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02:08He's always been superstar.
02:10My name is Capella Flaherty and I am the daughter of superstar Billy Graham.
02:14I remember being in a match with my brother and the ceiling of the arena opened up and
02:21the sunbeams shone down on my dad and he just lit up.
02:25When that light shone on him, there was no getting away from it.
02:29Oh, they're superstar.
02:30They're superstar.
02:31They're superstar.
02:32The superstar Billy Graham.
02:35He was more superstar than he was Wayne Coleman, at least to myself and my brother.
02:42When he was Wayne Coleman, he was loving and he loved us.
02:47But I think he loved being superstar a little bit more.
02:50Very loud, very boisterous.
02:52Always trying to be the center of attention and if he wasn't, he would make sure that he
02:57was.
02:58That's just who my dad was.
03:00I'm Joseph Michael Maluso and I am the son of superstar Billy Graham.
03:05My dad was always on, even when the camera wasn't on him.
03:09If you don't have a color television, go out and hawk your car and buy a color TV so you
03:14can see superstar Billy Graham in living, living color.
03:20In the late 1970s, superstar Billy Graham was on top of the world, redefining the look, the
03:28style and the idea of the perfect professional wrestler.
03:32Superstar Billy Graham was the world champion of the biggest wrestling company in the United States.
03:39The look is what made superstar Billy Graham.
03:42Nobody in that era, like nobody looked like him.
03:45I'm Dave Meltzer and I've been covering pro wrestling for just over 50 years.
03:49He had the bleach blonde hair and was legitimately very, very strong guy.
03:54He was very flamboyant.
03:56Whatever it is, superstar Billy Graham had it.
04:01He had all the charisma.
04:02He had the body.
04:04Most guys look like Chief J Strongbow.
04:07Little bit of a pot belly, little bit flabby arms, but Billy had a physique that was phenomenal.
04:15The body in wrestling wasn't crucial until Billy Graham.
04:19I'm Jim Cornette.
04:20I've had a 40-year career in professional wrestling, but for even longer than that, I've been an historian.
04:26He wasn't a polished in-ring performer, but he looked great and he could talk.
04:33This is the beauty of a champion. This is the brains of a champion.
04:36Look, look, look.
04:38Before making it big in New York, Billy Graham had first made a name for himself as a teenager growing up in Arizona.
04:45He was a competitive bodybuilder and 1961 was Teenage Mr. America.
04:51He was a born athlete and was self-made.
04:55When he was in his teens, he took to weightlifting and he would pour concrete into coffee cans.
05:03And that's how he would lift weights.
05:06I think that was just what made him feel good. It probably gave him some strength.
05:13When he was younger, his dad used to be very physical, abusive with him.
05:17And my dad would get hit with the belt.
05:20One day my dad was just big enough and grabbed the belt out of his father's hand.
05:26And that's when he knew the beatings were over and they were over.
05:29Because he showed, look, I'm bigger than you, now I'm stronger than you. You can't beat me anymore.
05:33Eager to put his physical attributes to work, Wayne Coleman travels from Arizona to Calgary,
05:40where a failed attempt at Canadian football stardom leads him to the legendary Stu Hart.
05:46Billy walks into the gym and meets Stu. Stu's just enamored by the size of this guy.
05:53He was just a specimen beyond description.
05:56My name is Steve Strong and I was a professional wrestler for 19 years.
06:03And superstar Billy Graham was one of my best friends.
06:07There's a carte blanche about the dungeon and Stu Hart that if you broke in with Stu Hart,
06:14you could pretty much stamp your past to whatever territory you wanted to go to.
06:18And Super worked up there for a while and left and started his career.
06:23Back in Arizona, a chance encounter with another wrestling legend sets Wayne Coleman on the path to greatness.
06:32We will be the international tag team champions as soon as that match comes off.
06:37And it's going to be the greatest match ever.
06:39The Graham family legacy in wrestling, it's one of the most famous in the history of the business.
06:43In the early 70s, Dr. Jerry Graham is broke and drunk and he thought maybe I need another brother.
06:50I just returned from Calgary and I said, I don't have anywhere really to wrestle now.
06:56And he said, but why don't you just become another Graham brother?
07:00What name do you want?
07:01I said, well, I really like the Reverend Billy Graham.
07:03He said, that's a good name.
07:04You're my youngest brother, Billy Graham.
07:07And superstar Billy Graham is born.
07:10They went to Los Angeles together and Jerry was just a hopeless drunk.
07:14Jerry lasted a couple of weeks and they fired him, but Billy had enough charisma that they kept him on.
07:19I am a reflection of perfection.
07:22The number one selection.
07:23You got it.
07:24At that time, Billy would train at Gold's Gym like every bodybuilder would.
07:29And he was Arnold Schwarzenegger's regular training partner.
07:32They were very close friends.
07:34I was born in June of 1972.
07:36And my father was a heel at the time.
07:39And some fans had vandalized my father's Cadillac.
07:42So he couldn't drive to pick my mother and I up from the hospital.
07:46So Arnold picked up my mom and my sister from the hospital in his blue Volkswagen Bug.
07:52Here's an Arnold picture.
07:53Here's a couple Arnold pictures.
07:54I'm not sure where that was, but...
07:56I think it was in our apartment on Ocean Avenue.
07:58Probably.
07:59I just found this recently.
08:02This is an original Western Union telegram that my mother had sent her parents the day that she married my father.
08:10Whoa.
08:11They went to Vegas.
08:12It's Jen.
08:13Andy Lopes.
08:14Yeah.
08:15January 19th, 1971.
08:16This is Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Maluso.
08:18That was my grandfather.
08:19Mom and Dad, Billy and I were just married.
08:22We really love each other.
08:23Please try and understand.
08:24I love you both.
08:28My mother was Madeline Maluso.
08:32She worked in a bank in Southern California and he came in and thought she was really pretty.
08:41She always loved his smile and he made her laugh a lot.
08:45She fell in love with him.
08:46She thought he was the most handsome man in the world.
08:49She got pregnant with me and they got an apartment in Santa Monica, California.
08:55She didn't care about the wrestling part of it at all.
08:59She just loved my dad.
09:02I remember Mom tie-dying clothes in our kitchen.
09:06She was a big part of his look.
09:08Mr. Rainbow, more colors in the rainbow.
09:11The prettiest wrestler in the world.
09:13Billy's Superstar Cream.
09:14Wow.
09:15The look was good and he understood his deal was posing and flexing and everything.
09:20But it was really the promos.
09:21And I'm going to take out my frustrations.
09:23I'm going to take out my wrath.
09:25I'm going to take out my anger.
09:27He'd been an evangelist in his younger years.
09:30He was a traveling tent show preacher.
09:34My dad started preaching as an evangelist when he was in his teens.
09:37He went all over Arizona in particular speaking at churches and did feats of strength.
09:42When I listen to his promos now, it's like he's standing in front of a church assembly.
09:47It's the same thing except it's wrestling.
09:50Superstar!
09:51You are the greatest!
09:52You are the strongest!
09:53You are the man in power!
09:55Billy Graham was probably one of the first to use various catchphrases that he would then start repeating.
10:02I'm the man in power!
10:03The man with the power!
10:04The man with the power!
10:05Too sweet to be sour!
10:07Too sweet to be sour!
10:08I mean, it's legendary stuff.
10:10They were unbelievable promos back then.
10:12These hands can crush coconuts.
10:14These hands can straighten out of horseshoes.
10:16You know what his arm can do?
10:18In 1975, Billy Graham's star is already on the rise when he gets a call from Vince McMahon Sr., New York's top promoter.
10:27He weighed in at 285 pounds, superstar Billy Graham!
10:34Billy was very, very excited about being at Madison Square Garden and being in the limelight.
10:40McMahon has a clear vision for the superstar with a bold plan for the future of the world championship.
10:47Bruno Sammartino is ready to step down as being the champion.
10:54He'd already had a nine-year run from 63 to 71, and then he was champion again in the mid-70s.
11:00Bruno was a living god to the wrestling fans.
11:03He was so admired and so idolized.
11:07Bruno was so embedded into the history of the sport and New York, but it was time for him to drop the strap.
11:15You know, when you've had it for so long and so long, there has to be a passing of the guard.
11:21Bob Backlund was Vince's guy.
11:23He wanted that squeaky clean guy who could go to schools and tell kids, don't do drugs, don't smoke.
11:28Bobby Backlund was my tag team partner before he went up there.
11:32He was a great athlete, but his promos were the drizzling shits.
11:37I've been raised on the farm, and climbing has been a part of my life.
11:42Bruno wanted to lose the belt to somebody huge, a big man.
11:47So, Billy Graham becomes the transitional champion.
11:51He will hold the belt for almost a year, and then he will lose it on such and such date so they can crown their new champion, the All-American Boy Bob Backlund.
12:01That's the deal.
12:02So, Billy knew the day he was winning it, he knew the day he was losing it, he was told.
12:06Two, three, I can't, it's over.
12:10But something happens.
12:11Graham wins the title.
12:13Even though he's a bad guy, people start cheering for him.
12:16Billy Graham became the hottest box office attraction in the business.
12:20He's selling out Madison Square Garden.
12:23The winner of the month, and still champion, Superstar.
12:28Every month, there's 25,000 people watching Billy Graham defend the title.
12:33But Vince Sr. always had a plan, and he was always regimented.
12:37He was sticking to it, no matter what.
12:39It was strictly, we want a babyface as the champion.
12:43And Billy was not going to be that babyface.
12:46And this is what led to Billy Graham's downfall.
13:05Superstar Billy Graham's reign as champion ushers in an era of good fortune for his family.
13:12We had a very nice house in New York.
13:14We had maids in New York.
13:16We had a three-story home in New York.
13:17We had a limo.
13:18We had a lot of money.
13:21I remember going in their bedroom, and I found his championship belt.
13:25I'm like, ooh, this is cool.
13:27And I took it out, and I laid it on the bed.
13:29I was shining his belt so the gold would sparkle and the little gems.
13:33And then I put it back so I didn't get in trouble.
13:36But for Billy's wife Madeline and their children, those good fortunes prove short-lived.
13:43I know he loved my mother, but there was something going on while he was married to my mother.
13:51I remember him talking to my mom when he told her that he wanted to divorce her.
13:57I was hiding behind the couch.
13:59She's crying.
14:01And I'm looking at my dad, and he's breaking my mother's heart right now saying, I'm in love with Valerie.
14:06When I was 18 years old, I met him at an IHOP.
14:11It was right next to the hotel where he was staying.
14:15And I would go and sit at the IHOP just to get a glimpse of him.
14:19And that particular night, they came in and sat down at the table next to us and just started talking.
14:24Hi, I'm Valerie Coleman, and I was married to superstar Billy Graham for just short of 45 years.
14:32Basically, from the time we met, we were together all the time.
14:36Yeah, it sucked, but it was just really sad watching my parents break up right in front of me.
14:45It was probably almost a year before he told me about his family.
14:53It was devastating.
14:56I didn't know what to do.
14:58I was very conflicted, but ultimately, I didn't leave him.
15:03And we were married a couple of months later.
15:09With a new wife and a new life, superstar Billy Graham feels on top of the world.
15:15I had a universal appeal.
15:17I crossed all lines, I crossed all borders, and I had all types of fans.
15:23And I told him, I said, we're going to have a sellout after sellout after sellout.
15:28But even as superstar pushes himself to deliver, the demands of being champion wreak havoc on his body.
15:35He'd always have pills around, and so when he would call us, it's clear in his voice that he was definitely on something.
15:43I mean, he was in pain, you know, and when you're in pain, you want to take medicine.
15:49And unfortunately, he had that type of personality that he just abused it.
15:54He just didn't know how to control it.
15:55He overdosed in his hotel room in New York several times while he was champion.
16:01It was all pharmaceuticals, uppers, downers, trying to get through the pain and just live with it.
16:08He had an overdose in the hotel room.
16:10He had gone into the bathroom and taken a handful of pills and came out.
16:14And all of a sudden, his body rolls over, and he's not breathing at all.
16:20I have a call downstairs, and I'm begging for them to come help.
16:25And this woman comes up, and she starts pounding and beating his chest and screaming,
16:30don't die on me.
16:31And she's cussing him out, don't you die on me.
16:33And she's beating him.
16:34Paramedics get there, and they're trying to use the defibrillators and things on him.
16:39His heart had stopped.
16:41They, you know, shocked him back.
16:44So, yeah, that was a pretty intense time.
16:47There's pandemonium tonight.
16:51There's excitement.
16:52Look at the people's faces.
16:54Look at the people's expressions.
16:56Can you feel it?
16:57Look at you.
16:58You're excited.
16:59Because I am the champion.
17:01After almost a year as champion, Billy Graham is set to lose the belt to Bob Backlund,
17:06following the plan originally laid out by Vince McMahon Sr.
17:10His run was the hottest it ever was.
17:12But I think in his mind, it's like, I'm going to prove them wrong.
17:16I'm going to draw so big that they can't take the title from me.
17:20Graham went to Vince Sr.
17:21He's like, how can you do it?
17:22We're selling out.
17:23We're turning them away.
17:25The New York promoters had always put their heavyweight championship on a hero.
17:30And Vince Sr. was looking for his next champion, who was going to be Bob Backlund.
17:35He had planned this for a year and a half, and nothing was going to change his mind.
17:39Ask Bobby Backlund when you see him, how he expects to get out of the Superstar Berg.
17:45Ask him, right?
17:46Right before he goes out, before the match, he was trying to get them to change their mind.
17:49And they're like, no, we're going with Bob Backlund.
17:51Bob Backlund.
17:52Bob Backlund.
17:53I hate that guy.
17:54He was the biggest box office attraction in the business.
18:18And it was taken away from him.
18:19He couldn't understand why.
18:21All the struggles, all the pain, working his way up from nothing to being champion of the
18:28world, then all of a sudden lose it.
18:30In his mind, he's like, what was the point?
18:33Did I do something wrong?
18:34These guys obviously don't know greatness when they see it.
18:37So it hit him very hard.
18:39That's all that there is in this world, is the championship belt, the greatest wrestler
18:44on the world.
18:45Bob Backlund was very, very, his entire life, a very insecure person.
18:50It's kind of hard to believe when you would look at him, with the physique and everything.
18:54But he was very insecure, so he just never could believe that he was really worth anything.
19:00He was beaten down so much growing up.
19:03Not just the physical, but also the verbal abuse and being told that you're worthless,
19:07you're no good, you'll never be anything, you're ugly.
19:09And he took it.
19:11He received that.
19:12He accepted that.
19:13You know, and he believed it.
19:15His entire life it stayed with him.
19:17Being on top, being the champion, carrying that belt meant so much to him.
19:23And when he lost that title, it certainly changed everything from that day forward.
19:29It just flat out was devastating to him.
19:33It destroyed his ego.
19:38One day he had started a big bonfire.
19:41Burned all of his wrestling gear, boots, his jackets, his robes, his attire.
19:48You know, he just, he burned everything.
20:07For Billy Graham, losing the championship was more than just a storyline.
20:11It was a blow to his self-worth and his confidence.
20:15It was everything to Billy.
20:16It was his life.
20:17It was bigger than I could even understand.
20:20Some guys can't take it.
20:22He wasn't mentally capable of seeing the light in other places.
20:27Hi, I'm Steve Kernan.
20:28I've been in professional wrestling over 40 years.
20:31And I've shared a locker room with superstar Billy Graham.
20:34He saw the big money was New York.
20:36He was the man.
20:37He had the belt.
20:38Now he's beltless.
20:40You didn't win that belt.
20:41Somebody told you that you're going to get that belt.
20:43It's not real the part about you're a champion or you're not a champion.
20:48It's not real.
20:49Like a year later, Billy's running a lawn care business or something in Arizona.
20:54You know, wrestling on Friday nights.
20:56I mean, it's out of it so much that people thought he died.
21:00It's in the paper.
21:01He's dead.
21:02Gorilla Monsoon wrote that his tragic news, Billy Graham has died from cancer.
21:07And for a couple of years there, I mean, he was right that superstar Billy Graham was dead.
21:13When he lost the belt, that was the beginning of his decline.
21:18And a lot of it was mental.
21:20We went back to Phoenix and he didn't know about withdrawals.
21:25And he just cold turkey stopped taking pills on our road trip.
21:29And we were in this ran down little hotel in New Mexico.
21:33And he had a grand mal seizure.
21:35And I called paramedics and they thought he tried to kill himself.
21:39So he didn't try to kill himself, he was actually trying to live.
21:42And instead of going home, he went into a rehab.
21:46But it didn't work.
21:48It didn't last.
21:50I was so afraid of him dying.
21:53And I, you know, was naive enough to think I could love him back from whatever brink he was on.
22:02Broke and frustrated by his stagnant career, Graham seeks to reinvent himself
22:07and get back into the business that made him famous.
22:10He was so crestfallen that he wanted to reinvent himself
22:15and do it in a vindictive style that would say,
22:19screw you if you didn't want that original superstar.
22:22I'm going to give you something else.
22:25He comes back to the WWF, bald head, much smaller,
22:29looked like a completely different guy.
22:31And he claimed that he had left wrestling and he'd become the world's martial arts champion.
22:35When I give him the superstar chop, the people will fall out of their seats.
22:39Will fall out of their seats.
22:40Drop them.
22:42I watched him one of the very first times, I think.
22:46And I said, what the is he doing?
22:49This isn't the superstar I remember.
22:52Superstar Billy Graham.
22:55He would just do karate chops, he'd have a black belt.
22:59Just like kind of stood there, was pretty immobile.
23:01It was like really lame and his wrestling wasn't good at all at that point.
23:05He was covering up his body all of a sudden, like with his judo jacket on, you know.
23:10And he looked kind of hokey, kind of like a guy that fell out of a third grade judo class.
23:17So bad.
23:18And he just looked so defeated.
23:20He just was not the same person.
23:23It was something he did out of being desperate to get back into the limelight.
23:29Superstar in big trouble.
23:31Unfortunately, Billy's body started giving out.
23:34He started getting hip injuries.
23:36That was a sad time.
23:38I look at him when he was like that and it just makes me so sad because he was so thin.
23:45He was so high on pills.
23:47And he did not know who he was.
23:50Everything has been said.
23:51Everything has been done.
23:53All the preparation.
23:54Everything is ready.
23:56He just looks so sick to me.
23:57It's hard for me to look at him during that time.
24:00It really is.
24:01I don't like it.
24:02That's one of the darkest times of my life.
24:05Wayne started using pain pills and sleeping pills again.
24:08That's when he became emaciated.
24:10I mean, he looked like he was dying.
24:12It was a horrible time.
24:15I mean, McMahon had aspirations to push him to the moon.
24:18But Billy lost his mojo.
24:20It was gone.
24:21Look at this!
24:22Look at the chop!
24:23Less than a year into his return, Billy Graham leaves the WWF for a second time.
24:29Who knows what the plans were for him?
24:31Because before too long, Uncle Mania is running wild.
24:35Hulk Hogan, he drops a big leg on him!
24:37He's now for the cover of the leg!
24:39One, two, he's got it!
24:41The way the business was growing, McMahon kind of transitioned into making Hogan his ideal version of Superstar Billy Graham and embellishing that character and creating someone that maybe he felt like he didn't do enough of for Billy Graham.
24:57The pythons are ready! The largest arms in the world!
25:00Superstar Billy Graham will put the 22-inch python arms around your body and squeeze!
25:05The promo skills, the posing, all of that stuff, it came from Billy Graham.
25:12Hulk Hogan, he was wearing boas and things like that.
25:16I wanna know one thing, brother!
25:18Superstar started Brother Brother!
25:20Hey, brother! Hey, brother! How you doing, brother?
25:22I got the Hulk Hogan war bonnet on now, brother!
25:25Literally, though, everything from, you know, the ear of Wayne ripping the shirt off and throwing it out to the crowd.
25:31You name it, he did it. Look at the videos. There's Wayne doing it.
25:34You're gonna see a lot of number one contenders come and go, brother!
25:37But there's only one Hulkster! There's only one Hulk Hogan, daddy!
25:40My dad, deep down, knew that Hulk was younger and more relevant at the time and was probably a little jealous.
25:49Vince had said that if the Billy Graham of 1974 was around in 1984, he could have been Hulk Hogan.
25:58Unbelievable!
25:59The former World Wrestling Federation heavyweight champ, now working out every day and training with a vision.
26:13A vision of being back in the squared circle.
26:16Superstar Billy Graham is on top of his game and the future's mine! The Pythons are back!
26:21In 1987, following his first failed attempt to reinvent himself, Billy Graham once again attempts a comeback.
26:28Billy's not the same. The fans aren't the same. And Billy was more considered an old-timer by 86 and 87.
26:38He tore his body up. He had his ankle fused. They had a steel rod that went from the bottom of his heel through his leg.
26:48My right leg is now approximately one inch shorter than my left leg. The whole ankle joint had deteriorated from taking a lot of steroids on a long-term basis.
26:57His spine was collapsing. It was an absolute mess.
27:01It was that steroids had eaten him up. Billy was pumping a lot of steroids in his body still.
27:08He'd always been on steroids. He was one of the original users of steroids in wrestling.
27:13To him, it was normal. He didn't care, you know, what anybody thought of him.
27:16Because he still, first of all, he knew he had to do the work.
27:19Anybody can take steroids, but not anybody's going to have a physique.
27:22I started in the mid-60s. A friend of mine at Arizona State University at the time, he kind of introduced me and some of my friends to steroids.
27:31And then we put on like 35, 40 pounds of muscle. We couldn't believe our eyes.
27:35And I started taking steroids then for powerlifting and bodybuilding purposes.
27:40He had a big ego. And he took roids to look good, just like Arnold Schwarzenegger did.
27:47All the bodybuilders of the 60s and 70s.
27:50Anybody in my industry in the 70s and 80s, they were playing with steroids because they saw the effect on promoters when they had a better body.
28:01He was really struggling mentally with it.
28:04I think he wanted to be who he was back in the 70s, and it wasn't going to happen.
28:10He would get in these moods, but he could get really incredibly rageful.
28:15He never was physically abusive to me, but he would destroy the house, and he could be very intimidating.
28:23So if he wanted a shot in his hip, you know, I would have to give him the shot, but I would stab him.
28:30That was just my only thing I could do. I would use it like a dagger or a dart and do it as hard as I could.
28:37The mental anguish that he was going through, I'm sure, was amplified also by the physical pain of his body and the fact that he wasn't in the ring.
28:47He wasn't wrestling, which is what he wanted to do.
28:51Even as he got older, he always talked about how he lost that belt and that he shouldn't have lost it that soon.
28:58I'm like, well, dad, that's the way that it was supposed to happen.
29:01But I think that once he lost that, that was his downfall.
29:08Billy never, ever, ever, ever, ever forgave Vince McMahon Sr. for having him drop the belt to Bob Backlund.
29:17When this segwayed into the early 90s, I think Billy was just going, how can I hurt Vince McMahon?
29:23To be successful in pro wrestling is an absolute must to take steroids.
29:29From 1985 to 1991, McMahon and a doctor conspired to distribute steroids to the wrestlers to enhance their size and muscle development.
29:40Dr. Zavorian was the wrestling commission doctor, but then he became close to some of the wrestlers and he became their drug supplier of prescription drugs.
29:49He sent through the mail thousands upon thousands of pills just to my husband alone.
29:56He made a ton of money, got very, very rich off of their suffering and their addiction.
30:01Billy testified for the prosecution.
30:05Here was, you know, the former world champion on the witness stand talking about his life and history with anabolic steroids.
30:14But he didn't go after Vince, he didn't go after Hogan then.
30:16And then Hogan goes on Arsenio Hall.
30:19I saw a guy on a program named Billy Graham. What's up with him?
30:24Well, superstar Billy Graham apparently in the 70s was one of the top wrestlers.
30:29Hulk says something to the effect, oh, he's just like some old time, like, that he was nobody, that he was a nobody.
30:35That's when things started changing with Wayne about the way that he felt about Terry, about Hulk.
30:41And he apparently was a heavy duty steroid abuser.
30:45Graham was furious at Hogan for using his name like that because Hogan was doing the same steroids.
30:52So Billy was really mad. And so at that point he went and said that Hogan did steroids. I know he did steroids. Of course he did steroids.
30:58Well, I remember the first night I met Hulk Hogan. It was at a local nightclub in Tampa. And one night in walks the future Hulk Hogan, Terry Bollet. He said, I want to know two things. How do I become a professional wrestler? And how do I take steroids?
31:14And Billy had the bitterness against Vince, too. That's how it really manifested. And because of that, we end up on the Phil Donahue show.
31:23Superstar Billy Graham, I'll tell you what, he's won his share.
31:27It's Billy, it's Bruno, it's myself, it's Meltzer. And then we found out that McMahon was in fact going to be there.
31:34They want to do a story on steroid use in wrestling.
31:37The tension you could cut with a knife and Billy wanted to unload.
31:41The selling of drugs by Dr. George Zahorian that's gone on for 15 years in the World Wrestling Federation.
31:46Billy said, I shot Hogan up with steroids.
31:49I've injected the man myself probably a half a dozen times.
31:52And Vince just goes, you're lying, you never shot Hogan up with steroids.
31:55When Vince looks at him and he says, this is a superstar, you know that's not true.
31:59I literally started to cry in the audience. I knew when Wayne was lying.
32:06I think he had an enormous amount of guilt over it after it was all said and done.
32:11He's human. He's just a human being. He's just a man. And he was bitter. And he was hurt.
32:17I mean, when you've been physical since you were 10 years old, and all of a sudden he's crippled.
32:22And then there's this awful, awful bitterness towards certain people. And Vince happened to be one of them.
32:29I'm
32:31Dr. George ZahESE
32:34Struggling with addiction and financial ruin.
32:38Billy's relationship with his children unravels.
32:41There is a difference between a dad and a father.
32:43A father is somebody who in every aspect is always there for the children.
32:49And my father was a dad because he got my mother pregnant with me.
32:54Y eso es como es, realmente.
32:58Me encanta decirte esto, pero mi padre nunca pagó child support, ever.
33:03Así que mi madre regresó a trabajar en la banca.
33:06Mi madre estaba trabajando mucho, haciendo dos o tres trabajos,
33:10pero ella me parecía que me y mi sister ate.
33:13Ella siempre fue verbal sobre cómo heredera ella,
33:17pero ella lovedía hasta el día que ella murió.
33:20I mean, my mother never remarried.
33:25He moved on, he married Valerie, home love.
33:29We were part of his past life, and he never helped us.
33:33There was never a father figure in my life.
33:36I never respected the guy as a kid, I never respected him as I got older.
33:40He made me very angry about how he treated myself and my sister and my mom.
33:45He made me very angry.
33:47I mean, it was heartbreaking.
33:49You know, because I look at him and I love him.
33:51You know, and I just wanted him to want to be with us.
33:55And he didn't want it.
33:57He just didn't want it.
34:01Joey knew that my dad, I think, loved me more than him.
34:06My brother was born sick.
34:08He was born with a hole in his heart.
34:10So I think because my brother wasn't perfect,
34:12my dad kind of pushed him aside a little bit.
34:16He would forget my brother's birthday all the time because my dad didn't really care about him.
34:24When I was 18, I changed my name from Joseph Cole Coleman to Joseph Michael Meluso
34:29because Meluso was my mom's maiden name.
34:32I decided I was moving on from who my dad was in my life.
34:38And I was hoping it hurt him when I did it.
34:40That destroyed him.
34:42It broke his heart completely.
34:46He hurt me my entire life.
34:48My maiden upside are mad at me.
34:50Tough shit.
34:51I don't care.
34:51He loved those kids so much.
34:56He didn't know how to be the dad that he wanted to be.
35:00He never had a role model.
35:03Unfortunately, so much of his life was defined by his dad.
35:08I'm very happy that he found Valerie and they were in love for so long
35:11because they truly were meant to be together.
35:13I don't like the fact that he treated us as if we weren't there anymore.
35:19I just knew that my dad was full of shit, but I accepted because I loved him.
35:26But my father was not invited to my wedding, so my brother gave me away.
35:33I was lonely.
35:35I was depressed.
35:37And I'm telling you, I felt every emotion that you brothers have felt in your life.
35:42Alienated from his children and the world of wrestling,
35:46Wayne Coleman returns to his roots as a preacher.
35:49He didn't have anything else.
35:51And he knew he was good at ministry, so he went back to that.
35:56I think as he got older, he went full-blown with the church
36:00and maybe to make amends to God for the sins that he committed in his life.
36:07He truly believed, and I believe it as well,
36:11that his true calling was for ministry.
36:15Wayne wrote the play called The Empty Ring.
36:19It was Wayne's life story, and it was a wrestling ring,
36:22but it was empty for him.
36:24There was no fulfillment.
36:25And Jake the Snake played Wayne's part.
36:28I wanted my daddy to look me in the eye and say,
36:30son, I'm proud of you.
36:34He couldn't do it.
36:35One scene was a hotel room, and he overdoses in the scene.
36:39And it shows him, like, taking the bottle of pills, and it's very dark.
36:43And there's a lot of demons all around Jake.
36:45They're swirling, like, trying to get him.
36:47But ultimately, it's a redemption story.
36:50And it was so emotional for me to watch that because it was so real, you know,
36:55and it was his life, and it's what we lived.
36:57You could see, like, this peace and this joy inside of him.
37:01But even as Graham finds peace,
37:03the damage to his body from years of wrestling and drug abuse
37:07continue to take their toll.
37:09He had contracted hepatitis from, I think, a cut on his knee from wrestling,
37:15is what he told me.
37:17The common belief of the doctors is that I probably contracted hepatitis C
37:24from a cold mingling of blood because that's the only way you get it.
37:28And, of course, you know, back in the 70s,
37:30all the masses were pretty much blood mass back then.
37:34His liver was, like, turned to a rock.
37:36Like, just the years of abuse on his body and all the drugs he was doing.
37:41One night, we're laying in bed, and he coughed.
37:44And I felt something wet hit me in the face.
37:49And I jump up and turn on the light, and I'm covered in blood.
37:53And he was bleeding out.
37:56We got to the hospital, and they said there was nothing they could do for him.
38:01That's when they told us, he's got stage 4 liver disease.
38:04He has to have a transplant.
38:06He was getting sicker and sicker and sicker.
38:10And he's like, Capella, I've only got, like, 6 weeks max.
38:15Ravaged by hepatitis C, superstar Billy Graham faces a fight for survival,
38:27requiring a liver transplant just to stay alive.
38:31Knowing that he might not wake up, he called Vince.
38:35And he just asked him again to forgive him, and he told him that he loved him.
38:38And he thanked him for everything he'd ever done for him.
38:41But that tells you his heart.
38:43What was on his mind were the people that he had hurt.
38:46You know, people, things he hadn't forgiven himself for.
38:51Vince was gracious enough, and he was very kind, thankfully.
38:54Because he didn't have to be even then, but he was.
38:57This poor girl had died and donated all her organs that could be donated.
39:04Thank God for that, because I really thought he was going to, that was it.
39:07That was it for him.
39:09And then, short while after that, I told him,
39:12I'm never going to forget all the things that happened in the past
39:16between you and mom and me and Joey.
39:19But I'm an adult now, I'm pregnant, you're going to be a grandfather,
39:23and I can forgive.
39:27I was given 21 more years with him.
39:30You know, God, for whatever reason, he had his hand on Wayne's life.
39:33And he never let go, and he never gave up on him.
39:36He was a walking miracle.
39:41In January 2023, after two decades of battling liver and heart issues,
39:47Graham is hospitalized once more.
39:49All the times he got sick, I'm like, my dad's always bounced back.
39:54I'm not worried about it.
39:55And me and my sister talked for about six months before.
39:58She's like, do you think we should go see him?
40:00And I'm like, he's fine.
40:02He's fine.
40:03He always gets sick.
40:04He always gets better.
40:06I was still conflicted if I was going to go or not.
40:10I just, I had had enough.
40:12You know, if he dies, he dies.
40:13Okay, God's going to take him.
40:15And that's just what happens to us.
40:16We live, we die.
40:17And, you know, as much as he had disappointed me for most of my life, I wanted to make him happy at the end.
40:26For a while, I was like, why the hell should I go see him?
40:30Why should I have to put myself out to go see my father in Arizona when he never did anything for me?
40:36I mean, what am I supposed to do?
40:37And then I saw some pictures that Valerie posted.
40:43And that's when I saw my dad as my dad.
40:47He wasn't superstar anymore.
40:49He is going to die.
40:51So that's when I went to go see him.
40:54He started actually telling me some stories about my mom.
40:58And it sounded like he was very, very remorseful about how he treated her.
41:07How he wished he could have been a better person.
41:09And when I heard that, I knew he was dying.
41:12And I looked at him and his body was, he was just, I hate to say it, but he was so small.
41:20He had no muscle anymore.
41:22And I looked at my dad, I'm like, oh my God, this is not superstar Billy Graham anymore.
41:30My brother had flown out there before I did.
41:34So I bought a ticket and I flew out there by myself.
41:38I played him, Bob Dylan, and that meant a lot to him.
41:42I put that music on and he closed his eyes and he put his head back.
41:45And he got this little faint smile, his best smile that he could give at the time.
41:50And he just was so happy to be listening to Dylan.
41:53And it made me happy that I could do that for him.
41:56You know, and the next day, Valerie and I are talking to the doctors and we're like, you
42:01know what, Valerie, it was like, it's time.
42:05My sister was with him at the hospital and I was home and I could hear my dad on the phone.
42:11I told him, I said, dad, you know, we've had our problems in life.
42:15We've had a lot of issues with each other.
42:16I've hated you for a very long time.
42:18But I always understood you were my dad and I always have loved you.
42:23So I just want you to know that.
42:25I've always loved you.
42:27And the last words he told me, I could hear him.
42:41Trying to get the words out.
42:44He just said, I love you.
42:45And that's the last thing.
42:49That's the last thing I heard from my dad.
42:54That was it.
42:56And I wasn't a superstar.
42:58It was my dad.
42:59He's been gone for 17 months, but there's no relief.
43:07There's not, I just miss him.
43:09I can't even describe it, so.
43:13He was appreciated.
43:14He was loved.
43:15He was admired.
43:16He was respected.
43:18He is superstar Billy Graham!
43:23He's missed.
43:25You know, he's missed by so many that he would never have imagined missed him.
43:28But he is.
43:30It's a tragic story because of somebody who had it all and who lost it all.
43:35I am happy that he had God in his life.
43:37I'm not happy about all the other things, but I am happy that he is my dad.
43:41I understand where he was coming from more now.
43:43And the job he had and the life that he was trying to have.
43:46And who he wanted to be.
43:47He was superstar Billy Graham.
43:58I am happy about all the other things, but I am happy about all the other things, but not them.
44:03I don't think that he has.
44:07Do you believe me?
44:08Can I believe you?
44:08I am happy that he has a son and said,
44:11I guess he had a son and said it are today.
44:12Be able to succeed.
44:14I'm happy that he had a son.
44:19Cut it out!
44:20I hope this is a little bit not in school, but he got married !
44:23I'm probably thinking of him.
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