off.
09:15Obviously, you can't trust a person who's going to do that to a 16-year-old girl.
09:19It's just, it was appalling.
09:22But she said, you know, moolah's the only show in town.
09:25You've got to train with her if you want to make it in the business.
09:28Every girl that trained with her has a moolah story of some sort.
09:33My name is Kim Sachs.
09:35You might also know me as Penelope Paradise.
09:37Or, better yet, the great and powerful, beautiful, but very deadly Penelope Paradise.
09:43She had such high hopes, and she wanted so much.
09:47I mean, she wanted to be Hulk Hogan.
09:49She wanted to be, like, the best heel there was.
09:53Luna leaves moolah's camp behind to join Championship Wrestling from Florida,
09:58where Kevin Sullivan and his army of darkness are terrifying fans across the state.
10:04Kevin Sullivan had a great mind.
10:06You had to be able to draw from the same cities every single week,
10:11and you did that by getting them emotionally invested.
10:15Characters had to be on almost 24-7.
10:18I have done some horrible things in the past.
10:21They were not afraid to get fans upset.
10:26Really upset.
10:29Evil and darkness has always prevailed.
10:32I saw a face of fear.
10:34Kevin had Florida scared to death of him.
10:37Just, you know, Tampa was scared to death of him.
10:41Pandemonium everywhere, baby!
10:43And people thought that he was passing curses on to them.
10:46All this devil stuff, and nobody had really seen anything like that.
10:49But people were legitimately scared of him.
10:52On behalf of Sports Review magazine...
10:55In October of 1985, Luna makes her debut as an unassuming journalist,
11:00and her character quickly falls victim to the dark powers of Kevin Sullivan.
11:05Oh, my God. Oh, no, he just...
11:07My mom coming out as a reporter, and then Kevin Sullivan came out and whacked her face.
11:12And all of a sudden, she turned into a Luna.
11:15You know, she was considered crazy and crazy and lunatic.
11:20Basically the same thing, so lunatic Luna.
11:22And now Luna offered up everything to me.
11:27She stripped herself of vanity.
11:32You know, she shaved her head, and she put all these kind of veins on her face,
11:37and she interacted with the camera and with the fans,
11:40and in a way that was just monstrous.
11:43You know, it wasn't as though she went behind the curtains after her match,
11:51and then all of a sudden, she's just, you know, Luna.
11:54She carried on the pretense that this was who she actually was.
12:03Well, that's it for Coach's Corner.
12:05With her new career now taking off, Luna indulges in the extreme excesses of the era.
12:11It snowed every day in Miami in the 80s, is basically what everyone said back then.
12:16If my memory serves me correctly, it was like Quaaludes and Coke and acid.
12:25She pushed every boundary she could come across.
12:29How can you take 100 pills a day?
12:32How do you even get 100 pills a day?
12:33She wanted everything to look like, you know, everything was beautiful and all roses.
12:41You knew it wasn't, but that's what she tried to portray to the best of her ability.
12:45I don't think it was a very easy childhood with her having a wrestler staying in the house.
12:50I mean, she's claimed to have been, you know, raped and stuff like that.
12:54I believe there was some inappropriate family relations, maybe.
13:00I didn't know Vivian at all.
13:04I never met her.
13:05She didn't talk about her very much.
13:07Well, she just said that she was abused by her aunt.
13:10And I mean, and she just kind of basically left it at that.
13:13She didn't want people to know that.
13:15Like a little girl could idolize you.
13:18You want to do something and you want to be like somebody.
13:20They idolize something.
13:21And people will use that against you.
13:22And I think that very much happened to her.
13:24I wasn't there, so I didn't see it.
13:26But with my heart, I believe some of it.
13:28And I think probably set the path of the course with some of the self-destruction later on in life,
13:32which is called love, that wouldn't really love, you know.
13:34I don't think knowing the family that she's from, that anybody would know that.
13:44I don't believe it.
13:53Luna Vashon's deranged antics captivated audiences.
13:57But unknown to fans, her over-the-top persona was born from a lifelong struggle with mental health outside the ring.
14:04She was studied from the Emory University since she was two years old for depression and being bipolar and schizophrenia and stuff like that.
14:11So it was a rollercoaster, hoopty hoops and loopty loops.
14:15Luna has this persona of being just tough, badass, but really she was like the shyest person in the room.
14:22We call, a lot of people call her Angelle or I call her Angelle.
14:25I think that's what her dad would call her instead of, because she hated Gertrude or Trudy, you know.
14:29Give it 10 minutes, it's like the Florida weather.
14:31If she'd change, she'd be some other personality.
14:34There was like Angel, Trudy, Donchelle, you know, and then there was Luna.
14:39She was chemically imbalanced.
14:42She was definitely bipolar.
14:45In her day-to-day life, you would call her Angel.
14:47And she spoke with this childlike voice, you know.
14:51And then you could be hanging out with her and she'd get a phone call and they'd piss her off.
14:56And then all of a sudden, she's Luna and she's crazy for the rest of the day.
15:00I mean, one time we were in Tampa and Luna and I had to share a room.
15:05And she got into a tangent.
15:08You know, she just snapped for whatever reason.
15:10One thing led to another and it's me and her.
15:12From bed to bed, lamps are flying.
15:15In the end, you would think we were killing each other.
15:18You know, and then now we got to go wrestle.
15:21Even no matter how mad you get, somebody can hold you and say, okay, you've got to stop.
15:28And you couldn't do that with her.
15:30She would always make a joke like, oh, I better take my little blue pill.
15:32But she knew if she was really wobbly, let's say, it would be probably difficult to be married to her.
15:41Yeah, but like picking Dickie wasn't the best situation.
15:46Dirty Dick Slater.
15:47I hear they call you Filthy Richard in parts unknown, but that's another story.
15:52That was my first stepdad.
15:53I heard he used to beat my mom up.
15:55I never saw anything.
15:56I never even really saw them, see them fight.
15:58I never saw them fight, ever.
16:00I never saw him lay a hand on her.
16:02I saw her with bruises after the fact.
16:04And I'm quite sure she did not give them to herself.
16:06And when they split up, you know, I was like, okay, good.
16:09You know, that's something that's out of her life.
16:12So I met her at Florida Championship Wrestling.
16:14Terrified at this woman.
16:15Swore her up.
16:15Bloody no.
16:16Scared to death.
16:17Fresh me.
16:17So next thing you know, I'm tagging with a fellow named Tom Nash.
16:20We're doing a black heart thing.
16:21And it turns out that Tom knew her from school.
16:24So then down the road, a month or two or down the road or something, he goes, hey, Luna called in.
16:29And she wants to go down to training.
16:31Well, listen, I'm like, no, I don't want anything to do with her.
16:34But still, I don't know why.
16:36Whatever.
16:36The forces of the universe, the nature, whatever.
16:39We get in there.
16:40She's in the back seat.
16:41He's sitting over here.
16:42I'm driving.
16:43And then she crawls over.
16:45And she starts hitting me.
16:47Like, why don't you like me?
16:48Why don't you like me?
16:49And she's like, she rips my shirt off.
16:50And so I get to the house.
16:52The fellow's name's Rusty Brooks.
16:53He had a ring in his backyard.
16:54And out of nowhere, I don't know if she jumped off the top rope or where she came from.
16:59But she latched down and bit me in the middle of my back.
17:02She was on like a pit bull.
17:04I couldn't get her off.
17:05I mean, I'm like trying to reach.
17:06She's locked in there.
17:07Why don't you?
17:08So I end up diving through the ropes, which breaks her off me.
17:11And I got her against this tree.
17:13And he's like, no, hey, that's Dick Slater's girl.
17:16But I go, she's crazy.
17:17She's bit me.
17:18You know, he goes, that's Luna, you know, chill out.
17:22And before that, scar healed on my back.
17:25That's why I was called the original vampire.
17:26Because before the scar healed on our back, we were best friends.
17:29With Luna as their manager, Tom Nash and David Heath become fixtures on the independent wrestling circuit as the Blackhearts.
17:37Listen, you worry nothing about the snakes.
17:39You should worry about the tag team titles because they are going to be around the waist of the Blackhearts.
17:45Tom had a big crush on her.
17:46And the next thing you know, like, they were married.
17:50Daughter, he did.
17:51He adored her.
17:51And he did love her.
17:52He did love her.
17:53Tom Nash and my mom were married.
17:57And Tom used to go to work.
18:00And then Dave used to show up.
18:02So that's some shady shit right there.
18:04They got in a few fights.
18:05And then he accused me of being with her.
18:08And he started talking a lot of stuff.
18:10I know you guys are together, this and this and that.
18:13And then he swung on me and then I snapped.
18:16I feel really bad.
18:17I puked in the bathroom the next day at the airport when I saw what I could do to somebody.
18:21The fallout from the fight breaks up the Blackhearts.
18:24And shortly after, Luna's brief marriage to Tom Nash also comes to an end.
18:28I look at her as this wildflower on the side road.
18:32You ever see a beautiful wildflower just blowing in the wind?
18:34If you pick it and you cage it, it's going to die, you know.
18:38So you just should admire it from afar for the beauty it is.
18:41She was a beautiful person.
18:43And she had a lot, a lot of love in her.
18:45She just wanted to be loved and was so misunderstood, you know.
18:47So where was the wedding?
18:50It was great.
18:51It was too many.
18:51It was a Halloween.
18:52So I wrestled a steel cage match that night.
18:54Came home right at midnight.
18:56Then we got married.
18:58Yeah, instead of wedding rings, we got vampire bites.
19:02Then I got her here.
19:04I got there.
19:07Put it on my drinking hand so I remember not to drink too much so she wouldn't kill me.
19:12The newlyweds performed together across the globe with an eye to eventually breaking into
19:21the World Wrestling Federation.
19:23She was sending stuff in for me to get booked.
19:27She was sending my stuff from Puerto Rico and had me and her in it.
19:30And then she got hired.
19:31And I'm not going to lie, I was like jealous and stuff like that.
19:34I was like, aw, bro.
19:35I was super, super happy for her at the same time.
19:37On April 4th, 1993, Luna's dreams would come true as she debuts in the WWF on wrestling's
19:46grandest stage, Wrestlemania.
19:48You're watching Wrestlemania and all of a sudden your mom's coming out with Shawn Michaels.
19:53They're in Caesar's Palace.
19:55They're outside.
19:57And then I heard Sherry Martell get into it.
20:00Oh, she close by Sherry.
20:02Oh, did she now hurt her?
20:04Luna, the God, picking Sherry off.
20:07I was like, oh my goodness.
20:09She did it.
20:10She did it.
20:11That was her dream and there she is.
20:14She was the first female ever to be on a video game.
20:17The game was called WWF Raw.
20:21We got that whole console just for that game.
20:24And I, Luna Vashon, I will be the goddess of the squared circle.
20:34All you're doing is trying to make it as a wrestler.
20:39And then if you put in all the extracurriculars like the drugs, the depression and the bipolar,
20:44it just keeps, it just days, it's running, it days, it keeps going fast.
20:47Next thing you know, it's gone.
20:49After 15 years of self-sacrifice and struggling in the independent territories,
21:01Luna Vashon finally reaches the pinnacle of the wrestling world.
21:05Luna Vashon!
21:06I'd see her a little bit, sometimes once a year, once or twice a year.
21:11She was grinding.
21:12She was on the road.
21:13I was with my grandma.
21:14A lot of girls didn't have children.
21:16A lot of the girls did not have children because, or they had them very late after their careers
21:22were over.
21:24Because they, I mean, you can't.
21:26She lived in this little pink 1950s trailer that had like this porch addition to it.
21:32I knocked on her door and she was, she had obviously been crying.
21:36Her eyes were all swollen.
21:38And I asked her what was wrong and she said it was one of her son's birthday.
21:42And I had, I didn't even know she had kids until that point.
21:45She did not talk about her kids, mostly.
21:47My mom hit the road.
21:49She had a dream.
21:51And she went and did it.
21:52This man makes me hot.
22:01A few months later, Luna is paired with WWF star Bam Bam Bigelow.
22:06While she is regularly appearing on national television, Luna rarely gets to showcase her
22:12in-ring skills.
22:13At that time, there just wasn't a lot of emphasis.
22:17On women's wrestling in WWE or in the United States as a whole.
22:22So the women who were really talented in the ring were often utilized as managers.
22:32Luna was a real wrestler.
22:33She was a hardcore real wrestler and she should never have been relegated to ballet status.
22:39I mean, we had five to six girls on a roster.
22:41That was our roster back in the day in a federation.
22:45Really?
22:45Hi, my name is Debra.
22:47Otherwise, my wrestling fans know me as Medusa.
22:51To the outside!
22:53To the top!
22:54There really wasn't a women's division.
22:57There wasn't anything they did really well with the women.
23:00It was a men's committee, just a men at a roundtable, circle-jerking, not knowing what to do with women.
23:08Why don't we have our names on the freaking paper or the marquee?
23:12And it was da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da and more.
23:16We were, and more, half the time.
23:19It really pissed us off.
23:21You know, Luna and I did not like that at all.
23:23The saying has always been, the girls have to work 100% harder to just get 10% of the recognition.
23:3090% of the guys were perfect gentlemen.
23:33They were fine.
23:34There's always that 10%.
23:36There's always one or two in the dressing room that's got to be a smartass.
23:40And, you know, Luna would go around going, my is bigger than your .
23:43You know, and those were things that she did.
23:47I remember being in Canada, and we were wrestling.
23:51And I said, Luna, you know, at this point, I don't give a shit.
23:55Let me drop the belt to you.
23:57She was like, I can't do that, man, I can't.
24:00I said, yeah, I'm going to drop the belt.
24:01What are they going to do?
24:03Fire me?
24:03Okay.
24:04Whatever.
24:05I am just so sick of them not doing anything further with us women, and especially you.
24:11And they don't have the audacity just one time in Canada, of all places, not, won't even drop you the belt.
24:19Really?
24:20I said, let's go.
24:21When we go home, we go, bada bing, bada boom, here's the comeback.
24:24Quick, you know, roll me at one, two, three.
24:27She goes, are you serious?
24:29You'd do that for me?
24:29I said, yeah, let's do it.
24:32I will lay down and give you the belt.
24:34And she just, like, f***ing lost it.
24:36She was crying, and she's like, I can't do it.
24:39I won't do it.
24:40I won't let them fire you over something like this.
24:43I remember I was just laying, like, getting there for the three count, and she pulled me up and wouldn't do it.
24:49And I'm like, let, f***ing, just do it.
24:51She wouldn't do it.
24:53I tried.
24:55She never, ever had the belt.
24:56She never had the title there.
24:58Frustrated over the lack of opportunity for female wrestlers, Luna forges a bond with Sherry Martell, another skilled wrestler downgraded to manager status.
25:11I stand just like any other good woman, me and Jean.
25:14I'm going to stand right by my man.
25:17Sherry, let's go.
25:18Yes, sir.
25:19On her way.
25:20Sensational Sherry.
25:21She loved Sherry.
25:23She loved Sherry to death.
25:24They were friends.
25:25They traveled together.
25:26They were thick as thieves.
25:29They would come home, like, Luna would be asleep for, like, three days.
25:36I'm like, I could poke a stick at her, like, what's going on here?
25:40I knew nothing about pills or plastisms or anything like that.
25:45So, when I found out, like, she was taking these pills and they were Sherry and all that at the front of her, it didn't go well.
25:52I think it was her darkest times.
25:54My personal opinion, where she was out of control, like, beyond, like, like, she could have, you know, died any, it was, like, just that bad.
26:03Luna could have been right there at the top, you know, and there's no reason she couldn't have.
26:07But it's just between the mental deficiencies of whatever it was that she had and the drugs.
26:18They put me at rehab because I was drinking.
26:20And then when I got to rehab, they fired me.
26:24Their excuse was, as they said, it's for her own good.
26:28They said they were always worried about her mental health.
26:30You know, they said it's for her own good.
26:32Is there, like, positive stuff that you learned from growing up like this?
26:36Yeah, don't do drugs.
26:39For real.
26:41She probably chose her extracurricular activity into the drugs because of wanting just to forget.
26:50And it's like a facade.
26:52Sometimes when you get so soaked up and just caught up into it all, you get lost.
26:58And she always would try to kill herself.
27:01She did it a couple times.
27:03Like, you ever see her wrists or big scars?
27:06It's weird.
27:07Like, you look at your mom like, why did you do that?
27:09You know what I mean?
27:10Why would you do that?
27:11Despite her personal struggles, Luna Vashon is recommended to burgeoning indie promotion ECW by her longtime friend Nancy Sullivan, a.k.a. woman.
27:28The ECW fans really embraced Luna.
27:32They had a way of seeing through the imposters and spotting the real deals.
27:37And they saw in her somebody that they could invest in emotionally who could mix it up with the guys.
27:44And no one doubted that she could kick Stevie Richards' ass.
27:48And here comes Luna.
27:50She was the queen of extreme.
27:53That was no bullshit.
27:55She was in her element.
28:00And Richard's face first into this deal again.
28:03And Luna's loving it.
28:05She had a lot of fun in being a woman versus a man in a cage and being the first.
28:09She liked being the first at a lot of things and pushing the barriers and stuff like that.
28:15Comes down across Richard.
28:17One, two, and Luna makes history.
28:22Winning the first ever intergender cage match.
28:26I love teaming up with Luna.
28:27There's a photo of us, like, holding on to a steel cage and snarling.
28:32She could go anywhere in the world and she could entertain.
28:35And she could hold her own with anyone.
28:38And I'm including the men when I say anyone.
28:42God lives in fact.
28:45She's a devil in disguise.
28:47In the late 90s, the WWF's shift to increasingly provocative storylines would see Luna Vashon as a perfect addition to the roster.
28:55And she eventually rejoins the company.
28:58However, she's once again assigned a supporting role.
29:01Now, just to have women as valets and stuff like that and being stifled and not being able to work, it would piss me off.
29:11You'd want to wrestle when you're a wrestler, right?
29:14While Luna's pairing with Goldust eventually leads her back into the ring, she clashes with the WWF's new direction for women's wrestling.
29:21To make matters worse, Luna is set to lose a high-profile match to Sable, a model groomed for wrestling superstardom who has no experience in the ring.
29:32She said, I don't have to learn to take months because Vince has told me I'm going to be the women's champion.
29:44Shut up, I'm reading.
29:46The way my psyche felt at that point, knowing the dues I had paid, how my family had stopped talking to me because I wanted to be a lady in this business.
29:57My children were growing up without me.
30:00I was growing up without them.
30:02All for wrestling.
30:04It tore me apart.
30:06Sable wasn't a wrestler.
30:08And Sable was a beautiful woman.
30:09I mean, she probably still is.
30:10I don't know.
30:11But, you know, she didn't want to walk around with a scratch or a scar or a bruise or anything like that.
30:16That wasn't what her gimmick was.
30:18At WrestleMania 14, Luna succeeds in making Sable appear as a future women's champion.
30:24And now let's get it on.
30:25Now we're talking WrestleMania.
30:31This is the Super Bowl of wrestling.
30:35I was told by Vince McMahon, by Bruce, you scratched your eye with people.
30:39She's choking.
30:40She's pulling hair.
30:41No fairs.
30:42She's out.
30:44There's an enormous amount of pressure that goes into having a match with somebody who is relatively inexperienced.
30:53No way.
30:54Powerball.
30:55Powerball, Luna.
30:58And so when you take a veteran like Luna, you are basically saying, we trust you to make this person look the very best they can.
31:08Sable with a TKO.
31:10Unbelievable.
31:11She gets it through the match and everything.
31:17And Luna's like super stoked that she got it through.
31:19Happy for the girl.
31:20You know, come back.
31:21She's happy for it.
31:23Luna comes back in.
31:24And she sees Vince McMahon there and they're clapping.
31:27She thinks that they're clapping at her and telling her, great job gal, you did it, you get it.
31:32They were looking over.
31:33It was Sable behind them.
31:35I passed by and nobody said, thank you, kiss my ass or suck my dick.
31:40You know, I tried talking to Luna, what's wrong?
31:45And she just broke down in tears.
31:47Nobody appreciates what I did.
31:49It hurt her.
31:50You know, she wanted to be acknowledged for being something other than strange.
31:54She wanted to be acknowledged for what she could do in the ring.
31:57And on that night, you know, we call it the grandest stage of them all.
32:00They had this barn burner of a match and it really hurt her that she was not noticed for it.
32:09Sonny came to Luna.
32:10And I think Sonny came to Luna in a nice, which I'm like, oh, don't worry about when she's like, ah.
32:14So she said, get away from me.
32:16And then Sonny wouldn't get away from her.
32:18So I remember she just came up, threw her through a box, put her into a production box and just kept hitting her on top of the head saying, I'm not punching her face.
32:24I'm not punching her face.
32:26Because she knew if she hit Sonny in the face, she'd be fired.
32:29Poor Sonny never knew what hit her.
32:31Yeah, it was kind of crazy.
32:33But it was just Luna being really hurt and lashing out.
32:37Nobody talked about mental health, but like at the same time, that was her gimmick too.
32:41So like, it wasn't a show.
32:44I can tell you it wasn't.
32:45I think it was all the same.
32:48There was no line.
32:49It was a blurred line, you know.
32:51Luna, Angel, Trudy, Mom.
32:55No one spoke about that shit.
32:57You know what I mean?
32:58About people's mental illness or whatever.
33:01They saw and they were scared and they just didn't.
33:05That was it.
33:05Her just being not accepted in this business to a level where she thought she deserved it because of her skills and her as a worker and what she brought to this business.
33:19Let's beat our contestants in the first ever Miss Rumble 2000 contest.
33:31WWF's creative direction for women's wrestling is increasingly at odds with Luna's desire to showcase her in-ring prowess, making a final showdown with CEO Vince McMahon inevitable.
33:43When the Attitude Era started, it was just all sexuality.
33:47I couldn't believe even Luna was putting up with that shit, really, because she was so old school like me.
33:52She definitely felt pressured.
33:54She didn't feel pretty, you know.
33:57Now that you got models around you, they can't feel good.
34:01Did she say, come and get it?
34:02About right here is where they'll start hitting that pause button on the tape.
34:05They wanted Luna to take her top off and she said, you spent all these years making me ugly and be ugly and now you're asking me to...
34:11And she stood up the vents in front of everybody.
34:13I guess what you see is what you get.
34:15Okay.
34:16If you're asking my opinion, I don't know.
34:18They didn't fire out and out for refusing to take that off and standing up to them.
34:22I think it waited like a week or two and then they used that as the excuse to fire her.
34:25After a number of backstage incidents and escalating erratic behavior, Luna is released from the WWF for the final time.
34:34I dare to be different.
34:36I dare to have the balls to do the gimmick that I do and rip my vocal cords till I don't sound like a female.
34:46I just would do it.
34:47Take a bullet for Vince McMahon.
34:49Take a train hitting me for Vince McMahon.
34:52And it had nothing to do with money.
34:54It didn't.
34:55It just has to do with me really caring about this business and caring about women in this business.
35:01Seeing that and wanting it to be different.
35:06When she got fired or came home, she was like, I'm in the bedroom, vampire.
35:10I actually just shook my head and kind of laughed when I seen this.
35:12So on cocaine, she had written out, F*** you, Vince.
35:16And then she goes, watch.
35:18And she just started like, I'm like, oh, and then it was just downhill after that.
35:24I mean, an easy night, an easygoing night could be, I don't know, a couple eight balls, ten hits of ecstasy or something like that.
35:33I didn't understand her need to like, gotta have more, gotta have, like, I gotta get more, let's go get more.
35:39I'd be like, no, you know.
35:41That's ultimately what drove us apart.
35:46He was smart enough to get out.
35:49That's how bad it was, yes.
35:51I remember him telling me that.
35:53He said he didn't have a choice.
35:55He had to.
35:56Otherwise, they'd both be dead.
35:59When we talked, she would talk about getting back together sometimes.
36:01I said, well, just, we can't.
36:03So then I think what I did is I ran away as far as I could to California.
36:06Unfortunately, I got married and it wasn't the right thing to do.
36:10Like, just, just, it just went and did everything I could not to come back.
36:15She was in a lull and she was like, trying to be normal.
36:19She didn't, she wasn't wrestling.
36:20She was a waitress.
36:22And there was a time Luna showed up at my house.
36:25She, like, is beating on the door.
36:27I open the door.
36:27She runs past me and she's got a gun in her hand.
36:30I don't know where she got the gun.
36:31I don't know what, you know, is somebody chasing you?
36:33What, you know?
36:33And she's just talking crazy.
36:35I had to get the gun away from her.
36:36And, and I still never knew what happened, but she was frantic and she was crazy, you
36:41know, so I could never have anything like that around my kids.
36:45I was like, Luna, you know, I got these kids and I, I mean, I had, I'm not going to beat
36:50around the bush.
36:51I said, I can't, you're not stable enough.
36:54And I was like, it's just not going to work.
36:58She wasn't in control of her entire life.
37:01And so there's this real feeling of gratification that comes from being able to hold a crowd
37:08in the palm of your hand.
37:09Man, Luna's sick.
37:10She's going up top.
37:11Like, maybe you don't have it all together.
37:14The other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, but for that 15 minutes you're in the ring,
37:19you are completely in control.
37:22And that's a powerful feeling.
37:23The biggest challenge that all of us who love it face is trying to find something that
37:32makes us feel the way we felt when we were in the ring.
37:36And, uh, I don't know if Luna ever found that thing.
37:41How did your relationship with your mom change after she left wrestling?
37:44And we didn't talk that much.
37:46I was in culinary school.
37:49I was in Texas.
37:50She was in Florida.
37:52I remember her, uh, driving a tow truck.
37:57She was hanging out with these bikers, outlaw bikers.
38:00I don't know why.
38:01She never even met my daughter because I don't think she thought she was good enough.
38:05That's that mental illness, you know?
38:07I talked to Luna for a final time just a few weeks before she left us.
38:20I was so surprised because she told me she was in a good place.
38:24Uh, it came as a shock.
38:26How did you find out she passed away?
38:29Uh, I was flying to do a chef dinner in Ohio from Connecticut.
38:35And, uh, my grandma called and said that my mom had, that she had just found my mom dead.
38:45That had to have been a rough time for her.
38:48You never want to see your kids, you know, die before you do.
38:52I heard she choked, but then I also heard it was an overdose, the wrong mix of things.
38:59It could have been either one, honestly.
39:01I don't really care.
39:03She's not here anymore.
39:04That sucks.
39:05You know, I really care how she died.
39:08On August 27, 2010, Luna Vashon's battles with addiction and mental illness finally come to an end.
39:17You know, the thing is, if you really love people and understand them while they are alive,
39:28nobody survived this world.
39:30We've lost so many people in this business, you know, not just from drugs and pills and steroids, but, I mean, from mental health, from just, I truly believe that there could have been a lot of help for a lot of talent in our business.
39:48We need to do better.
39:49We need to do better.
39:50As an industry.
39:51I remember just my heart aching.
39:56And, you know, I was always really hurting.
39:59And I really, I really adored her.
40:02I thought that her family and her fans would appreciate a eulogy of sorts.
40:09And so, uh, I'd like to read this a little bit if I could.
40:14I said, in a world full of butterflies, it took balls to be a caterpillar.
40:19I loved that quote from Luna, and in a way I can't help but hope that this life was but a chrysalis of sorts for her.
40:27That for a woman who never seemed completely comfortable in her own skin, this life was just a prelude to becoming the beautiful butterfly God always meant for her to be.
40:37But that would be too easy and so anti-Luna.
40:40There are enough beautiful butterflies out there already.
40:43Maybe we should be able to appreciate the beauty of the caterpillar without needing or wanting it to change for our viewing pleasure.
40:50Maybe Luna was perfect just as she was.
40:54Maybe she was exactly who she was supposed to be.
40:58She never thought she was pretty enough to be a wrestler.
41:01She never saw herself as beautiful.
41:02If you look at her eyes, they're green, she had the most beautiful eyes.
41:05If you looked into them, you know, but people just seeing this Luna, they see this character and this persona,
41:10but they never seen Trudy or Angel, you know, looked in there and seen the innocence that's really in there, the innocence lost.
41:17People say, how did you stay together so long?
41:20And then I go, if you really want me to be honest, I think I was just worried nobody else could even take care of her.
41:25I love her so much, but like, should we have been together that long? No.
41:29You know, were we self-destructive and explosive and everything? Yes.
41:34But I feel a lot of guilt for her passing, you know, and like, I feel like I wasn't there to take care of her.
41:41Like, you know, maybe it was selfish on my end.
41:43It probably was selfish, but I don't think we're both are going to make it.
41:46We would have both ended up in a dark fate.
41:48And I'm sorry, you know, Tyler's sorry for that too, because I miss her.
41:53You know, I'm sorry for being selfish like that.
41:57You know, to not have a funeral, I think that was one of the hardest things for me to accept.
42:06When Luna passed, if it was Luna's choice, she would have had like a team of Harley-Davisons pulling down the streets of Tampa with her casket and, you know, firecrackers and fireworks and sparklers shooting out of it.
42:22And everybody would know, you know, they were all going to come see her final hurrah.
42:29No, she wouldn't have wanted that.
42:32That's not her style.
42:34She was private.
42:35She wanted to be left alone.
42:37She was good.
42:39Any regrets?
42:41Well, I wish that I would have changed things for women more.
42:45I regret that I gave up my family and didn't get what I wanted the most.
42:50And that was the WWF women's title, which I guess basically isn't all that I thought it was.
42:58Luna would have loved today's women's wrestling environment.
43:02She would have loved the physicality.
43:08She would have loved that she would get to work with some of the best wrestlers in the world on a nightly basis.
43:14Yeah, I think she'd be really happy to know how far women's wrestling has come.
43:19Well, she was such a colorful character.
43:24She added so much to everything she was part of.
43:27And she was great in the ring.
43:29There's nobody like her.
43:31She's original.
43:32That's for sure.
43:34If Luna were here today and she was talking to you, like if she was behind my shoulder with her hands on my shoulder, she would look into the camera and go,
43:45What the **** is wrong with you?
43:47Why did you wait till I was **** dead before you did anything about me?
43:52I should have had this done when I was alive.
43:54You could have come over and you could have talked to me.
43:57You wouldn't have this little **** imitating me.
43:59That's what she would have said.
44:01What did you do?
44:02Peace.
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