Kevin Nash has always cut a formidable figure, whether as a professional wrestler during his long tenure with the WWF (now WWE) and WCW or as an actor in films like “John Wick.” But the 64-year-old, who was inducted into both the WWE and nWo Halls of Fame, showed raw emotion on an episode of his podcast, “Kliq This,” in 2023. Nash stated during the podcast that it was 12 weeks since the death of his son, Tristen, from cardiac arrest caused by a seizure. The seizure was reportedly due to alcohol withdrawal syndrome, and Nash told Fox News in 2022 that both he and his son had recently given up drinking.
Nash alarmed listeners and podcast co-host Sean Oliver by stating, “Time flies when you got a gun in your mouth — I mean, time flies when you’re having fun.” Oliver called Nash on his statement, noting that Nash owned guns, and the former wrestling champ later admitted he was struggling with his son’s memory. “It’s so much easier to say, ‘I’m all right’ than to say, ‘You know, every morning when I wake up, the first thing that happens is, I come to the realization that instead of there being three human beings in my home, there’s now two,'” he said. “And then I sit up in the bed and I have absolutely nothing I have to do, and it’s like, ‘So why am I getting out of bed?'” Nash later told Fox News, “I would never do anything to harm myself.”
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