[CaptainCrunch]

This whole story is a tragic tale.



I was listening to Corny today talking with one of the creators of the Dark Side, and they noted that nobody that was interviewed said anything that was close to supportive of Tammy. Mick Foley tried but he couldn't do it. Corny talked about her in Smokey Mountain and said they were nice squeeky clean teens.



Was Tammy always what she turned out to be? Maybe not. But she was the certainly the result of a toxic wrestling industry as was Chris.



Tammy was always known as being someone that put her career first and she'd do anything to be successful, that she was tough minded, and didn't get along with the locker room in WWE. but at the end of the day, she was also a tale of being used til she was used up and spit out.



Shawn Michael's was probably a terrible influence on her. But her determination to be something drew her to him. The Locker room bullied Chris, I'm assuming it was the clique. She got hooked on the party and soma culture of the time. Went to ECW and Heyman though he tried to get her help, used her up, made her do that interview, conned her out of her money and then fired her.



I'm not saying she doesn't deserve what she is going to get, which is a long jail term which is likely. But she went from being a smart pretty premed student who Cornette described as squeeky clean, and turned her into a shambling drunk, drug addict who either didn't want or didn't believe in the help that was offered (She walked away from WWE paid treatment so many times that they gave up).


But she messed up Candido and did it badly and she deserves a lot of the blame for his downfall.



This was a really abbreviated story, The Dark side guy talked about overdoses and car accidents and domestic violence that they couldn't cover.



Bret Hart once said that the wrestling industry was brutal, that it used you up and when you were spent they took you behind the barn and shot you. The tragedy of Tammy and Chris is a prime example of that.


Even today we're seeing snippets on the Tammy side, I think Missy Hyatt and some of the other woman that were friends with Tammy talk about her reaching out from jail, asking for things like money.



Even last night after the special aired. someone who runs Tammy's website was pushing her adult videos as a way to say F you to Dark Side of the ring.