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00:30Matt was a maniac. Maniac Matt was a very fitting name.
00:33Maniac Matt Bourne.
00:35Matt. Matt.
00:36Matt Bourne in charge right now.
00:38He fired up, brother.
00:40But he was solid.
00:42Before putting on the clown suit, Matt Bourne was a second-generation wrestler with a chip on his shoulder and
00:48something to prove.
00:49Yes, baby. That's right.
00:51But despite his success as one of the WWF's most iconic stars, Matt's bad decisions and bad habits would continue
00:58to haunt him.
01:00Everybody has problems out there in the real world. It's no different than the world of professional wrestling.
01:05I could just see him in the back having a cigarette like Krusty.
01:09Oh, yeah. I whooped his ass, didn't I?
01:12There's no silver lining here.
01:14His demons get the best of him, and it was just all downhill.
01:17When he did drugs, he was a completely different human being.
01:21He liked oxys. He liked steroids.
01:23He liked cocaine, yes.
01:24And I didn't even know he was on crack.
01:26A clown in the ring whose violent tendencies ran deeper than the grease paint.
01:31When you see a headline about Doink the Clown being on drugs, fighting, you just think he's a terrible person.
01:38I tried to make him realize that you don't have to do drugs. You don't have to get violent. We
01:42all know you're tough.
01:43Just be you.
01:44Because I did though.
01:46And in the end, his tragic death would leave some still looking for answers.
01:51Nobody wants to believe that it was an accident.
01:55I don't believe it.
01:56There was 110% foul play.
02:24God, every time I put this on, I just...
02:27It's weird.
02:28I got these mixed feelings about it, you know.
02:30I love it.
02:31You know, I mean...
02:33At one time, I thought I had the best job in the world.
02:37The bad thing about it was I was pretty ignorant.
02:40I thought, man, this is the way it's going to be.
02:42You know, I've done this, and nothing's forever.
02:46Definitely not this character, right?
02:55I mean, this is the biggest crowd in history.
02:581.2 million.
02:59Nobody wants to lose in front of that many people, Gino.
03:02Absolutely. Let's go up to Howard.
03:03At the very first WrestleMania, do you know who fought Ricky Steamboat?
03:07It was my dad, wasn't it?
03:08Yeah, I watched it.
03:09It was phenomenal.
03:10From Portland, Oregon, Matt Bourne.
03:14Matt Bourne looks in good shape himself.
03:16You know, he's a second-generation wrestler.
03:18He just...
03:20No offense to Steamboat.
03:21Like, he was obviously good.
03:22But my dad just killed it.
03:24Like, the way he hit the ropes, the way he hit the floor.
03:28Like, I actually believe that they beat each other up.
03:31Matt Bourne is not done yet.
03:33My dad loved his job.
03:35He didn't just do it to be famous.
03:37He actually loved what he did, and he was so freaking good at it.
03:40My name's Tegan Osborne, and I'm the daughter of Matt Osborne, Doink the Clown.
03:46Steamboat is.
03:47Here he comes.
03:47Wow.
03:48So, 15 feet across the ring.
03:50He got him.
03:51He got him.
03:53I actually met Matt in 93 in Elwood City.
03:58He had just gotten fired from WWE.
04:01He definitely looked rough.
04:04Looked like he partied a lot, put it that way.
04:06And when I first met him, he's like, I'm Doink the Clown.
04:10I'm like, what do you go to kids' birthday parties?
04:13And he's like, I'm a pro wrestler.
04:16And I'm like, yeah, that shit's all fake.
04:20But Matt just made it look so real to me.
04:26My name is Michelle James, and I was married to Matt Osborne until, well, until his death.
04:33We weren't together, but we were friends, and we have two kids.
04:38You know, the other women that married him married him, obviously, for the money.
04:41I didn't.
04:42Like, I loved this man.
04:44I really did.
04:45He was 37.
04:47I was 21.
04:48So, my first impressions were, wow, this guy's old.
04:51But he was still good at it.
04:53Here's Mark.
04:55Matt was hugely influential, not just to me, but by extension, anyone who ever saw my work
05:02and liked it is, in a way, admiring the work of Matt Bourne.
05:07My name is Mick Foley.
05:08I'm a three-time WWE champion, known as the hardcore legend, and Matt Bourne was a colleague
05:16and friend of mine.
05:17And I saw in him what I hoped to one day be.
05:20You don't just play a character, you inhabit the character.
05:24You had to believe it yourself.
05:26He was a second-generation wrestler.
05:29That respect had been instilled in him by his dad, Tough Tony Bourne.
05:33Tony was quite content with being a Portland wrestler, and he was proud of it.
05:37Until this day, if you say Tough Tony Bourne, everybody in Oregon knows who he is.
05:42Matt grew up with his dad, actually, because his mom and dad divorced when he was 10.
05:47He remembers the day they split up.
05:49His mom said, you go with your dad, because I don't want that little bastard.
05:54And that stayed in Matt's head probably till the day he died.
05:58He had so much anger in him and passion in him.
06:01I would consider him similar to The Incredible Hulk, yes.
06:05Like, that was just my dad.
06:06He was 6'6'1".
06:08He was just thick.
06:09His hands were thick, his neck was thick.
06:13Everything about my dad was just bigger.
06:15I don't know whether his dad's legacy helped or hindered Matt, but it was a pretty big name to live
06:22up to.
06:23It's difficult being the child of a wrestler.
06:26I'll be honest with you, it hasn't been easy being your son, being the son of Tough Tony Bourne.
06:30Okay, we got dad and his dad.
06:34Tough Tony Bourne and Matt Bourne.
06:36Yep.
06:37Two legends that are no longer here, but...
06:39This is one of my favorite pictures, because he just looks happy.
06:43Matt was solid.
06:44He was of an era where you laid it in and you made people believe.
06:51Matt made you work in the ring.
06:54The term that's come to my mind is whirling dervish.
06:57He sold pain differently, and he was in constant motion.
07:05Well, I certainly think Matt's father had an influence on making Matt tough.
07:12My name is Dr. Tom Pritchard, and I first met Matt Bourne in the early 1980s.
07:18Tommy Pritchard!
07:20Matt could be abrasive.
07:22He could be confrontational.
07:26He could be out of his mind.
07:29We were both young in the business back then, but Matt had grown up in it.
07:33He learned a lot of it through his father, but his father came up through the ranks where
07:37these guys were even more insane.
07:40So Matt's learning from his dad how to handle conflict, and not everybody would appreciate that.
07:47Well, I don't think any father could be any proud of a son, and I am of mine.
07:51After establishing himself in Portland, Matt begins a tour of the territories that make
07:56up the wrestling world, building a name and reputation across the country.
08:01Matt Bourne did the regional territories.
08:04Introducing Matt Bourne.
08:06And he got over everywhere he did.
08:07He got over in Portland.
08:09Tony Bourne and Matt Bourne.
08:11He got over in Texas.
08:12Texas heavyweight champion, Matt Bourne.
08:15He got over in Carolina's.
08:17Well, first off, I got to say, Matt Bourne and I, from the time I met him, did not get
08:21along.
08:22He was a bully, in my opinion.
08:24Oh!
08:25Hey, folks.
08:26I'm WWE Hall of Famer, Hexar Jim Duggan, from the golden age of wrestling.
08:33Hexar Jim Duggan!
08:36Mid-South at that time was a snake pit of tough guys.
08:39And back then, six-man tags were pretty big.
08:42The Freebirds were really, really hot.
08:44Of course, the Von Erichs were hot.
08:46So, Bill Watts decided to put together a six-man tag.
08:50And, of course, he had two second-generation guys with Matt Bourne and DiBiase.
08:55And he obviously saw something in me and put me with those guys who were already pretty
09:00established and formed the Rat Pack.
09:03One for all, all for one.
09:04We're the Rat Pack, man.
09:05Every night, you're throwing punches, you're blocking punches, you're getting potatoed.
09:09We weren't the babyface heels or the crybaby heels.
09:13We were the kick-butt heels.
09:14It's busted loose again!
09:16All three were incredible performers, incredible workers.
09:20Though they didn't have a chance against us.
09:23Matt seemed to have a lot going for him.
09:26But he was always fighting those demons.
09:30This Bourne is a very aggressive wrestling.
09:32Oh, beautiful suplex!
09:34I only knew Matt Bourne through reputation.
09:38Hi, this would be Brian Blair, a retired professional wrestler.
09:41I heard that Matt was a product of the Portland Territory.
09:46That's about all I knew about Matt.
09:48Until we had met in this bar.
09:52The place was packed full of the boys.
09:54And Matt comes up to me, Matt Bourne now.
09:56He's new in the Territory.
09:58And he comes up to me and he says,
09:59Hey, why are you messing with my girl?
10:01I looked at Matt and I said,
10:04I'm not messing with your girl, Matt.
10:05I don't have a girlfriend here.
10:07I don't know what you're talking about.
10:09And he seemed like he was a little, you know, jacked up.
10:11You know, just very big eyes.
10:14And I kind of think that Matt wanted to establish himself as a tough guy.
10:18And he thought that I was going to be the guy that he was going to establish himself on.
10:24So all of a sudden I turn around and boom, Matt hits me from behind and he goes to suplex
10:30me.
10:30And when he did, I turned in midair and landed on top of him.
10:35And when I was on top of Matt, he grabbed my ears and he's pulling my head down.
10:40He's got his teeth wide open.
10:42I can still see his teeth.
10:44You know, he's getting ready to bite my nose.
10:47And as he goes to bite my nose, I saw his lip sticking out.
10:51So I went down and bit his bottom lip right off and spit his lip off.
10:56And so I'm on top of him and, you know, I punch him and he's like a zombie.
11:01And I thought it was over.
11:03A few minutes later, he comes back, jumps on me again.
11:08Oh, I wind up beating him up really good this time.
11:12I mean, I hammered this guy.
11:13How he ever got up, I don't know.
11:16He was live.
11:17I mean, all the way live.
11:18This was unhuman.
11:19And a little while it goes by now and people are buying me drinks and they're laughing.
11:25And all of a sudden, I can't believe it.
11:27Frickin' Matt jumps on me again.
11:29He's all bandaged up.
11:31This time, as I'm trying to drag him towards the door, he hooked my right leg somehow and I fell
11:38forward.
11:39And as I fell forward, I felt him on my back.
11:43And then I felt a hand, like, reaching for my eyeball.
11:50And there's Ivan Koloff right at the doorway.
11:54And Ivan kicked Matt's hand and said, no eyes.
11:57Which I'm very grateful for because Matt could have pulled my eyeball out.
12:02I mean, he was like electricity.
12:04He was bleeding all over the place, from his eyes, from his nose, from his mouth.
12:08I guess if you have the right drugs in you, they can obviously make you superhuman because that was not
12:15a human.
12:17Matt's violent behavior outside the ring is already causing problems with his co-workers.
12:22But an incident at ringside will bring his time in the Rat Pack to an end.
12:27Matt Bourne would rather get in there and kick somebody in the teeth.
12:30He's a man who has been well-schooled.
12:31That was Monroe, Louisiana, coming out of the ring.
12:35And again, I'm 280 pounds.
12:37I'm jacked up.
12:38I'm pushing 505 on the bench.
12:39I'm blowing up.
12:40I'm blowing snot and steam and sweat.
12:43I'm coming out of the ring.
12:44I just got done kicking butt.
12:45I'm going through the crowd.
12:47Boom!
12:48I get popped.
12:49We were bad guys.
12:50People didn't like us back then, brother.
12:52They hated us, you know.
12:53Boom!
12:54I popped the guy right back.
12:55He went down.
12:56I kept on going.
12:58But when he went down, Matt put a boot to him.
13:00Broke his right front orbital lobe.
13:04I kicked him so hard his eyeball fell out.
13:16Following a match in Monroe, Louisiana,
13:19Matt Bourne takes an altercation with a fan in the crowd too far.
13:24So the guy, he sued me, he sued Matt, and he sued the company.
13:29And I asked him, I said, did you go to jail?
13:32He was like, no, I didn't get in trouble at all.
13:34Matt got fired.
13:35Duggan was kept.
13:36And I think that's where the hard feelings might have come out on Matt's side.
13:40Bill Watts used me as an example.
13:43This is how you take care of the business, you know.
13:45And I was gone, you know.
13:47All of a sudden, I was a bad guy.
13:49Though Matt leaves Mid-South under a cloud,
13:52his talent and connections land him a job with the World Wrestling Federation.
13:57But less than a year into his contract,
13:59he's fired once again, this time for drug use.
14:02I don't think Matt ever wrestled sober.
14:05He was always snorting coke.
14:07I mean, he'd have to start his day smoking weed.
14:09Maybe sometimes pain pills if he had them.
14:12I think it's the lifestyle.
14:14You know, they would go out and drink.
14:15Well, that would lead to this, or let's try that.
14:20In spite of the setback, Matt lands on his feet again
14:23as he's hired by Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling
14:26and given a gimmick inspired by his Northwest roots.
14:30Big Josh was a lumberjack.
14:32That was his character.
14:33He was kind of a bad guy, but yet in a sweet way.
14:37My name is Maria, and I am Matt Bourne's ex-wife from way back when.
14:42I was with a friend of mine, and we were at a match.
14:45And Matt evidently sent one of the security guys out to get me.
14:49He said he wanted to meet me.
14:50So I went back, and he introduced himself
14:53and invited my girlfriend and I out for a drink.
14:57He seemed nice.
14:58He was very cordial.
15:00It was pretty fast.
15:01It was probably within about three months that he asked me to move down.
15:06So I quit my job, and I moved.
15:08And, you know, I want the whole thing.
15:09I want the wife, the kids, things like that.
15:12What was Matt's emotional state when, like, his first daughter was born?
15:15Well, I was to be induced in the hospital,
15:19so I had an appointment to go in at 10.30 in the morning.
15:22Matt went out the night before and never came home.
15:25He showed up just before my daughter was born.
15:28Hi.
15:29A little drunk.
15:31But he showed up.
15:32When he was with WCW, he had an offer from Vince McMahon,
15:36so he took that job.
15:38With a second chance at the WWF,
15:41Matt lands yet another opportunity to reinvent himself.
15:44From what I understand, they created Doink together.
15:48Doink was a clown.
15:51Doink was a crazy-looking clown with green hair.
15:55When I first heard of how Doink the Clown came about,
15:58I thought it made perfect sense because Hawk from the Road Warriors was looking at Matt,
16:04because Matt, you know, smoking a cigarette after his match,
16:07boot half-unlaced, his hair all a mess, and he's sweating,
16:10and it's like, we've got our own Krusty over there.
16:13Krusty the Clown.
16:18It's not what I would think of an ideal character for a wrestler,
16:22but it seemed to take off pretty good.
16:26As far as technical wrestling is concerned,
16:28knowing holds, knowing counters and what have you,
16:30Doink is right up there with the best of them.
16:32Doink the Clown, considered one of the greats,
16:34but white dress up in this ridiculous-looking outfit.
16:36What does that get you?
16:37I think the little ones were scared, like this evil but happy clown.
16:42Demented clown, I mean, a demented clown ought to be kind of a scungy son of a bitch,
16:47you know what I mean?
16:47I've been around enough guys in the wrestling business that I know how to portray that.
16:50I can't criticize anybody with a two-by-four and a ho.
16:56Whatever works.
16:58I mean, and Doink got over pretty good.
17:00As soon as I heard that Matt Bourne was going to WWE,
17:04not as a clown, but as an evil clown,
17:07I thought, he's going to sink his teeth into this.
17:10Doink the Clown having fun!
17:12If they don't have a sense of humor, that's their problem.
17:15If I laugh, that's all that matters.
17:17It was the best character he ever did.
17:19Doink was his favorite.
17:21My dad was just goofy.
17:22He looked scary, but he was like a big, goofy teddy bear.
17:26So that also probably helped him do Doink,
17:28because I see some of that when he wrestles.
17:31And I'm like, damn, I don't think that's Doink, I think that's my dad.
17:34He would just look in the mirror and kind of practice saying this and saying that.
17:38I am no more than an instrument of nature, a product of my environment.
17:45It was a gimmick, but Matt breathed life into this gimmick.
17:50I did not like a lot of what WWE was doing at that time, but I did like Doink the
17:55Clown.
17:56And Doink, oh!
17:58Forget about it.
17:59Well, by God, I may be a clown, but I'm going to rub your face on the mat.
18:04I'm going to beat you up, and it's going to be funny to me.
18:12WrestleMania 9, it was freaking phenomenal.
18:15Doink is wrestling.
18:16Doink the Clown!
18:17He's losing, he keeps trying to go underneath the stage,
18:19and all of a sudden, this other Doink the Clown pops up.
18:25They beat the shit out of Crush at the end, and I'm like, holy shit,
18:29like that came out of nowhere, and then they did the mirror.
18:31He felt like, you don't know why Vince did that.
18:34He felt like he was being set up for failure.
18:37Man, he was right, though.
18:39He caught it.
18:41As Doink the Clown rules the WrestleMania ring,
18:44the inner struggles of Matt Bourne will soon bring his turn in the spotlight to an end,
18:48even as Doink lives on.
18:57As Matt Bourne enjoys the highest levels of wrestling fame,
19:00his demons threaten to destroy everything he's worked to create.
19:04There were times when he would take off, go somewhere,
19:09didn't see him for three or four days.
19:11It happened a lot.
19:13He was fired for drug abuse.
19:15He tested dirty, and Vince let him go.
19:18Matt tried to blame everyone else except himself for that,
19:22but I wasn't surprised.
19:25We were staying in Boston and smoking some weed in the hotel,
19:30and I was fired, period.
19:33Why was I doing the drugs?
19:34That's what I did.
19:35That's what addicts do.
19:37As he would tell it, he lost his job, and I left him because he no longer had his job,
19:42but that wasn't the case.
19:45He started to get really angry and drank a lot more.
19:51He seemed to be going out a lot more, and I did know he was doing a lot of coke.
19:56He became very physically abusive to me and my daughter.
20:00He was sitting on the couch.
20:01He was a smoker, and he was just complaining and bitching about this and that,
20:07and then he would just take cigarettes, and he was throwing these cigarettes,
20:10lit cigarettes at me.
20:11You know, and he came over, and he grabbed me and pulled me off the chair
20:15with my daughter in my arms.
20:16She was only a couple months old.
20:18She went flying, and that's when I knew I can't do this, and I can't do this to her.
20:22And I packed her up, clothes on her back, one bag, and drove off.
20:27I tell people the story, and they're like, what?
20:30Really?
20:30You were what?
20:31You were married to who?
20:33A lot of people, when you tell them that, they're impressed,
20:35and it's like, you know, don't be impressed.
20:37It's not a good story.
20:39Not a good story at all.
20:41I mean, he literally had a million-dollar home being built.
20:44They had just moved into it.
20:46He had his bathtub engraved with 18-karat gold, doink.
20:50He was still proud of doink, but he really struggled.
20:53At the end of the day, I know deep down it killed him because he knew he was good,
20:57and it got up over drugs.
20:59The day he went home, as he got fired, he said he stayed up for eight days straight and did
21:06nonstop coke and started hallucinating because he couldn't believe he lost everything he just gained.
21:13Though Matt Bourne has been fired, the character of Doink the Clown makes his return at the very next show.
21:20Only this time, there's another wrestler under the grease paint.
21:24A character cannot usually be readily replaced.
21:28But in this case, I think the sentiment was he's a clown.
21:31We'll put someone else in the exact same makeup.
21:34And it was successful, as portrayed by Steve Kern and later by Ray Apollo.
21:39But it was, oh, it was never as good as it was when Matt wore the paint.
21:44They figured since Steve did this with Matt, that maybe he could pull it off.
21:49Then they brought Dink, because they were trying to keep it alive.
21:53I mean, Doink the Clown and Dink, they were mainstays.
21:57You can stick anybody in the Doink suit, and it's a great character that way.
22:01So Matt came and gone, and a lot of folks don't even realize he came and gone.
22:05And that's when he went way down.
22:08How he came to Elwood City, I don't know, because it's such a small town, but it was meant to
22:13be.
22:13That's where he met my mom.
22:15He worked for a telemarketing company right around the corner.
22:18He went from a millionaire to us, you know, like just making a weekly check.
22:24And it didn't work with him up there.
22:27He had some issues, you know, with his alcohol and his drug addiction,
22:32which he didn't do in front of me, but I still knew there was something weird about him, right?
22:37You know, he paid the rent, he paid the bills.
22:39He didn't want me working.
22:41He didn't want me socializing.
22:43Not too many men talked to me, put it that way.
22:46And that's the way Matt wanted it.
22:48He knew what he was doing.
22:49One night we were at a bar, and my ex-boyfriend ended up walking in
22:53and came up and spit on me for some reason.
22:56And I saw Matt coming at him, and I'm like, dude, you need to run.
23:00Well, Matt picked him up by his earlobes, legit earlobes, off the ground.
23:04And was screaming in his face, spitting all over him because he didn't have his two teeth here.
23:08The guy went out, got in his car.
23:10Matt had the back of his car lifted up.
23:14The two wheels off the ground, spinning like crazy.
23:16And he's holding the car there.
23:19And the cops came.
23:20They maced him, tased him.
23:22I'm like, might want to shoot him in the leg.
23:24He's not going to stop.
23:26So then they'd put him in jail, and he kept telling him,
23:29take your badge and your guns off, fight me like a man.
23:32And that's when he ripped the sink out.
23:34And the jail cell, like, literally ripped it out of its plumbing.
23:38Stripped of the beloved character he'd brought to life,
23:41Matt returns to the wrestling business.
23:43But the business has changed.
23:45Nobody wanted Maniac Matt Bourne.
23:48Nobody wanted Pig Josh the Lumberjack.
23:50They all wanted Doink.
23:51I mean, he still had the costume.
23:53He knew how to put the makeup on.
23:55He could do it himself.
23:56Matt even takes his Doink character to the last place anyone would expect a clown,
24:01the violent renegade company known as Extreme Championship Wrestling.
24:06This is ECW.
24:08That clown is in the wrong place.
24:10I was in ECW when Matt Bourne came in.
24:13And it was effective because, on the surface, ECW fans hated it because it was Doink the Clown.
24:19This is ECW!
24:23But underneath that hatred, there was that level of respect because he was Matt Bourne.
24:30How does it feel to live in my hands?
24:35I think the Born Again gimmick was half clown, half Matt Bourne.
24:41Vince McMahon found out he was on all these independent promoter's cards because it was his copyright.
24:48It was.
24:48So Vince McMahon sent legal papers.
24:52When we created that thing, I had to sign the copyrights over to Vince.
24:56You know, I was kind of bitter about it.
24:57They had never sent me any residual money for all my dolls and videos and stuff,
25:02which I was supposed to get a piece of.
25:04So I had countersued him for my residuals.
25:07Midwest Torre Torre Wrestling!
25:10It's the best!
25:12So Vince was like, all right, that's fair.
25:15You can't use Doink and you get your residuals every month.
25:19As Matt struggles to rebuild his career,
25:22his home life is upended by the arrival of two more children.
25:25I can remember when Tegan was born, he looked at her and he looked at me and he said,
25:30she's going to be something someday.
25:32And he adored her.
25:33And of course, his boy, my son, Matthew, he adored him too.
25:38Because that was his second chance.
25:40He had two other kids.
25:41He didn't get to see them.
25:43He didn't get to raise them.
25:44But me and him, when we ended up having two kids, they were his life.
25:49I just try to remember the good times.
25:52And when he was clean, he was a completely different human being.
25:56I mean, he was so put together, has nothing negative to say.
26:01I mean, he was my dad.
26:03I think he thought, I got to bring myself back because I'm not myself anymore.
26:07Like, I'm a wrestler.
26:08That's what I do.
26:10Though striving to reclaim his glory in the wrestling industry,
26:14Matt's battles with addiction continue to threaten his aspirations.
26:24Though Matt struggles to be a good father and family man,
26:28his ongoing issues with drugs and alcohol make him unpredictable and dangerous.
26:33He went and got clean a few times and I stood by his side the whole time
26:38because everybody else just washed him away like he was nothing.
26:41If he was on too much drugs or too much alcohol,
26:44he would just get very violent, mean, and be crazy.
26:49If I could be upstairs sleeping with my son, he'd be like,
26:52why were you out tonight with so-and-so?
26:55I'm like, what?
26:57I thought, this guy needs help.
26:58Like, I just can't turn my back on him.
27:00He got me one time, super good.
27:03He went to the gym.
27:04He would go to the gym for like two, three hours a day.
27:07So I was just reading the newspaper on our couch.
27:10He walked up the steps, accused me of cheating on him.
27:13The next I know, I'm in the hospital.
27:16He beat me up real good.
27:17I couldn't see for two weeks.
27:19My eyeballs were shut.
27:20He broke my nose.
27:21And yes, you're probably going to say, why did you go back with him?
27:25Down in my heart, like the next day, he saw me after he got out of jail.
27:30He was like, what happened to your face?
27:32Did I do that?
27:33He literally don't remember any of it.
27:36He said, I am truly, truly sorry.
27:40And I forgave him.
27:42As Matt's drug use becomes even more extreme, his downward spiral intensifies.
27:48Him and my mom fought, you know, he loved to drink.
27:51And when he drank, he said some really effed up shit.
27:54Finally, one day, I don't know what it was.
27:56I grabbed both their hands.
27:58I said, Matt, I can't do this anymore.
28:00I have been here through thick and thin with you.
28:04I said, I'm not taking anything with me.
28:06I am done.
28:08She hurried up, packed the bag.
28:10She was scared.
28:10I remember her being so scared.
28:12And I walked out the door and he didn't come after me because I thought he was going to.
28:16I thought, Jesus, if this is going to be the day, he's going to kill me.
28:19And he went, I understand.
28:22And he let me go.
28:24It takes a lot of balls to leave somebody like that when they don't have the ability to get clean
28:29or get better.
28:31Strung out and landing at rock bottom, Matt's behavior in the ring becomes as unpredictable as his behavior at home.
28:39When Matt didn't like you, it was a wrap.
28:42And he's not going to let it go.
28:43Like, he's that type of person to not let anything go.
28:48We're up in White Plains, New York.
28:50And to look on the board, I'm working with Matt.
28:52Oh, cool.
28:53You know, hey, Matt, how's it going?
28:54He goes, well, actually, how about I come out?
28:55I hit you with a chair.
28:57You hit me with a two by four.
29:00I'm like, Matt, there's 100 people out there, brother.
29:02I'll come out, I'll cheer USA.
29:04We'll have a nice walk and talk.
29:05Jim had something he did that was and still is effective.
29:09And Matt wanted more.
29:11It so happens that my opponent tonight, we go way, way, way, way back.
29:18Long story short, we're in the ring and he gave me a nut shot.
29:23All right, gentlemen.
29:24The referee tried to hurt me.
29:25Hacks on going to work.
29:26It's a shoot.
29:27All right, gentlemen.
29:28So I rolled up.
29:29I push him in the corner and I'm asking him, do you want to work or do you want to
29:32shoot,
29:32brother?
29:33Let's go.
29:34You want to work?
29:35You want to fight?
29:36You want to work?
29:36Tell me.
29:37He rolls out of the ring and grabs a chair.
29:39Well, I got my two by four.
29:40So I tell the referee, I said, you know, tell him we'll finish it in the dressing room like
29:43you're supposed to do.
29:45So I wait and I wait and I wait.
29:47You know, Matt, he came out of the ring, went right out the fire exit, got in his car and
29:51left.
29:51It was pre-planned attack.
29:54You have to make a real attempt at not liking Hacksaw Jim Duggan.
30:01He's not a divisive personality in our business.
30:04Like, everybody likes Jim Duggan.
30:07Like, you know, for him to make that move for 30 years after the incident, that's carrying
30:16a grudge.
30:18By 2013, Matt has moved to Plano, Texas, where he lives with a new girlfriend.
30:22I met Matt in 1988, 89, and I was actually me, Nurse Cratchit.
30:29Here comes Nurse Cratchit.
30:31I would just, you know, bing him with my bedpan, knock him out.
30:37Hi, my name is Connie Cook, and I was Matt Bourne's girlfriend.
30:40He was crazy.
30:42I was crazy.
30:43And we just hit it off.
30:462011, he found me on Facebook.
30:48Then he just never left my side.
30:50I loved him, and I wanted to make it work.
30:53That's why I moved to Texas.
30:55Some days it was good, some days it wouldn't.
30:58After I moved to Texas, I was stressing about my mom.
31:01She was very sick, and he took care of my mom.
31:04He cooked for her.
31:05He gave her her medicine.
31:06I knew he had my back, and I definitely had his.
31:11It was June of 2013, and I was getting up for softball practice.
31:15My mom texted me and said, I think your dad's dead.
31:18Because we saw it on TMZ.
31:20My mom said she called my dad's cell phone, and Connie answered the phone.
31:24She was, like, crying hysterically.
31:26My mom said, what the f*** happened, Connie?
31:29I said, Connie, do not tell me he's dead.
31:33I know Connie killed my dad.
31:35I will never not think that she did.
31:37And she took him away from me, and I hate her for it.
31:46At home in Elwood, Michelle and Tegan are shocked to learn that Matt has passed.
31:51Tragic news confirmed by a phone call with Matt's girlfriend, Connie Cook.
31:56I said, okay, so, like, what happened?
31:59She goes, well, he stole all my mom's drugs.
32:02And she said, yeah, he's dead.
32:04And I'm thinking, oh, my God, this wasn't in the cards.
32:06How am I supposed to take care of these kids, right?
32:09They were 12 and 15.
32:12Sorry, getting emotional.
32:14But it changed everything in our lives.
32:17Everything.
32:19The night before my dad died, my mom was on the phone with him,
32:22and he said, Michelle, I called you because I'm leaving Connie.
32:26He went, I told the crazy b***h I'm leaving her.
32:28I said, oh, Jesus Christ.
32:30We giggled, and then he went, well, you know what?
32:33If anything does happen to me, Michelle, don't let it go.
32:36I said, Matt, what are you talking about?
32:38Why did you say that?
32:40He went, seriously, just don't let it go.
32:43The day that all this happened, he was moaning in the kitchen.
32:49And I was like, what is wrong with you?
32:51Nothing.
32:52So then he does it again, moans again.
32:55And so he turns around and falls to his knee,
32:58and he grabbed my hand and goes, marry me.
32:59I said, oh, my God, you're really on my nerve right now.
33:03I think he may have been having a heart attack,
33:05and he just wouldn't tell me.
33:07And he wore glasses.
33:09And so he was like, Connie, I can't find my glasses.
33:12So I go read Tracy Stapp's kitchen, my mom's bedroom.
33:17Well, I noticed that one of the bottles was moved.
33:20And I was like, Matt, that medicine is from hospice.
33:25I was like, we're going to be in trouble
33:27if you don't tell me where those are.
33:29And he said to me, well, I guess I'll just go to jail.
33:33And I was like, that's just crazy.
33:35So I go to bed, and later on, I don't even know what time it was,
33:39I hear somebody beating on the door.
33:40And there's a girl at the door.
33:42She was like, my brothers found your husband laying on the ground outside.
33:46Now they think he's dead.
33:48It was like a gated community kind of place
33:51where everybody could see everything that's going on in your life.
33:55And there was witnesses.
33:57They saw him.
33:58He was stumbling, falling over air conditioners.
34:01He was bruised.
34:02So I heard sirens, and I was like, Matt, you need to get up
34:05because I think someone's called the police on you
34:08for being drunk out here because they said you were on the ground.
34:11So we get him to his feet.
34:13We set him down in the recliner by the door.
34:15That time, I didn't know he was ODing.
34:18Well, I went in and got in the bed, and I could hear him snoring.
34:21So I didn't think anything was wrong with him because he snored.
34:24You were watching him overdose, and you did nothing.
34:28If you saw someone puking in their mouth and gagging on it,
34:32wouldn't you think there was something wrong?
34:34According to Plano police reports, on the morning Matt died,
34:38Connie awoke at 6.30 a.m. and saw Matt gurgling and foaming at the mouth.
34:43After calling her friend, Connie went back to bed.
34:46At 9 a.m., two and a half hours after she first woke up, Connie called 911.
34:52We're going to address really specifically some of these allegations
34:57that once Matt was already in the house and you put him down in the recliner
35:01that you heard gurgling.
35:02What did you do next?
35:04That was like early in the morning.
35:06My alarm usually went off 6 o'clock, 6.30.
35:09I heard him all night snoring.
35:11But when I came out of the bedroom, there's something coming out of his nose.
35:15And so I grabbed the rag, and I was like,
35:17Hey, you need to get up.
35:19That's nasty.
35:20And he was making a different noise.
35:23So I called my friend in Tennessee, and I leaned over the counter
35:28and was trying to let her listen to it.
35:30And I said, Do you hear that?
35:31She said, Connie, that's a death rattle.
35:33She was like, Hang up right now and call 911.
35:36It's not like I just left him sitting there.
35:39I mean, it might have been five minutes until I called my friend.
35:43I didn't go back to bed.
35:44Because it wasn't until 9 that you called 911.
35:48No, they had that wrong.
35:50I didn't go back to bed.
35:51As soon as I hung up talking to her, I called 911.
35:55And they snatched him up and put him on the gurney,
35:58trying to get the thing down his throat.
36:00And they were like, We got to go now.
36:01I mean, Dude was on top of him, pounding on him.
36:04I'm just like, Now I'm really freaking out.
36:06And then the detective came in and I told her what I knew.
36:10We went in the room.
36:11She found the bottle.
36:12I think there was maybe 30 missing out of the bottle.
36:15So I don't know how many he actually had taken.
36:19So I left and went to the hospital and went and saw him.
36:26So I'm screaming at Matt to get up.
36:28And then they were trying to make me leave.
36:30And I literally wouldn't leave the room
36:32because they were trying to put him in the dark.
36:34And Matt hated the dark.
36:37What was the official cause of Matt's death?
36:41Overdose of hydrocodone and morphine and an enlarged heart.
36:47Connie believes Matt's heart issues were a secret he had kept for a very long time.
36:53When he was in WWF, he went to the hospital because he was having, I guess, chest pains.
37:00And so they hooked him up to an EKG machine.
37:03I think they wanted to do something, but Matt never did.
37:08And then when he passed away, I called the coroner's office to find out exactly what they found out.
37:16His heart was six times the normal size.
37:19And I was like, what does that mean?
37:20They were like, substance abuse, stress.
37:23I think he worried about it, but he just didn't tell nobody about it.
37:26I called the ambulance when I realized that there was something wrong with him.
37:31I did everything to help him.
37:34With his backstory, and he has a track record for being on drugs,
37:38on his death certificate, it was accidental overdose.
37:42Of course, it's easy to put that down because of who he was.
37:44But no.
37:45When I hung up with him, she was about to bring him out a drink.
37:48He probably got a thing of crown.
37:50She mixed some liquid morphine in there, and he's probably up out of his mind.
37:54And he sat on the recliner.
37:56He laid there and died all night, and he was foaming out the mouth.
37:59I'm confused.
38:00Why'd you wait all night to call 911?
38:02There was foul play.
38:04I'm just, I'm just flabbergasted that someone wouldn't even think that of me.
38:08I feel horrible.
38:09I'm horrified that that child would think that.
38:12The allegations are crazy.
38:13They're not true.
38:14I did not kill him.
38:15I did not put anything in his drink.
38:17I love him.
38:18I still love him to this day and still wish that he was here.
38:22Why would I want to kill him?
38:24And if it meant me dying and leaving here for him to be alive, I would be dead and he
38:29would be here.
38:30An investigation by the Plano Police Department found no evidence of any criminal conduct, no evidence that Matt Bourne was
38:39deliberately drugged with liquid morphine by Connie Cook, and no evidence of negligence in her response to Matt Bourne's overdose.
38:53On June 28th, 2013, Matt Bourne, known to wrestling fans as Doink the Clown, dies.
39:00According to the autopsy, it was from an overdose of opiates.
39:04I remember that day very vividly going into that funeral home, and my brother, like, that was his first funeral
39:10ever.
39:11He was like, why is he so cold?
39:12And I lost it.
39:14I mean, it was, that was, that was really tough.
39:15The worst thing of all this was watching them to look over their dad in that casting.
39:24And there was nothing I could do, a hug, a kiss, nothing that I could take away their pain.
39:30You know, I'm not going to lie to you, it's been, it's been terrible.
39:33I mean, I struggled with depression for a little bit, I lost a lot of friends, and I kind of
39:38felt like my dad in that moment, now that I look back at it, he lost so many people because
39:42of his actions.
39:43And it was like, damn, now I know how this dude felt.
39:46No wonder why he did drugs, because he felt like shit all the time.
39:52I heard comments that people have made about me, you know, that the reason I got Doink over it is
39:57because I'm a sick mother f***er, I need some serious help.
40:00There's times I think that too, you know, but who isn't, you know, I mean, come on.
40:06If you're not getting into the ring with some jabroni that puts on some clown outfit and calls himself Doink,
40:14it's Matt Bourne.
40:15Matt lived fast and hard, and so it did not come as a shock when I learned that Matt had
40:22passed.
40:24He seemed to have a lot going for him.
40:27Come on, come on!
40:27But ultimately, Matt's biggest adversary was not a wrestler, but his demons, from a substance standpoint.
40:37And the temperament issue he struggled with.
40:42His legacy is of a guy who willingly gave more to the wrestling business than it gave back.
40:52And a guy whose weaknesses were exploited by the nature of the beast.
40:58Constant travel, the strain on relationships, the pain involved that opens the door to medication.
41:06Matt Bourne meant a lot to wrestling, and to anyone who saw Matt at his best, which was not in
41:13the national spotlight, but in those regional territories.
41:16And Bourne rolls him back.
41:19He connected, and he made a difference.
41:22This picture is actually two weeks before Matt passed with his son Matthew at the airport leaving.
41:31Very sad.
41:32Yeah, Matthew was always sad when Dad left.
41:33Yeah, it tore him up.
41:34This picture is one of my favorites, because it's one of the last I got with him.
41:38But this picture, he was like, come on, T, we've got to get one picture before I leave.
41:43And I'm like, all right.
41:44This is one of my favorites.
41:45And his big hands back there, too.
41:47It looks like a spider, but it's Matt's huge-ass hand.
41:51Sad to see him go.
41:52This is all we have left of him.
41:54Yep.
41:55We all have these troubled souls.
41:57We're all troubled souls, if we look at it honestly.
42:00But Matt had talent.
42:02Matt had a legacy.
42:03He made Doink the Clown bigger than it ever should have been, in my opinion.
42:07And that gets covered up by some of his transgressions outside the ring.
42:12From time to time, when Matt had a few drinks, he would open up about the pain of being an
42:21absentee dad, and I really think that bothered Matt.
42:25Yeah, he had a lot of regrets about marriages, about his kids, and I've seen that firsthand.
42:32I never gave up on him through all that bad stuff we did go through.
42:36I knew he was a good person.
42:38The horrible things that my kids read about their dad, oh, just Doink was a drug addict.
42:45He was a piece of shit, washed-up wrestler, that he was not that.
42:49Yes, he did do his share of drugs, and he did make mistakes, just like every other human being.
42:54But I just want people to know that that's not what he was.
42:58I want him to be remembered as a great father.
43:01He wanted to raise those two kids.
43:05I miss him.
43:06I'm not going to lie.
43:08But they miss him way more.
43:11One thing my mom always told me, she's like, well, Tegan, when you were born, your dad said
43:15she's going to be something someday.
43:17And every time my mom says that, it makes me feel like he's still here a little bit.
43:20And I'm like, I mean, I'm not no Doink the Clown.
43:23I'm not no famous wrestler.
43:25But when I graduated college, I graduated with almost a 4.0.
43:28I graduated magna cum laude, took these CPA exams that were so hard, got a job right out of college.
43:35I'm a certified public accountant.
43:37And then you just get the little negative part where I'm like, damn, like, he should be here.
43:43We had our little rough patches.
43:45We butted heads.
43:46And now that I'm getting older, I realize we butted heads so much because we were so much alike.
43:51And now I wish I could just say, you know what, Dad, I'm sorry.
43:54It wasn't perfect, but he was my dad.
43:55So
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