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01:30A tragic turn of events would not only alter the course of Brian's career indefinitely,
01:36but also the lives of those closest to him.
01:40I really believe that if it was not for the Humvee wreck, that everything would have turned
01:43out to me.
01:44Melanie called me, and she called to tell me that Brian had an accident, and it was bad.
01:53Melanie called me, and she called to tell me that Brian had an accident, and it was bad.
02:07And he was airlifted to University Hospital, and was in the emergency room.
02:17So again, I was the lucky one to go to the hospital, and I thought, oh, Jesus, here we go again.
02:25When I got to the hospital, I walked right by the room.
02:28And then Linda's like, that's his room, Melanie.
02:31I'm like, that's not my husband.
02:33She's like, I know, it doesn't look like him, does it?
02:35Because his hair was red with all the blood, and they hit him in a neck brace.
02:43I mean, his head was swelled up like a beach ball.
02:47And I thought, oh, my God.
02:48It was really bad.
02:52His eyes were red, like, I didn't see any color than red, like blood.
02:56His eyes were just, ugh.
02:59He had six different doctors for his face.
03:03There's one that just does the forehead, the lower mandible, the upper mandible, the nose,
03:08the eye sockets.
03:10Everything in his face was shattered.
03:12They had to put plates in his face, and they peeled his scalp back to make the incision
03:20and peeled his face down to put the plates in.
03:25Word travels quickly that Brian has been in a terrible car accident,
03:29and there's talk of him losing a foot.
03:32His ankle was shattered.
03:34In fact, the nurse told me that it was just, like, hanging off the table.
03:38She had to pick it up to put it back on the table.
03:42And then the doctor said, you know, that they would have to just fuse it
03:46into a walking position that he wouldn't probably be able to run
03:52or even wrestle again.
04:01I show up, and he goes,
04:02I said, don't talk, Brian.
04:04It's all right.
04:05Hey, I'm with you.
04:06I'm with you.
04:06I'm thinking, holy f***.
04:08I don't know.
04:08I don't know.
04:10And he's got a titanian mask, and he's got things holding his legs together.
04:17And once he kind of gained consciousness, like, what was his reaction to the accident?
04:21I remember him crying in the hospital, just saying, I guess I really messed up.
04:28I really messed up.
04:29Because he thought, you know, his career was over.
04:32And I said, just be grateful you were by yourself.
04:34There was no kids in the car.
04:37It'll be fine.
04:38But he was crying, saying, I really messed up.
04:47So, to the best of your knowledge, what took place with the accident?
04:50What happened?
04:51What happened to Brian?
04:52Oh, he fell asleep at the wheel.
04:54He had been up, and he went and picked up some of his medication.
04:59And I guess it hit him too soon before he got back to the house.
05:02And, yeah, he just drove into a tree trunk off the side, and it threw the humbee, totaled the humbee.
05:09Was there also maybe, like, was there substance abuse issues with him at the time?
05:17No, just a muscle relaxer.
05:22Maybe a few pain pills.
05:25Well, we are turning the microphone over to you, sir.
05:27We don't need any police reports or doctor reports.
05:29Can you tell us, in your own words, what happened?
05:32Seventy miles per hour, and I instantly became Evel Knieper.
05:36Oh, see.
05:36Shot up in the air, then proceeded to come.
05:39Straight down, nose first.
05:42And luckily for me, I didn't have a seatbelt on because it shot me straight out,
05:47and I pierced the convertible top of that vehicle with my head like a bullet.
05:53It was shot out 50 feet away from the vehicle.
05:56It would end up doing two end-over-end flips.
05:59Oh, my God.
06:03When he came home from the hospital, I do remember him being in the living room,
06:09and I had a gift, and I wanted to give it to him.
06:11And I was just terrified because I'm like, that's not my dad.
06:16I don't know who that is.
06:17You know, as a child and seeing my father like that, I think it just kind of freaked me out a little bit.
06:22I do have some small memories there of just seeing those bolts and how they're just screwed into his leg,
06:30and I'm thinking, what's going on here, you know?
06:32And it's like, they look like they're greased up, but it's like, not greased, but it's like blood,
06:37and like, just, it's all hardened, and it's just, oh, it was just a wild sight to see, you know,
06:42just some rusty bolts sticking out of your dad's leg.
06:48Yeah, I just, I really remember him just being like so exhausted and run down.
06:55I was just too young to really understand, like, what was really going on with him
07:00and, like, how ragged his life had become.
07:11The loose cannon thing had gone so far at this point that a lot of the guys were convinced there was no wreck
07:16and it was Brian working again, and they're just trying to figure out what the angle is.
07:19How does he expect to get more money out of this or more attention out of this?
07:22Or, you know, was it really a wreck or maybe he just ran his car off the road and wrecked it to get, you know, publicity?
07:28He had created so much, not only mystery, but confusion about himself
07:34that even the guys that were his friends weren't exactly sure how to take him.
07:39Perhaps he would have done that for attention.
07:41And then Kim, who would not work me, Kim is just like, no, no, no, it's real.
07:46And I told people, it's real, and then, you know, I think most people didn't believe me either.
07:50He was, you know, there's the Andy Kaufman thing in him.
07:53Faking an auto accident, perhaps he would have done that for attention.
07:56There was even at one point a rumor that some of the wrestlers put out
08:00that he was having plastic surgery to look just like Shawn Michaels
08:04so he could go into the World Wrestling Federation and be the evil Shawn Michaels
08:08and fight him for the title.
08:09Guys believed that because they thought Brian was nuts.
08:14While the wrestling rumor mill is speculating the authenticity of the accident,
08:19media outlets also question Brian's intentions.
08:22Brian, now you're not having plastic surgery and, you know,
08:26going to go into the WWF as Shawn Michaels' twin or something.
08:29I don't know what goes on America online.
08:30If you listen, think about that statement.
08:33Uh, it's preposterous, but just...
08:34Right now, I am the owner of four steel titanium plates
08:40bolted to my face to hold everything together.
08:43I look like Brian Depp and Pillman with a swollen face and black eyes.
08:48I can look back, and Brian was pretty honest with me most of the time,
08:52but the one where I know that he wasn't was right after the accident.
08:57And Brian, you know, said like,
08:58oh yeah, the doctors told me, you know, it's like,
09:00it's going to take a while, but I will be 100%.
09:02The doctors have told me, and I know that the doctors told him the exact opposite.
09:07The wreck happened during the negotiations.
09:10He kept it pretty quiet how badly he was hurt.
09:13And if the real story of that wreck had come out at that point,
09:18I don't think he would have got a contract from either company.
09:21He could never again do physically what he had been able to do before.
09:26And he didn't want anybody to know that.
09:29The object was to play Vince for money.
09:34And he did.
09:35Only he was near dead when he did.
09:38Vince signed him.
09:39And he signed him for more money.
09:40Vince McMahon offers Brian a guaranteed three-year contract.
09:48And although Eric Bischoff offers him more money,
09:51his deal is subject to be renegotiated every three months.
09:56Brian knew at that point, because of the extent of the injury,
10:00that if he had an out clause in a contract,
10:02that at some point fairly early, it was going to get exercised.
10:05The events that have taken place in my life just in the past eight weeks
10:10have really changed the future of my life.
10:16And from going from a point not knowing if I was going to live or not
10:22to standing here signing a contract with the World Wrestling Federation,
10:28it's a dream come true.
10:30What changed about Brian coming into our company at that time?
10:36Well, he's not going to be able to wrestle to any degree
10:39or even comparably to what he was.
10:44Although Brian is still in rehabilitation for his injuries,
10:48he officially joins the WWF in 1996
10:51with the loose cannon persona already in full force.
10:56There's Brian Pillman.
10:57What's he doing?
10:58Brian Pillman recently signing with the World Wrestling Federation.
11:04I just remember him coming in and I was like,
11:07okay, let's see what he can do here in the land of, you know, WWF.
11:13They'll let you go out there and push the envelope,
11:17but, you know, how strong is he?
11:19Can he do it?
11:19And I would have, if I was going to bet on Brian, I'm like, oh, yeah.
11:23If he could just get healed up, he's going to go right to the top.
11:27I'm going to rape, pillage, and blunder this entire Federation!
11:32When Brian came home, he still had an IV.
11:43And he unhook himself from the IV, go do the show,
11:47and then come back and hook himself back up again.
11:50He had to do that because of work.
11:53So then it wasn't fun for him anymore.
11:56You know, I don't think he enjoyed it anymore.
11:58You know, that was what I consider the beginning of the end.
12:08As Brian Pillman continues to struggle with his crippling injuries,
12:13an upcoming surgery keeps him out of any in-ring action.
12:16To disguise this from fans, the WWF devises a shocking storyline involving his old tag team partner.
12:25I needed to do something to get some heat.
12:28We were in Cincinnati in his hometown, so it's always great to attack somebody in a hometown,
12:34especially him being in a compromised position.
12:36Steve and Brian were still friends, and they still wanted to see each other succeed.
12:40Steve was still on his way up, so we decided to put them together
12:44because we thought that they would enjoy it, and at the same time, the people would enjoy it as well.
12:49They win!
12:50What a cheap shot!
12:52I laid into him and started kicking the hell out of him.
12:56I broke that cane on his ankle.
12:59That brass duck head flew into the crowd.
13:01Oh!
13:02Oh, my God!
13:03I stomped a mud hole in his ass and walked it dry.
13:06That was a stiff beating I gave him because it had to be.
13:10My character was a vicious, cold-blooded guy who was ruthless and remorseless.
13:16So had I not given him the beating that I gave him, who would have cared?
13:21They cared about Brian because I hurt his ass.
13:24He may have re-broken Pillman's ankle here!
13:27He gets Brian Pillman down, and he puts a metal folding chair around the bad ankle
13:32and then stomps the seat of the chair.
13:35Oh, my God!
13:36And Brian screams, oh, my God, he's re-injured the ankle.
13:41Here's a way you can do that.
13:43I won't give away any secrets.
13:45But that was an excuse for Brian to have continued problems with the ankle publicly on television.
13:51It became, in the industry, known as Pillmanizing a body part.
13:56Brian took that ass-whooping like a damn man.
13:59He knew what I had to do, and he sold it like a million bucks.
14:02In the midst of a TV ratings war with WCW, Vince strives to produce edgier content
14:11to further capitalize on the feud between Pillman and Austin.
14:15Somehow they decided, and I was not consulted on this,
14:21but they decided that it would be a wonderful thing
14:24if they did a remote from Brian Pillman's house in Cincinnati.
14:29We are live! Austin is outside of Brian Pillman's home!
14:33Steve Austin came to find him and stage a home invasion on Monday Night Raw.
14:40Austin tried to get into the house of Brian Pillman.
14:44Were you excited to do something that felt so real and gritty at that time?
14:47I always wanted to do something that feels real and gritty,
14:49especially something that's going to have the, you know, the volume turned up,
14:54the testosterone, the adrenaline turned up.
14:57I mean, hell, man, if you're just casually,
15:00if you're not a wrestling fan and you're kind of just flipping channels
15:02and all of a sudden you watch this, 10 seconds of this scene,
15:07you're not going to change a channel.
15:08Steve is a dead man walking because when Austin 316 meets Pillman,
15:159mm a clock, I'm going to blast his serious strength to hell.
15:22All of a sudden, man, I start bashing in that window with that aluminum baseball bat.
15:26What the hell is that?
15:30And there's metal in there just shrieking.
15:33That's awesome.
15:34I remember events was like,
15:36all right, we're going to have a stone call,
15:38and y'all just wing it from there.
15:40Don't go in there! Don't go in there!
15:45Nothing like that had ever been done before in wrestling.
15:47It was kind of groundbreaking, whether it was in a good way or a bad way.
15:51People weren't ready for it.
15:52They weren't ready for it.
15:54The reaction was pretty negative to it.
15:56I mean, it was pretty darn negative.
15:57I didn't like it.
15:58I didn't like the idea of, like, you know, using a gun,
16:00and it seemed going really extreme,
16:03but that's the direction wrestling went.
16:04Oh, my God, he's back!
16:07That's Brian, you know?
16:08I don't know whose idea it was
16:09and how much input he had on the idea.
16:11He never really told me that.
16:12But he was absolutely really into it.
16:15And they had to apologize for it the next week
16:17because the gun thing, you know,
16:18Vince had to actually go on television
16:19and apologize for that angle
16:21because it got so much negativity.
16:23And on behalf of the World Wrestling Federation,
16:25for those of you who were offended,
16:26those viewers, we humbly apologize
16:28for the incident that took place last Monday night on Raw.
16:32And I think that's the only angle Vince
16:34ever apologized for.
16:36The donut here at ringside!
16:38While still recovering from the car wreck,
16:40Pillman is temporarily sidelined as a broadcast announcer.
16:44Yeah, I'm going to cut through all your duplicit rhetoric
16:46and cut right to the chase.
16:49Tell them like it is.
16:50And hey, if the sensors don't like it,
16:52you're going to get fired.
16:54He looked at being an announcer as a come-down.
17:02It was less than.
17:03It's not being a man.
17:04When I said, look, you can make a great living,
17:08you can take care of your health,
17:09he didn't want to hear it.
17:11Only thing he wanted to hear was me to encourage him
17:13that you can come back and be what you were
17:16or really, really close to it.
17:18And I had never told him because I was going to lie.
17:23You know, the competitor in him
17:24wanted just to get back in the ring at work.
17:27And he was working matches, but he was in a lot of pain.
17:29The former Cincinnati Bengals
17:30had two major surgeries on his leg.
17:33Even though he was able to sometimes have decent matches,
17:36just because he was smart enough to know how
17:37and he would fall on his face,
17:39do things that were dangerous in a different way
17:40but not hurt the body parts that were hurt,
17:42it was really sad to watch.
17:44You know, he wasn't the same at all.
17:45Brian needed to stay medicated more often than he should
17:48because of the pain he was in,
17:50because he was doing things
17:52that he shouldn't have been doing.
17:56He made it through because he'd say,
18:00oh, I'm okay, I'm good, I'm fine.
18:03He wasn't fine.
18:05Consistently performing well beyond
18:07what his body can handle,
18:08Brian's dependency on painkillers
18:11and the pressure to provide for his family
18:13is pushing him to the point of no return.
18:23While rushing through recovery,
18:25Brian Pillman hampers any progress on his injuries
18:28by choosing to still perform in the ring,
18:31which results in his pain becoming all-consuming.
18:35The only thing Brian ever told me
18:37was that if he had an ache or a pain,
18:40he took a pill.
18:41He said if it didn't go away,
18:43he took another one.
18:44And then he took a pill till it went away.
18:49He was sick, physically sick,
18:51with infection in his ankle
18:53because he was going to shows
18:56and not recouping it properly.
18:58I would talk to guys in WWF
19:02and they would tell me
19:04how he couldn't get through the airport.
19:06You know what I mean?
19:07He couldn't walk through the airport
19:08and he's out there taking bumps in a wrestling ring.
19:10It's like he cannot walk through the airport.
19:14I'd see him kind of walking around with his suitcase
19:17and he wasn't moving so well.
19:19But Brian is one of those guys
19:21and like a man's man.
19:22You just figure,
19:23whatever it is,
19:24Brian's got it.
19:25He's Brian Pellman.
19:29You know,
19:29and I could have seen the writing on the wall,
19:32but because of the regard that I held him in,
19:34I thought it was going to be just fine.
19:36When you have wrestlers that are missing shows
19:39or obviously unable to perform
19:41when they get there,
19:42then you know you've got problems.
19:44It wasn't that obvious with Brian.
19:46And how were you able to tell
19:48where the loose cannon ended
19:50and the real person began
19:52and how was your guys' relationship?
19:54We had some problems.
19:55We were having problems
19:56because he kept wrecking rental cars.
19:58He was definitely like nodding out at the wheel.
20:01He was definitely having issues.
20:03He acted as though
20:05he wasn't going to be around much longer.
20:07He used to say things like,
20:08if anything happens to me,
20:09make sure you move back to Atlanta
20:11and don't stay up here
20:12if you're not comfortable here
20:13and make sure you find somebody
20:15so the kids have a father.
20:16I'm like,
20:16why would you even say something like that?
20:18And then the next day,
20:19he wrecked a rental car.
20:22I had become a bit estranged from him
20:25because he was f***ed up.
20:28And one time he came to my house
20:30and he had a big welt.
20:32You could see the hole.
20:34It was like a, you know,
20:35the syringe.
20:36It was a horse needle syringe
20:37that went in there.
20:39And it was growth hormone or something.
20:41But he was f***ed up.
20:42He was like,
20:42he kept repeating himself.
20:44And I said,
20:44this is it, Brian.
20:46I'll give you to 10
20:47and get the f*** out of my house.
20:49My kids are upstairs sleeping.
20:50Don't ever come here in this state.
20:52Oh yeah,
20:53but I gotta do that.
20:54I gotta,
20:54I gotta,
20:54I gotta,
20:55I said,
20:56no,
20:57I can't.
20:57I'm sorry.
20:58Your friend would get the f*** away from me right now.
21:01And he did.
21:02Some of his friends had come to me
21:05when I was in charge of title relations
21:07and say that this was becoming a bigger issue
21:10and I needed to intervene.
21:13And it was gonna be tough
21:15because he was not gonna appreciate that intervention.
21:20I called the agent,
21:21lead agent.
21:21I said,
21:22you know,
21:22I'm gonna have a drug tester there tonight
21:24to test Pillman.
21:26And I said,
21:27make sure it gets done.
21:27He felt like I had,
21:31I had betrayed him.
21:33That's what he told me.
21:34I can't believe you,
21:35you of all people would betray me.
21:38And that you,
21:40you,
21:40you,
21:40you always,
21:42you always had my back.
21:44You were always there for me.
21:46And now this.
21:48I said,
21:49Brian,
21:49I'm trying to save your life.
21:51That's all I'm trying to do.
21:54And Brian was calling me up.
21:56I hate Jim Ross.
21:57Why is he singling me out?
21:59Do you know how many guys in this company
22:00are doing drugs?
22:01And he goes,
22:02they're not gonna find anything on me.
22:04Nothing but my prescription pain pills.
22:06They're not gonna find any illegal drugs in me.
22:08And in fact,
22:09you know,
22:09the only thing that they found in him
22:11was prescription pain drugs and steroids,
22:13which,
22:13you know,
22:13and,
22:14and,
22:14and extent,
22:15you know,
22:15I don't know that that really counts
22:17for what they were looking for.
22:20I had to lead Brian out of the path
22:22that he was on
22:23to no avail.
22:24I failed.
22:25I needed to convince him
22:28that he's so talented
22:29that he was going to be a star
22:33in other areas of pro wrestling.
22:36I failed.
22:37In October of 1997,
22:40at the Kiel Center
22:42in St. Louis, Missouri,
22:43Brian is scheduled to compete
22:45at WWF's pay-per-view event,
22:48Bad Blood.
22:49In those days,
22:50the call time for talent
22:51at the pay-per-views
22:52was one o'clock.
22:53And sometimes guys would be late,
22:55oversleep,
22:56miss their flight,
22:57traffic,
22:58whatever,
22:59but
22:59by five o'clock,
23:01everybody was accounted for
23:03except for Brian.
23:04And that was egregiously late
23:06to be
23:06for a pay-per-view.
23:08So,
23:09Bruce Pritchard asked me,
23:10I'm in talent relations,
23:11he said,
23:11call,
23:12try to find
23:13where he,
23:13you know,
23:14where he might be.
23:15Call the hotel
23:15where he stayed last night
23:16in Minneapolis
23:17to see what time
23:17he checked out.
23:20I get on the phone
23:21and boom,
23:22the guy answers.
23:22I said,
23:23I'm with the World Wrestling Federation,
23:25we're looking for
23:26one of our wrestlers,
23:27he stayed there last night,
23:28Brian Pillman,
23:28can you tell me
23:29what time he checked out?
23:31And the guy said,
23:33hold on a second.
23:34And he put me on hold.
23:35Okay,
23:36is he checking his records?
23:38And he answered,
23:38he said,
23:38sir?
23:39I said,
23:39yeah?
23:39He said,
23:41Mr. Pillman's dead.
23:44And the first flash
23:46that I had,
23:47what is Brian doing now?
23:50I said,
23:50is this a rib?
23:54And the guy said,
23:55no,
23:55the police are here now.
23:57I said,
23:58okay.
23:59So I told one
24:01of the production assistants,
24:02I said,
24:03go get Bruce.
24:04And he said,
24:05oh,
24:05Bruce is busy,
24:06he's doing that.
24:06I said,
24:07Brian is dead,
24:08go get Bruce.
24:10And Bruce came in
24:11and got on the phone
24:11and I just kind of
24:12walked off
24:13because I did not
24:14want to hear that
24:15news right now.
24:1723 years later,
24:18I didn't want
24:18to hear that news.
24:25On October 5th,
24:271997,
24:28Brian Pillman
24:29was found dead
24:30in his hotel room
24:31in Bloomington,
24:32Minnesota.
24:33He was 35 years old.
24:36It's hard for me
24:37to still think
24:38about it today
24:39and think of
24:40that heart
24:41of that athlete,
24:42of that performer
24:43stalking.
24:46Just doesn't
24:47seem believable.
24:49It almost didn't
24:50register with me
24:51because I'm like,
24:51eh,
24:53Brian ain't dead
24:54because he couldn't die.
24:56If you knew Brian,
24:57this force field
24:58of energy
24:58that he was,
25:00I thought
25:00could never be stopped.
25:02I honestly thought that.
25:04State police
25:05showed up
25:06on the door
25:07and said
25:09that he had
25:10to tell me
25:10that my husband
25:11was found deceased.
25:20As a kid already
25:21in this show business world,
25:22I was thinking,
25:23like,
25:23is this work?
25:24Like,
25:24is he really dead?
25:25Like,
25:25no,
25:25he's surely coming back.
25:26Like,
25:26I didn't even know
25:27what to think.
25:28I didn't even,
25:28I didn't even cry
25:29when my dad died.
25:31And I just remember,
25:32like,
25:32my family is all,
25:33we're all sitting
25:34on the bed,
25:35like,
25:35hugging each other
25:36and crying
25:37and everybody's crying
25:38and I'm looking around
25:38and I'm like,
25:39where's the camera crew?
25:40They gotta be around
25:41here somewhere,
25:41you know?
25:42I was like,
25:42all right,
25:42I'll,
25:42you know,
25:43I'll play the spot here,
25:44you know,
25:44we'll all just hug
25:45and pretend we're sad
25:46but then,
25:46like,
25:47reality set in.
25:48I'm like,
25:49oh shit,
25:49he's really not coming home.
25:50Like,
25:51holy crap.
25:52As a kid,
25:53that's just kind of
25:53what I thought.
25:54I figured,
25:54you know what,
25:55he went to work that day
25:56and he decided
25:57to stay there.
25:59The next night
26:00on Monday Night Raw,
26:02the news of Brian's death
26:03is broadcast live.
26:05Yesterday afternoon,
26:08Brian Pillman
26:09was found dead
26:11in a hotel room
26:13in Bloomington, Minnesota.
26:19I remember when we
26:20told the bell 10 times,
26:22that was when
26:23I got emotional.
26:24I remember
26:24very emotional
26:26and that's when
26:27I was like,
26:28he's gone.
26:30He's gone.
26:31And then I remember
26:32talking to,
26:33I think Jim Ross.
26:34I said,
26:34hand the phone to Owen
26:35and then Owen says,
26:36I don't know,
26:37I don't know what happened.
26:39Then Vince got on the phone
26:40and he says,
26:41do you want to,
26:42you know,
26:42talk on camera
26:43and then I just thought,
26:44well,
26:44you know what,
26:45with Brian,
26:46the show must go on.
26:48Joining us now,
26:48ladies and gentlemen,
26:49in suburban Cincinnati,
26:51the wife of Brian Pillman,
26:53Melanie Pillman.
26:53Melanie,
26:53thank you so much
26:54for joining us tonight.
26:56I did say to Vince,
26:58please don't ask me
26:59about drugs
27:00or anything like that
27:01because I do not
27:02exactly know
27:03why he died yet.
27:04Brian,
27:05because of his injuries,
27:07has had to take
27:08a great deal
27:09of prescribed medicine.
27:11And that first thing
27:12he does
27:13is start talking
27:13about pain pills
27:15and then I'm like,
27:16that's Vince,
27:16all right.
27:17I made like
27:17a really funny face
27:18and I remember
27:18that's the only clear part
27:20of that interview
27:20I can remember thinking,
27:22wish his mother
27:23was standing here
27:24so I could smack him.
27:26Because he swore,
27:27he swore he wouldn't
27:28say anything like
27:29leading down that direction
27:31until the death certificate
27:33came out.
27:34I think all athletes
27:35to a degree
27:36experience a reliance
27:39on pain medicine
27:40and, you know,
27:41I knew it was just
27:42a matter of time
27:43before it happened
27:45to someone
27:46and, fortunately,
27:48it was my husband.
27:50And I just want
27:51everyone to know
27:52that I hope
27:55it's a wake-up call
27:56to some of you
27:57because it could be
27:58your husband next
28:00or it could be you
28:00and, you know,
28:02you don't want
28:03to leave behind
28:03a bunch of orphans
28:05like my husband did.
28:07I absolutely despised
28:11the grieving widow interview.
28:14I didn't like it
28:15on a wrestling program.
28:16I was uncomfortable
28:16with it.
28:17I didn't know
28:18why she had to go
28:19out there
28:19and have to answer
28:21these questions
28:22that were obviously
28:23meant to elicit tears
28:26and et cetera
28:27for television,
28:29say, for good television.
28:31I thought he should
28:32have sent her a check
28:32for $100,000
28:33and kept her ass
28:34off TV
28:35is what I thought.
28:36Have you had
28:37any opportunity
28:37to think about
28:38what you now
28:40as a single parent
28:41will do to support
28:42your five children?
28:46Vince, I don't even
28:47really know
28:48what day it is,
28:49you know,
28:49so I don't
28:51know what I'm going
28:52to do.
28:53Yeah, and everybody's
28:54like, oh,
28:54that was so horrible
28:55what you did to her.
28:56I barely remember it.
28:58I didn't really,
28:59I didn't really
28:59think about
29:01not doing it,
29:02but nobody pressured
29:04me into it.
29:04I hated it.
29:08I didn't want
29:09to relive
29:09and relive
29:10and regurgitate
29:12and regurgitate
29:12this matter
29:14to pop a rating.
29:17And to me,
29:18that's what
29:19it was all about.
29:19And what was
29:27the official
29:28cause of death?
29:30Um,
29:31heart disease.
29:34And see,
29:34my father died
29:35of a massive
29:36heart attack
29:36at 55.
29:39What were your
29:40memories of
29:40his funeral?
29:43We got there
29:44early before
29:45people came in
29:46cause it was
29:46supposed to be
29:47family and
29:48friends.
29:48And when we
29:49walked in,
29:50there was a
29:50camera crew
29:51there.
29:52And I walked
29:52up to him
29:53and I said,
29:53who are you?
29:54And I said,
29:55you're not
29:55supposed to be
29:56here.
29:57They said,
29:57well,
29:58Melanie said
29:58we can't.
29:59And I said,
29:59well,
29:59I'm Brian's
30:00sister and I'm
30:00telling you,
30:01no,
30:01you can't.
30:02And they
30:03left.
30:03Did many
30:05wrestlers show
30:05up?
30:06Um,
30:07no.
30:10Just Vince
30:11and Jim Ross
30:13were there.
30:15They had an
30:15open casket
30:16and I knew
30:17then it was
30:18going to be
30:18really tough.
30:20There's the
30:20last time I saw
30:21him.
30:22That's the last
30:23time I would
30:23see Brian
30:24lying in a
30:25casket.
30:27And that was
30:27just gut-wrenching,
30:29absolutely gut-wrenching.
30:32I just stared
30:32and I had
30:34memories floating
30:35back when I was
30:36looking at the
30:36courts.
30:37I'm thinking,
30:38this shouldn't be
30:38a part of my
30:39pro-wrestling career.
30:41This should not
30:41be a part of my
30:42journey in this
30:43crazy business.
30:45And we shouldn't
30:46be burying a guy
30:48that's this young
30:48and there's a
30:50young family
30:51around him.
30:53At the very end,
30:54everyone's gone
30:54except for,
30:56you know,
30:56a couple family
30:57members.
30:58And the little
30:59girls,
31:00they're kind of
31:00running around
31:01and they're not
31:01like crying or
31:02anything.
31:02They're just
31:03little kids and
31:03we've got to
31:04say goodbye to
31:05daddy and they
31:05all run to the
31:06casket,
31:07goodbye daddy,
31:07goodbye daddy.
31:09It's like,
31:09oh.
31:12And I think for
31:13me, I was just
31:14in complete shock.
31:15I just, you know,
31:16I couldn't, I
31:17couldn't put it
31:18all together.
31:19I just couldn't
31:19believe it because
31:20it's like I lost
31:21my mom and now
31:22my dad, you know,
31:23and I was just,
31:24I was just a lost
31:25little girl.
31:26going through the
31:32motions and
31:32pretending I was
31:33still alive and
31:34I had a soul.
31:36I just felt like I
31:38just didn't know
31:38what to do.
31:41Right now, like,
31:42it's the same day
31:43almost.
31:46What do you mean?
31:46I mean, I can
31:47bring myself back
31:48to that same pain
31:49in my heart.
31:50If I let go too
31:53long, which I'm
31:54just going to stop
31:54now, that's okay
31:55for a second.
32:01He had such an
32:02impact, such an
32:02influence on so
32:03many people's lives.
32:04It had to have
32:05hurt everybody to
32:07see him go.
32:08It had to have
32:08hurt everybody to
32:09lose him.
32:09But the person
32:11that hurt the most
32:11was Melanie,
32:12was my mother.
32:13She dealt with
32:14losing what was
32:16ultimately the love
32:16of her life.
32:19After Brian is
32:20laid to rest,
32:21his children are
32:22jolted into their
32:23new reality.
32:25I never really
32:25had a problem
32:26with Melanie
32:26until my father
32:29passed and then,
32:31you know, like,
32:31her true character
32:32revealed itself.
32:37I spiraled out of
32:38control.
32:39I wasn't the best
32:40mother in the world.
32:41I always loved my
32:42kids.
32:44Up until this
32:45day, Melanie
32:46receives royalties
32:47from my father's
32:49legacy, which I
32:50might have seen
32:50zero sense.
32:53Oh, yeah, they
32:54said I was a gold
32:55digger, too, and I
32:56spent all the money
32:57I ever got on
32:58crazy stuff.
33:01Some of it will
33:01spend on crazy
33:02stuff, but not
33:03the way they
33:05said it.
33:07We stayed at my
33:08dad's house for a
33:09while, and then
33:09things got really bad
33:11and we moved, and
33:12you know, running
33:13water would be
33:14turned off all the
33:15time, electric would
33:16be turned off.
33:17It's crazy how you
33:18go from having a
33:19silver platter growing
33:20up to not even
33:21knowing when your
33:22next meal is going
33:23to be.
33:24It took a downward
33:26spiral.
33:26I mean, there's no
33:27other way to put it.
33:28It got worse and
33:30worse and worse and
33:31worse.
33:32Depressed a lot,
33:34sleeping a lot,
33:35drinking too much.
33:37Brian found me on,
33:38passed out one time,
33:39and I almost died of
33:40alcohol poisoning.
33:41I was like 12, and
33:43found me on the
33:44floor with a bottle
33:45of vodka by my
33:46head.
33:47No kids should have
33:48to see something
33:48like that.
33:50Craziness.
33:52When my mother
33:53remarried and my
33:54stepfather came into
33:55the picture, there
33:56was a lot of drug
33:57abuse on the side of
33:58them, and there was
33:59a lot of neglect.
34:01My stepfather was
34:02very physically abusive
34:03with my sister and
34:05myself.
34:05I would be grounded
34:06to my room.
34:07Oh, you're grounded
34:08for the next six
34:09months, you know.
34:10I better not see you
34:11out of your room.
34:12He had dogs more or
34:13less trained to abuse
34:15me as well, and if I
34:16was grounded, like,
34:17these dogs would make
34:18sure I was kept in my
34:19room.
34:20Like, they would bark
34:21at me, and they would
34:21bite me, and they
34:22would physically, like,
34:23keep me in my room
34:24because of how I was
34:25verbally and physically
34:26abused by my stepdad.
34:27Like, these dogs would
34:28adopt that mentality of,
34:30like, attacking me.
34:39And then I was just,
34:40I was just so abused
34:41that my social,
34:43developing socially
34:44was very hard for me.
34:47And that's how,
34:48you know, like,
34:51nobody took me out
34:54to throw a baseball
34:54with me, you know.
34:56Like,
34:57nobody took me out
35:00to throw a football,
35:01you know.
35:01So, I went to school.
35:03I didn't know how to
35:04play sports, you know.
35:05I wasn't very athletic,
35:08you know, so I couldn't
35:09catch a football,
35:10couldn't throw a baseball.
35:12But I was big into games
35:14and video games and stuff,
35:16and I had a GameCube,
35:18and eventually he caught
35:20onto that.
35:21My stepdad would catch
35:21onto that shit,
35:22he'd unplug it,
35:23you know, he'd throw it
35:23against the wall.
35:24It's like everything I ever
35:29latched onto or loved
35:31was taken away,
35:32you know, so.
35:33Um,
35:34it was hard.
35:35It was a hard time.
35:38While Brian Jr.
35:39and Brittany
35:40grow up with Melanie,
35:41Danielle lives
35:42with her mother.
35:43As the siblings
35:44drift apart,
35:45their Aunt Linda
35:46takes action.
35:47At least
35:49once or twice a month,
35:52I would get them together,
35:54and so they didn't
35:54lose contact
35:55with each other.
35:59She is
35:59literally everything.
36:01She's,
36:01I swear,
36:02I think that she is
36:03a true angel.
36:05I don't have a mom,
36:06but she's the closest
36:07thing I have to
36:08as a mom.
36:09I can call her
36:10at any time.
36:11I mean,
36:11she took me in,
36:12you know,
36:13she bought this house
36:14so we could have
36:14a home and a family.
36:16And I just,
36:18I don't know
36:19what I would do
36:19without her.
36:20I really don't.
36:26They'd all come
36:27to my house.
36:30There's a spider
36:31in the bathtub upstairs.
36:33I don't kill anything.
36:35You know,
36:35I always take them
36:36outside when I find them.
36:39Brian has a deadly
36:41fear of spiders.
36:42and there's one
36:46and I saw it
36:47this morning.
36:47I thought,
36:47oh,
36:48I'll get that later.
36:49I didn't think
36:49he'd go to the bathroom.
36:54I love Linda to death
36:56and she's helped
36:57the kids a lot.
36:58And I just want,
37:00I just want them
37:01to forgive me.
37:02But do I know
37:03if they will or not?
37:04I don't know.
37:06Brian Pillman lives on
37:08in the hearts
37:09and minds of his family,
37:10but his legacy
37:11would return to the ring
37:13in a way
37:13no one would anticipate.
37:22Brian Pillman's legacy
37:23in wrestling
37:24lives on
37:25in that he created
37:26a character
37:26that people still
37:27remember to this day
37:28because it was
37:29in large part himself.
37:32He's a guy
37:33that overcame
37:34a lot of odds
37:35and totally kicked ass
37:36in an industry
37:37of guys
37:39that were much
37:39larger than him.
37:41I would have loved
37:42to see
37:43what the next 10 years
37:44would have played out
37:45for him
37:45had he never had
37:46that damn car wreck.
37:50He knew
37:51the hand
37:52that he was dealt
37:53after the accident.
37:56There wasn't a damn thing
37:58he could do about it,
37:59which killed him.
38:01Figuratively
38:02and I think
38:03eventually
38:03literally.
38:06Brian's death
38:07started a domino effect
38:09that forced people
38:11to recognize
38:12the steroid issue
38:13but put extra focus
38:16on the real
38:17cause
38:18of people dying
38:19too young,
38:20which is
38:20pills.
38:22The only hurdle
38:23he couldn't get across
38:24was the last one
38:26and it was
38:27his own body
38:28that
38:29had betrayed him.
38:30The biggest legacy
38:33though
38:34unfortunately
38:34is
38:35what would have been.
38:37Where he would have gone,
38:39what heights
38:39he would have achieved,
38:40how much bigger
38:41and better
38:42he would have gotten.
38:44He saw the end goal.
38:45He was so close
38:46to really just
38:46completely making it
38:48in wrestling.
38:49Would he have been
38:50along with
38:51The Rock
38:52and Steve Austin
38:53and a few other guys
38:54the biggest star
38:55in wrestling
38:55five years later?
38:56Probably.
38:58One of them.
39:00Right now
39:10what are your biggest goals
39:10to be set?
39:12Just rebuilding
39:13my relationship
39:13with my kids.
39:16Having my kids
39:17not be mad at me
39:18by the time I die.
39:20We'll see if that happens.
39:21My dad's not here
39:27so if I got
39:28one parent left
39:29that I can go
39:30oh well
39:30you know
39:30that's my mom
39:31that's just
39:31the way she is
39:32you know
39:32like
39:33sure I could
39:34live the rest
39:34of my life
39:35hating her
39:35but
39:36where does
39:36that get me?
39:39Ever since
39:39I've rekindled
39:40my relationship
39:41with her
39:41I've been happier
39:42in my personal life
39:43I've been
39:43better in my
39:44relationships
39:45with women
39:45I've been
39:46more understanding
39:47of people's plights
39:48and people's vices
39:49I've been
39:49just a much more
39:51mature adult
39:51in general
39:52since I've
39:53buried the hatchet
39:53with my mother
39:54so to speak
39:54and in many ways
39:56I'm very happy
39:57that I have
39:58a parent
39:58left on this earth
39:59to speak to
40:00and talk to
40:01you know
40:01I called Mel
40:02a time or two
40:03and man
40:04it was just
40:04lost contact
40:05and man
40:07I reached out
40:07to you know
40:08Brian Jr.
40:09a couple years ago
40:10I had one of
40:11Brian's old
40:12weight lifting belts
40:12out of nowhere
40:13a sign from
40:14the wrestling gods
40:15comes in the form
40:16of a cell phone call
40:17from Stone Cold
40:18Seaboston
40:18to tell me
40:19that he has
40:20a Cardillo
40:21weight lifting belt
40:22that belonged
40:24to my father
40:25and that he wants
40:25to mail it to me
40:26and give it to me
40:27and I'm like
40:27you know what
40:28that's a sign
40:29that's a sign
40:30following in his
40:31father's footsteps
40:33Brian Pillman Jr.
40:35decides to become
40:36a professional wrestler
40:37when he first said
40:40he was going to wrestle
40:40like it struck
40:42terror in my heart
40:43I was like
40:44oh my god
40:44he'll have fractured
40:45relationships
40:46his kids won't
40:47get the attention
40:47he's going to travel
40:48all the time
40:48he's not going
40:49to be able
40:49and then
40:51I saw him
40:52perform
40:53and I saw
40:54the look on his face
40:55when he knew
40:56that he was
40:57creating
40:58homage to his dad
40:59and I realized
41:05this is
41:06this is it
41:06this is what's
41:07supposed to happen
41:07he just woke up
41:09one day
41:10and he was going
41:10to be a wrestler
41:11and I literally
41:12laughed
41:12I'm like
41:13you a wrestler
41:14all you do
41:15is sit in your room
41:15and play video games
41:16there's no way
41:17that you're going
41:17to be a wrestler
41:18and it was just crazy
41:20like he was determined
41:21and he quit his job
41:23that he had just
41:24graduated college
41:25and he was
41:26he was going to do it
41:27and I was very
41:28hesitant at first
41:29just because of
41:30everything my dad
41:30went through
41:31and I didn't want
41:32my brother to fall
41:33into that same lifestyle
41:34so I was scared
41:35I think he'd be proud
41:37of him
41:38his son wants to
41:39carry on the
41:40Pillman name
41:40he wants to make
41:41his father proud
41:42of him
41:42he wants to
41:44accomplish something
41:45on his own
41:46but yet pay tribute
41:48to his dad
41:49I think Brian
41:50would be into that
41:51I just think he might
41:52be worried that
41:52Brian Jr. is in it
41:54all by himself
41:55he's got some people
41:56looking out for him
41:57but I think
41:58Brian Sr. would
41:59a whole lot rather
42:00be there
42:00and keep an eye on him
42:02great kid
42:03looks a lot like his dad
42:04and I talked to him
42:05about these things
42:06there's a lot of
42:08great traits Brian
42:09that your dad had
42:10that I hope to God
42:11you can acquire
42:13and then there are some
42:16not so much
42:18you have to learn
42:21where you draw the line
42:22use his passion
42:24use his intellect
42:25use his athletic ability
42:27use his love
42:28of the game
42:29but then
42:31don't get too far
42:32off the beaten path
42:33don't be a loose cannon
42:34Brian Jr.
42:36don't be a loose cannon
42:37the varsity law
42:39you know a lot of people
42:41oh you know
42:42do you think your dad
42:43would want to wrestle
42:44and it's like well
42:45he kind of put his stamp
42:46of approval on me
42:47to be a wrestler
42:48when he named me
42:48Brian Pillman
42:49you know
42:49there's really no
42:50going back at this point
42:51so no
42:53it's just tragic
42:54to know that
42:54we never
42:55we never got to have
42:56that ultimate
42:58father-son relationship
42:59but in a way
43:00it inspires me
43:04to be a good father
43:06one day
43:07you know
43:07so
43:07I think
43:08I think that's my goal
43:10in all this
43:11through wrestling
43:12and everything
43:13is to be a father
43:14so
43:14you know
43:19that photo
43:19is very
43:20very symbolic
43:21to me
43:21you know
43:22he's kind of
43:24holding me up
43:25and
43:25and
43:26and I always look
43:27at it
43:28for
43:28for inspiration
43:29you know
43:30so
43:30I would hope
43:32that one day
43:32I would
43:33you know
43:34have a son
43:34like that
43:35you know
43:35to kind of
43:36hold up
43:36as
43:36as the future
43:39you know
43:39it's like
43:40he's
43:40he's kind of
43:41giving me
43:41his blessing
43:41there
43:42in the photo
43:43so
43:43he contributed
43:46a whole lot
43:47to the wrestling
43:48business
43:48he pushed
43:49the envelope
43:50the loose cannon
43:51gimmick is one
43:52of the best ones
43:53ever created
43:54and
43:55Brian was one
43:56of the best
43:56friends that I had
43:57in business
43:57and I hope
43:59that he thought
43:59the same about me
44:00I love Brian
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