Cross Rhodes by Dustin Rhodes

Author:Dustin Rhodes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Wrestling Entertainment
Published: 2010-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Brian Pillman.

The next morning we flew to St. Louis for the Pay-Per-View. The routine is pretty straightforward: We land, get something to eat, and head to the arena. It was an early call because of the Pay-Per-View, so we were probably scheduled to be at the arena at least five hours before the match. As the day went on, I realized that Brian wasn’t at the arena. Finally, I told somebody to call the hotel and check on him. He had looked bad the night before, and I didn’t have a good feeling when he wasn’t where he was supposed to be, especially for such a big match. Ultimately, they found Brian dead in his hotel room.

It was shocking, but no one had much time to process the horror of it all. The show had to go on and I still had to get out there and perform. It was hard, a lot harder than it looked. All I could do was suck it up and try to tune out reality when that light went on.

A few weeks later, Terri and I did an infamous interview with Jim Ross at the corporate headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. I was really nervous about the interview. My addiction was making me paranoid. I was drinking more, and things at home were deteriorating quickly. I was never physically violent, but I had become an angry person and verbally abusive to Terri. I thought my anger was justified, but of course it wasn’t. None of it was. The drugs and alcohol triggered every one of my insecurities and magnified every slight, whether real or imagined.

In the dressing room prior to the interview, I drank several shots of Crown Royal to calm my nerves. I was ready to unload and I wanted what came out to be real. We talked about my dad and how he was never there when I was younger, or later when I was having problems in my life. I knew they wanted it to go right up the line, but I wanted it to be as powerful as possible. I wasn’t drunk, but I was comfortable enough to say anything. The atmosphere was intense because of everything going on in my personal life, particularly with Terri.

Around that time I wanted to wrestle my father on television. Vince never commented one way or another. I didn’t actually want to beat my dad, but I thought maybe it would bring closure to our issues. I’m sure Vince thought I’d do something stupid if he gave me the opportunity. It didn’t matter, though, because my dad wasn’t going to have any part of it. Even after we reconciled, I tried to appeal to my dad’s business sense. He wouldn’t even consider wrestling me. I always thought Goldust wrestling Dusty Rhodes would have been huge.

The point of the interview with Ross was to get me some sympathy, to make me a good guy. I had burned the Goldust suit on stage with Vince screaming, “Dustin, what are you doing? I gave you this character and you’re throwing it away.

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