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00:30She left her mark on the wrestling world.
00:32She made it cool for people who didn't feel like they fit in to find someone else who didn't quite fit in.
00:39She was the pioneer for alternative women in wrestling.
00:44Whatever was going to get the story over, the character over, she was all for it.
00:49Beloved by her fans, beloved by her peers, one of the most positive people I have ever met in my entire life.
00:59But sometimes the happiest people around you are the ones that are hurting the most.
01:04Off camera, Shannon was fighting a battle no one else could see.
01:08She knew how to play that character well because it also showed her suffering.
01:13Most of her adult life, she fought bipolar disorder. That is a fight.
01:20She was either killing it or she had no ability to do anything.
01:24You never know which Shannon you were going to get.
01:26Enduring endless obstacles.
01:28Oh my god, no, no!
01:30And the business she loved.
01:31Oh my god, no, no!
01:33That head injury was bigger than maybe even she knew.
01:37They weren't taking care of her medical bills.
01:40She was in such pain all the time.
01:42There was a light that went out on her.
01:45I've looked in those eyes since she was born.
01:47There was just something that wasn't the same.
01:50I did not know how bad it had gotten.
01:53Shannon was the best person.
01:56I want people to remember her for the person that she was, not for the person that she ended up on that day.
02:02I always wanted to be an actress.
02:12My agent called me up and asked me if I wanted to audition for a little four-week reoccurring character for WCW.
02:19Stalking David Flair.
02:24Hi, I'm Daphne Unger, and I'm from Peoria, Illinois, and I love all the superstars at WCW.
02:33That was it.
02:34That started the whole thing right there.
02:36David Flair, he was wrestling Diamond Dallas Page.
02:39He was getting his butt kicked, and Daphne comes running out.
02:44Who in the world?
02:45Who has come out of here?
02:46Whoa!
02:47I feel like people just have to kind of act crazy.
02:50And that's really all the information I got.
02:53It was just going to be a one, two-time gig, and she really blew it out of the park.
02:58And next thing you know, she's on TV on time.
03:02My name is Darren Spruill.
03:04Shannon is my sister.
03:05You may know her as Daphne.
03:07They liked how I performed the character, so it was really kind of up to me.
03:13There's no doubt.
03:14Look at her.
03:15She's loving it.
03:16At that time, all of the women that you saw in mainstream wrestling had that Barbie doll build.
03:23She was something new, something totally different that stood out.
03:28Ooh!
03:29The cool, crazy, goth girl.
03:32No!
03:33And the fans ate it up.
03:34They loved it.
03:35My name is Chris Ford, and wrestling fans know me as Crowbar.
03:41They came up with this idea that we were going to have a tag team.
03:44Tag team now by Flair.
03:46Oh, no.
03:47We got along great.
03:48We just automatically clicked.
03:50I think crazy characters are fun.
03:53I was crazy.
03:54David was crazy.
03:55Daphne was crazy.
03:56She did a screamed bloody murder at the top of her lungs.
04:02That's ear piercing.
04:05Oh, my gosh.
04:06The scream.
04:07The scream.
04:08She had the scream forever.
04:09Sometimes she'd just come into the room and...
04:11Ah!
04:13My mom screamed, what are you doing, Darren?
04:15I didn't touch her.
04:16I didn't lay a hand on her.
04:17You know?
04:18And she wouldn't let me get in trouble real bad for her, because we were each other's best
04:22friends, you know?
04:23We didn't know anybody else.
04:24We're military brats, and with the military you're moving around a lot.
04:28You don't know anyone but your mom and dad and your sister.
04:32So, you just become very, very close.
04:35Almost where you can read each other's thoughts sometimes.
04:38We always did things together.
04:40We did a lot of theater.
04:42She played soccer.
04:43She broke all of her fingers playing goalkeeper, diving into people's feet.
04:47So, Sham wasn't scared of anything.
04:50She was quite an athlete.
04:52She could sing.
04:53She could dance.
04:54She could act.
04:56And she was a straight-A student.
04:59And she was beautiful.
05:00She had it all.
05:02My name is Quentin Sproul, and I'm proud to say I'm Shannon's father.
05:07She was in three major movies before she was ten.
05:11My parents gave me a doll where she says,
05:13whole sentence is on a cassette.
05:15That was the first clue.
05:17When I saw her on the big screen, I was like,
05:18hmm, yeah, she may try to go on and do other things.
05:21Once she was bitten by the wrestling bug, that was it.
05:24She was in it.
05:25If she had it in her head that she's doing this, she's doing it.
05:30Whoa!
05:31That a girl.
05:32I got money like that.
05:34I wasn't real pleased about the matter, but we went with it.
05:38Daphne was up for anything, and I think that's what made it work so well.
05:42She had a gymnastics background, which is how we got into teaching her spots.
05:48Oh!
05:49DDT from Daphne.
05:51We showed her safe ways to do moves that look athletic, look violent, look cool, but are very safe if done right.
05:59Which is how the Franken-Screamer was born.
06:02Here we go!
06:04Daphne!
06:05That's her Franken-Screamer off the top!
06:08She didn't want to look like the technical wrestler.
06:10She wanted to make it look like she was the crazy girl who just happened to be wrestling.
06:14I'm Lexi Fife, and I've been in professional wrestling for 30 years, and Shannon, AKA Daphne, was my best friend.
06:23Shannon had that magnetism that made you want to watch her.
06:28Oh, that's, oh, Franken-Screamer!
06:31And she got noticed, and so they started letting her do more and more.
06:34There is your new cruiserweight champion of the world!
06:38This is the best thing ever, because this is the mix of the two things that I love the most in my life.
06:45It's athleticism, and it's acting.
06:48Get your ex-hooter girl butt out here right now!
06:53It just kind of rolled for her, you know, she was the Ferris Bueller of the women, you know, it just always worked out for her.
06:59She belonged in the spotlight, she was drawn to be in the spotlight, and she was just enjoying the ride.
07:06Oh, man!
07:08But we all knew, at some level, that that ride could come to an end at any time.
07:16As Shannon's star rises, WCW crashes, and in 2001, the competition swoops in and shuts it down.
07:26WCW folded, and I went through this period of just extreme depression.
07:32And then, of course, you think, well, it's because, you know, you don't have your job anymore.
07:37She knew she wanted to stay in professional wrestling. She was talking to WWE and trying to, you know, potentially get a contract back with them.
07:46So here's me, working my ass off, going to WWE, trying out, give me a job.
07:53She had a developmental deal, but never made it to the TV.
07:58My developmental with the WWE was nine months. So then I got let go. And I was just like wrestling.
08:05When she did lose her contract, she and her husband at the time were going through a divorce.
08:10She was going to have to move. It was a whole bunch of crap at once.
08:15She was trying some antidepressants, but they weren't working. It threw her into a spiral.
08:21I went over three months where I didn't sleep more than an hour a night.
08:30And then I developed a stutter, and now I'm talking really, really fast.
08:33I finally reached out to my daddy. He's my rock. And I was like, Daddy, something's wrong. I don't know what's happening.
08:41Sometimes you would just think it would be a lot easier if I didn't have to put up with all of this.
08:47That's not Shannon. That was your first indication.
08:52There would be moments where everything was great. And then there was other moments where she just had the confidence of a mouse.
09:01So Shannon was diagnosed as bipolar.
09:0590% of the time that I was signed by the WWE and I was in training, I was bipolar as and I was on no beds.
09:13Bipolar disorder is an instability of moods. You'll be really, really depressed.
09:19And then all of a sudden there'll be a switch in your brain and you're manic.
09:23Your brain tricks you because your chemicals are so messed up, which I'm also very familiar with.
09:29She had bipolar disorder and I do too.
09:32My name is Amanda Rodriguez and I was a best friend of Daphne.
09:37Mania, it can be really scary and really confusing.
09:42You're like in the back seat and your body is the car and someone else is driving it and you don't recognize yourself.
09:49I just remember driving and just going, oh my God, I'm crazy. Oh my God, I'm crazy.
09:54It's terrifying.
09:55There are drugs that you can take. The problem is they have horrible, horrible side effects.
10:03Throwing up and headaches and all kinds of stuff like that.
10:08There were times when she wouldn't take it consistently, so she wasn't seeing the benefits of the medicines that she had.
10:15She didn't want to be on medicine. She wanted another way for it to be handled.
10:20If you don't take care of it with professional support or medication, it could turn into depressive mania where I believe the risk of suicide comes in.
10:32One time she was in a very manic mood and my dad called me on the phone.
10:37I was like, she's got to get to the hospital. She's going to do something.
10:40So I said, Shan, you got to go to the doctor because I can't take care of you.
10:43There's nothing I can do to help you.
10:45There was times on the way that she was threatening to get out of the car and just run.
10:52But we got her there safely and checked her in and she was there for a couple of weeks.
11:00That's not something you want to do with your sister.
11:04I hate that people in my life. You're just powerless.
11:08Watching this person struggle with this thing and you're just like, what do you do?
11:13You need to make sure that your children know that they're loved, no matter what.
11:19We prayed through and talked through so many things.
11:25She decided that she wanted to be in the ring and couldn't talk her out of it.
11:32Following her diagnosis with bipolar disorder, in 2003, Shannon sets out on the indie circuit to rebuild her career and herself.
11:50If she still thought she could do something, she still wanted to do it. That was a chance. That was it.
11:56We thought she was doing better. We thought she had some success and she was in better control with the medicines and day-to-day life kind of stuff.
12:05It was an opportunity for her. She wasn't at home twiddling her thumbs. She was getting to do stuff.
12:11Independent wrestling is a totally different lifestyle than TV wrestling.
12:17You're going from town to town to town. And that's when I met her. And she was just like, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.
12:23All she thought about was wrestling.
12:29It doesn't matter if there was five people in the audience or 50,000. She went out there and gave the same exact performance.
12:38And Daphne with the sunset flip out of the corner.
12:40That just completely encompasses who she was as a person and as a professional wrestler.
12:46My name is Chantel, but you may know me as Taylor Wilde. And Daphne is one of my professional wrestling sisters.
12:55I met Daphne at Shimmer in 2005. Shimmer was the first time in any real American promotion that women were solely highlighted.
13:06And it actually kind of changed the trajectory of where women's wrestling was headed.
13:11She really wanted all the girls to band together because she knew it was going to be big.
13:16Shimmer was a great place for all of us. And Daphne had a really, really good time there.
13:26We were a family there, and she felt it was a safe place.
13:33As wrestling has grown, there's more opportunities for women.
13:40And the women that are involved, they build each other up.
13:45And I really think Daphne had a huge part in that.
13:50By the time that we got together, she was full force, gung-ho.
13:54She loved professional wrestling more than anything else in the world.
13:58My name is Caleb Conley. I've been a professional wrestler for 20 years now.
14:02And for four of those years, I dated Shannon Sproul, known to the wrestling world as Daphne.
14:06I was 20 years old. I was two years into the wrestling business.
14:13And she came, and she had a couple matches, and we started talking, and then just blossomed right from there.
14:20We worked on tons of shows together. We tagged a couple times. We wrestled each other.
14:27She opened up a lot of doors for me. She introduced me to a lot of people that I would have probably never met on my own otherwise.
14:34Even if she wasn't in professional wrestling, Shannon was so cool. She was just amazing.
14:39But the bipolar thing was front and center our entire relationship.
14:47I could wake up in the morning, and I could just feel the energy change.
14:52Sometimes she just couldn't get out of bed.
14:54And then at other points, she would be doing the elliptical for two hours a day.
14:58And then all of a sudden, she's like, I have to get off this medicine because it's making me gain weight.
15:03She lost weight, but now she's also completely depressed and hates life.
15:09She was very quick to lose her temper in those times.
15:13But when her moods started to swing, I felt like she needed someone there that she could trust.
15:20But it's hard to stay positive.
15:22I was a dumb kid who thought he knew what he was doing. I didn't.
15:26I realized that we are just two people that had a moment in time together, and I loved her and she loved me.
15:35And we always had a pretty positive friendship after the fact.
15:40I think Shannon's bipolar disorder was very disruptive for her personal life.
15:47But it didn't affect her work.
15:50She could still get out there and ring and do what she needed to do.
15:52Shannon's grit, charisma, and screen presence earn her another shot back on television, this time with TNA.
16:02WWE wasn't taking the women seriously at this point, and TNA decided they would.
16:08And they had bangers.
16:10It wasn't broad panties matches. It was real professional wrestling.
16:15Shannon didn't get brought in as a wrestler at first, and she didn't even get brought in as Daphne at first.
16:19They indoctrinated Daphne back into TNA wrestling as a parody of Sarah Palin, and they called her the governor.
16:28Our next-door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of.
16:34Sarah Palin was the governor of Alaska and the running mate for John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
16:42You betcha! Drill baby drill, and mine baby mine!
16:47The first time Sarah Palin was on, like, national TV, she was like, I can do that.
16:51Ladies, you are true Americans. Yeah, you betcha!
16:57People didn't actually know who it was at first. I remember all the wrestling gossip websites.
17:02They were like, but who is it? And it just took off.
17:04What? Is that the governor? It is! It's Governor Palin!
17:08People were completely committed to the storyline.
17:11When was she going to transform, and who was she going to transform into next?
17:15The story was she was actually in a mental institution, and they brought in Dr. Stevie to bring her back to being the Scream Queen Daphne.
17:25Daphne's bipolar was definitely a superpower for her. She knew how to play that character well, because that character was her.
17:33Everything was so calculated, from her hair, to her makeup, to her persona. And I could just tell she was going to make it count this time.
17:41When she got to come back to TNA, and she was doing really well, it was like a big F you to everyone who didn't believe in her.
17:49When I joined TNA, I started working with Daphne on screen, because I really liked what she was doing.
17:58Do not try this at home!
18:00And I wanted her on my team. Everything about her, she tried to make different, unique, and she was successful.
18:08My name is Mick Foley. I am known as the hardcore legend. I knew Daphne as a colleague, and also as a friend.
18:14Daphne was always up for anything. She just really wanted to put on a good show, and she wanted to be whatever professional wrestling wanted her to be, to a fault.
18:27I did not have any idea that the match that I was in would be the beginning of the end.
18:44Bound for Glory continues with the Monsters Ball match!
18:48Monsters Ball, basically anything goes. Barbed wire bats and thumbtacks and things of that nature are encouraged.
18:57Daphne was part of my crew. We did want her to play a role in the big match with Abyss.
19:03Shannon called me that day, and she was like, they want to throw me through this table with thumbtacks and barbed wire. And she goes, I don't really know if I feel comfortable.
19:10I do remember the move being discussed, and Daphne wanted to do it, and felt like she could do it.
19:18It's just, there's very little room for error.
19:23That's Daphne!
19:25Looking back, we wish we had made a different call.
19:29Double standard, he just...
19:31Oh my God, no, no!
19:33Daphne gets chokeslammed!
19:36The table broke, and she landed on her head.
19:37It wasn't any of the wrestlers on the match's fault. It was as safe as you can make it, but it was the actual fall, and then the concrete floor.
19:47I remember watching on the monitor, and I just ran straight to medical, and I was waiting for her to be brought backstage.
19:56They dragged her to another room, closed the door, and they pushed us all away.
20:02It was maybe 20, 30 minutes after the match, when we realized how serious it was.
20:08Daphne had broken her arm as well.
20:11I just remember the whispering about concussions, and that she hit her head really hard.
20:18And that she wasn't okay.
20:20She, I believe, she had no memory of where she was, and what had just happened.
20:27It was sad to see that someone who had so much potential, and was realizing that potential, had been sidelined for this injury.
20:36And for it to be an injury that turned out to be so consequential to this day, I feel terrible about it.
20:45Just months after suffering a broken arm and serious head trauma, Shannon returns to the TNA ring, desperate not to lose her spot on the roster.
20:56The doctor told her she shouldn't ever get back in the ring again at that point.
21:01And she was like, well, this is my life, I have to.
21:04Knowing Daphne, she wouldn't want anyone to know how injured she was.
21:09When it comes to wrestling, like, there's not a lot of room to be injured.
21:13There's always someone younger, hungrier, more talented, better looking, waiting to take your spot.
21:21I think there's a difference between cleared and cleared.
21:28Why'd she do it?
21:30The same reason we would all do that.
21:33And that's because you want to further your career.
21:36You want to continue to become more valuable in the wrestling business.
21:40It's a shame, but we all do it.
21:42Months after her debilitating injuries, Shannon takes on newcomer Rosie Laudelove.
21:47Rosie was a larger woman.
21:50He has a very, very strong office.
21:52She had Daphne in between her legs and then basically just sits down on her, right on her chest. Bam.
22:01She literally landed on her and it hurt her sternum.
22:05And I guess the wrestler in me, I was like, hell no.
22:08If I would have laid still, I wouldn't have got the second concussion. I just would have had a badly bruised sternum.
22:16I got a bad stinger, another grade two concussion.
22:20The wrestlers at TNA were mostly very supportive and checking in on her.
22:26The company as a whole at that time, there was a whole lawsuit about it.
22:30They weren't taking care of her medical bills and they weren't doing follow-up care for her.
22:37I chose to file a worker's comp claim to try to prove in a court of law that wrestlers are not independent contractors.
22:48We're employees.
22:49And I just feel like at least that what they can do is if you get injured in their ring, they should pay for it.
22:57She settled for money.
23:01I know that part of her settlement at least was they gave her like a thousand of her action figures, which seems like such a crock of crap to me.
23:10This girl had a near-death experience basically for your company and the best you can do is, hey, why don't you go make your own money hawking your merchandise at an independent show.
23:23It's so wild.
23:25They've got concussion protocols now that they did not have back then.
23:27So a lot of those changes were brought about by wrestlers like Daphne.
23:31She really kind of broke a barrier there for us.
23:33But following two major injuries, Shannon's recovery is slower than expected and the toll on her body is starting to show.
23:43It wasn't an option to take the time off, but she was kind of forced into it.
23:48We say that we have a bump card.
23:50That's what we call it.
23:52There's only so many bumps you can take in your life before your body says, yeah, no more of this.
23:56I've got a long way to go, but I see the light at the end of this tunnel and I see, I'm going to cry.
24:08I just, I see hope.
24:10And it's really awesome.
24:12I think for a while there's going to be some things I'm going to have to push through.
24:17I do remember her going into like a deep depression.
24:22I think whatever it did to her brain, it was not good.
24:25And she went severely negative for a while after that.
24:30Some of you may have noticed a little bit of change in my attitude.
24:36But a lot of people don't realize with concussions, if you have bipolar disorder, it's going to amplify it or trigger it.
24:43And she was struggling with that.
24:46There was a shift in her personality.
24:49Trauma changes people.
24:52It changes your brain chemistry.
24:55That's just an uphill battle.
24:57And Daphne Hart into the steel barricade.
25:00I just don't think people really realize how bad I've been hurt.
25:04And as time has gone on, I don't think I'm going to be able to wrestle anymore.
25:19By 2011, injuries forced Shannon to make a decision about the future of her career.
25:27All these injuries took a toll on her.
25:30Like, I think she had headaches for months.
25:33That was the beginning of the end for her, as far as an in-ring performer.
25:36We kind of put a foot down towards the end, especially after the concussions, that she just did not need to go into the ring.
25:45And she agreed.
25:47When you're a wrestler and you can't wrestle, it's your paycheck.
25:50So she was always trying to figure out what the next hustle was going to be for her.
25:55You're also going to be getting a match or two.
25:57Luckily, she had a really great fan base.
26:00She would be online, trying to sell her 8x10s and her t-shirts.
26:04Debsy Debs!
26:06She was doing appearances.
26:07She would pop up here and there and do autograph signings at conventions.
26:11And she was producing for Shine down in Florida.
26:15The Iron Rated!
26:19Finding new purpose, Shannon teams up with other female wrestlers to fight the stigma of bipolar disorder.
26:27I think people don't really realize that for 10 years now I've had a chemical imbalance.
26:32I take medication twice a day and it's something that every day, like, it's a real thing.
26:38As opposed to, you know, it's just me acting crazy as a gimmick.
26:42We banded together as sisters, me, Daphne, Kimberly and Amber Gertner, and got her bipolar disorder awareness tattoos.
26:51It's a colon, a parenthesis and another colon, so it's like happy and sad.
26:56So, for depression and mania.
26:59And it gives me a reason to talk about bipolar disorder.
27:02And that had been the theme of our sisterhood.
27:06She was always there to be the rock for everybody else.
27:08And I think a lot of people find it hard to comprehend, you know, that she was suffering too.
27:13She would have times when she was getting ready to go to the grocery store, she'd get out in the car, and can't remember where she's going.
27:22She would do some refereeing, and even that was giving her issues, like she'd go down to make a count and she was getting dizzy spells, a lot of vertigo.
27:30Those concussions were just killing her.
27:34She was like, when I die, I want my brain to go to science so they can research what's going on with me and hopefully help people.
27:42She had already filled out all the paperwork with the Boston CTE Hospital to have her brain donated.
27:49She decided she needed to make a big change because I think being around the business, not being able to wrestle, was causing her depression.
27:58And so she opted to leave.
28:01For Daphne, losing wrestling was like losing the love of her life.
28:06I miss being in the ring.
28:12That's where my heart is, at least, is in this business.
28:19Definitely.
28:21Shannon, just like many professional wrestlers, when that run is over, don't know how to become regular people.
28:31How to exist outside of that spotlight.
28:33All of us have some kind of struggle like that.
28:38She was big into self-medication for a long time.
28:42It's a band-aid that you can put on a situation for a little bit, you know.
28:47She has a couple drinks, she's feeling good, everything's fine, and then it all kind of tumbles down downhill after that.
28:53She got in a car accident, and then she got in another car accident, and she had to go to rehab because it was court-ordered.
29:01The night before she was going to go into rehab, she contemplated committing suicide.
29:11I made her promise to always call me, and so that's why she called me that night.
29:17Then I took her to rehab the next day.
29:18Every day, I felt like I was having to talk her off a ledge for a while there.
29:24Vipolar disorder makes the bad stuff seem so bad.
29:30I can't wrestle, I haven't wrestled since 2010.
29:32She really struggled with her self-image.
29:37With medication, she was gaining weight, so she was getting really depressed about that.
29:41That's a really big problem.
29:43I think in entertainment for all women, beauty and thinness is a currency.
29:48The fans that she was so enthralled with and loved, a lot of them started writing some negative stuff about her.
29:54Someone said, I look like Ozzy Osbourne and Roseanne had a kid.
30:00The internet can be cruel, and it was really causing her mental anguish.
30:07She was having a lot of physical issues.
30:10She got diagnosed with a thyroid issue, and she was having all these menopausal symptoms, which makes your bipolar meds not work.
30:16I felt guilt for two months.
30:19She was going through a lot of things that would kind of beat anyone down.
30:25So then COVID hit.
30:26Then she was even more isolated.
30:29She would say things like, I'm so alone, I don't have anybody.
30:34And I'm like, oh my gosh, girl, you have so many people.
30:38We always had plans about what we're going to do to get her out of the situation that she was in.
30:46She had a new apartment, she had a new job, and she was going back to school.
30:52I talked to her that morning, and everything seemed to be fine.
30:59And that's when the Instagram moment happened.
31:02On the evening of September 1st, 2021, Shannon goes live on Instagram.
31:15I wasn't even really familiar with Instagram live.
31:20But I just saw that bubble pop up, and it was deaf.
31:25And I thought, oh.
31:26And just basically talking her suicide note.
31:37She stole her former roommate's gun.
31:41She was saying, you guys got to take care of your brain, take care of your brain.
31:44And she would say, take my brain to Boston, take my brain to Boston.
31:48And I knew that it was a lot more serious than I had initially thought.
31:53I've been a firefighter for 10 years, and I deal with people that are in crisis every time I go to work.
32:00And she was just, she was in crisis.
32:06She needed help.
32:08I saw maybe about 10, 20 seconds of it and got up and got dressed and was getting, calling my dad, saying, all right, hey, we need to go to Atlanta.
32:18All of a sudden, I started getting a ton of text messages.
32:27When I logged on and she saw my name, she said, I'm sorry.
32:31She goes, I'm going to break my promise.
32:36I immediately went and called the police up there.
32:42I'm commenting, saying, Gaff, I love you.
32:44And then I'm seeing all the wrestlers I know.
32:47They're all logging in.
32:48They're all saying the same thing.
32:49You know, call me.
32:51I went to my cell phone and started calling her over and over and over again.
33:00I just kept getting, the voicemail was full.
33:02The voicemail was full.
33:04I tried calling her and I, I,
33:11calling her and texting her.
33:12And I just knew that if I could get a hold of her, if I could get her to text me back,
33:16if I could get her on the phone, then I could make sure everything was okay.
33:18She would listen to me.
33:20I'd, ah, .
33:24But she wouldn't answer our phone.
33:27And then, then it went black.
33:28And I was just left staring at my phone, not knowing what I had actually witnessed.
33:38Knowing what I had witnessed, but my brain was not allowing me to process.
33:43When me and my dad got there, my mom was already there, knocking on the door.
33:50And of course, there was no answer.
33:52We had to call the fire department in to call them and knock down the door.
33:56I was on the phone with her mom when they finally broke in.
33:59It was, it was, it was the worst night ever.
34:05I was just waiting on the news.
34:08And then when it arrived, it wasn't, it wasn't good.
34:13Fire department came down and said they were sorry, but she had passed.
34:19And my dad was on my left and my mom was on the right.
34:23And they both kind of knees buckled and I grabbed them.
34:27And then one of the officers helped me grab them and, ah.
34:32It didn't really dawn on me that at this time she had, she had done it.
34:37I talked to her that morning.
34:40And I felt like if I had a chance to talk to her again, we could have talked it out.
34:47I didn't get a chance to talk her out of it.
34:51I like to believe if she knew how much it hurt me,
34:54she wouldn't have done it.
34:58Even though your brain might be telling you that suicide is the only way
35:05and that you don't think you're worth it,
35:09the hole that you leave is, it's too much.
35:15It's too much to fill.
35:18I was mad at her because of my daughter.
35:21My daughter knew her as Aunt Shan.
35:25How dare she do this to my daughter?
35:27How dare she take Aunt Shan away?
35:30How dare she take my friend away?
35:32I'm driving down the road.
35:36I'm supposed to be chipper.
35:37I'm supposed to go to shows.
35:38I'm supposed to shake everybody's hand.
35:40And meanwhile, this person that meant the world to me for, for years is gone.
35:46Shannon, you were an incredible friend.
35:52I just wish you felt comfortable enough to reach out and talk about the things that were bothering you.
36:00And I just wish you were still here now.
36:02It could be really difficult for Daphne to know how loved she was and so unfortunate that she felt all alone.
36:14That's why I encourage people to reach out and reach out to their friends.
36:18That's what we're here for.
36:19She was in a very dark place.
36:25And it was very real to her.
36:27And that's what mental illness and CTE can look like.
36:32It's like a veil.
36:34She believed she had CTE and she wasn't going to let it be in vain.
36:38God, that is her second grade?
36:51Yeah, second grade or something like that.
36:53We lived in O'Fallon, Illinois.
36:55And that was, I believe, her second grade picture.
36:59She made an agreement with the University of Boston that she was going to donate her brain for research.
37:08It made me promise that I would make sure that that happened.
37:13Shannon was going to be the first female brain in their study.
37:18They say that there was CTE, but they don't know how much and to what extent that it was.
37:26The biggest thing for Daphne in her death was that she wanted to bring focus into CTE
37:33and to what concussions long term do.
37:38And when you're willing to do anything for wrestling, what can happen to you?
37:45We really need to listen to her message about taking care of your brain.
37:48As a wrestler with bipolar disorder, my brain health comes first.
37:55I saw what it did to Daphne.
37:57The best counselor in the world can't help anybody if they don't want to get better.
38:02Shannon did, and she worked at it, and we fought the good fight.
38:07She was never shy about talking about her bipolar disorder,
38:10so I think she'd be happy that we were being honest about it.
38:13While Shannon was still alive, she had started to do some charity work with a group called NAMI,
38:20which deals with mental illness.
38:22It's a great cause, and it's a cause that Shannon was already invested in,
38:27so I feel like giving in her honor and in her name just keeps it going.
38:32She did a lot for basically everyone, and it's time to repay.
38:37The outpour of support and love made us realize even more how special of a person she is and was.
38:50I really don't think you'll ever find anybody in the wrestling business that could say a bad word about Daphne,
38:56especially if you met her personally.
39:00There was not a more giving performer to her fans than Shannon.
39:10Daphne.
39:12You look at Daphne as a great character.
39:16It was fun. It was different.
39:17But I think the match that epitomizes her as a human being is the match she had with Vicki Lyons.
39:26I was somewhere on the road, and it was 2 a.m., 3 a.m.
39:30I couldn't sleep, and I'm watching Forensic Files,
39:33and it's a story about a little girl who was run over in a parking lot
39:38and the terrible ordeal that this child went through.
39:41I don't like how people make me feel.
39:46It really touched my heart, and so I type in Vicki Lyons,
39:50and the first thing that comes up is Vicki Lyons, Daphne, YouTube wrestling match,
39:56and I think, no, there's no way.
40:00Vicki Lyons had always wanted to be a professional wrestler,
40:04and Daphne was like, you know what?
40:07I'm going to teach you, and we're going to have a match.
40:09She obviously had limited physical capabilities,
40:13but any time anyone would tell her, no, you can't do this,
40:17she would look you dead in the eyes and be like, yes, I can.
40:24What unfolds is like one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in our sport,
40:29and I've been around a long time.
40:31Shannon knew how to make Vicki look like a star, and she damn sure did it.
40:35That suplex! Daphne gets rocked on that one.
40:41Daphne surprised Vicki by putting her over for a victory in her one match that she trained five years for.
40:49Trying to get the tights, got him! School girl, roll up, and get her!
40:53In that match, I see everything that's good and right about professional wrestling.
41:03I think it was just as good for Shannon as it was for Vicki.
41:09It just showed you who she was as a person and what kind of a special heart she had.
41:14I knew that Shannon was liked and loved, but I did not realize how many people she had touched.
41:21It helped a lot. It helped a lot.
41:26Daphne's legacy is that she taught female professional wrestlers how to be sisters.
41:34To love each other more, build each other up more, and to look after each other, both inside and outside the ring.
41:39David and I were the wrestlers of that crew.
41:45Without question, Daphne's the one that people remember the most.
41:50She oozed positivity.
41:54She was the greatest.
41:56Thank you by just leading by example.
42:00Thank you for being completely an original.
42:03I'm not a religious person at all, but man, she always, always lets me know she's paying attention to me.
42:13I miss her every day.
42:16I love her more and more every day.
42:19I have made it my duty to continue her advocacy for women in wrestling, women in entertainment, and for bipolar disorder patients.
42:31I will always talk about you, Daphne.
42:35Daphne is watching. She's always watching.
42:38She's influencing women's wrestling today and forever, because that was the lasting effect she had.
42:45She's so missed, and I just want to say thank you, Daphne.
42:50And we love you, and we miss you, and I hope you're proud of all of us.
42:54Shannon loved her fans. She loved her family. She loved her friends. She would always be there for you if you needed her to.
43:07That's what I would want people to remember.
43:09I love that girl, I tell you. We miss her, and we love her.
43:16I always thought we were going to be old and sitting in rocking chairs laughing at jokes that we didn't have to say anything, because we would just look at each other and start laughing.
43:27And I hope I did a good job for you. I hope I did what you wanted. I hope I did a good job for you, and I miss you. I miss you a lot.
43:48I miss you. I miss you. I miss you. I miss you.
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