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Torrie Wilson On The Injury That Ended Her Career, Trashes Madusa, Not Interested In TNA, More
Written by Richard Gray on Apr 5, 2009 - 1:36:43 PM
- Kevin Eck of the Baltimore Sun has a new Q&A online with Torrie Wilson. Below are the highlights:
Her back injury and why she left WWE: "It's kind of a freak thing. I never thought it was a bad back injury. Every once in a while for the year leading up to when it started really getting bad, it would lock up on me and I'd be laying on my floor, on my bed, wherever, for 30 minutes at a time because I physically couldn't even move. I was in tears. I just let it go, let it go, and it got to a point where, when I had matches I was really, really scared that it would lock up while I was wrestling and I wouldn't be able to move in front of a crowd. The last straw was when I had a match, I think it was on Smackdown, and I actually went to Vince [McMahon] and Johnny Ace and said, "Look, I don't think I can wrestle. My back's been hurting me and I'm afraid it's going to lock up and I'll look like an idiot out there. And so they sent me home and I went to a specialist, who couldn't find anything at first. And then I was going to a chiropractor for about nine months. I was getting epidural shots. You name it, I tried it. It got to the point where I couldn't even bend over to pick my dogs up or tie my shoes. I ended up finally meeting this new surgeon who has this new surgery where they go through your side, and they realized that one of my discs was completely collapsed. So no matter what I was doing to try to ease the pain, nothing was going to help it unless I replaced the disc. So that's eventually what I did in May. It was shortly after that where I was getting so tired of traveling. At that point I had already opened my clothing store. I knew I wasn't going to be wrestling any more. There was no way I was going to risk hurting myself again knowing how it felt to be so crippled. I just sat back and really thought long and hard and said, "You know what, I don't think I want to do this anymore." And they completely understood. They were great about it."
What it was like training with Madusa: "Oh my God. It was pathetic. When I think back now, I was just a young kid that was scared of everybody and never really spoke my mind. I just think, what nerve she had to be dropping us on our heads and making us miserable and not wanting to wrestle. Looking back, I feel for her. She was bitter. All these new young girls that had no clue about wrestling were coming into the business and taking her spot, but I just thought she went about it all the wrong way."
When asked if she would ever get back in the ring: "Today, while I'm sitting here driving in my car, there's no way I would ever get in the ring again and take bumps. Do I want to go back to wrestling? No. But would I like to have another match? Yeah, of course I'd like to have another match. When I left I just kind of fizzled away. I didn't have a goodbye match. I don't even remember what my last match was. It would be a great experience. I do miss being out in front of that crowd a lot."
When asked if she still watches wrestling: "I hadn't watched for the longest time, and I just recently started watching here and there a little bit a few months ago. It was hard for me to watch for a long time. I felt like I was missing out on everything."
Who she still keeps in touch with: Gosh, now that Victoria quit [pauses]. Michelle McCool and Carlito I'm still really good friends with. And Chavo Guerrero. But really not very many. It seems like everybody's disappearing.
If she would be interested in working for TNA: No. Nothing against TNA, but WWE is where you would want to be in that industry. And, you know, I get anxiety going to visit my mom on a plane now because I was just traveling so much before [laughs]. So the thought of being gone even one day a week doesn't sound like something I want to do."
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