Former TNA Knockout Lacey Von Erich recently spoke with Blue Steel Cage Radio about the late Ultimate Warrior and the Von Erich family, as
well as her stint in TNA. Check it out below:
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What It Is Like To Be In WWE To TNA: If you never want to have a family or a wife
or time to yourself, and you like being verbally and mentally abused, then you
should [get into wrestling]. I say go for it. [That abuse comes more from] the
locker room. Definitely the locker room. TNA is very different than WWE. WWE
was very political. I wasn’t in there yet. They were like, “You’re a Von Erich.
You better be amazing at wrestling,” and things like that and I wasn’t.
I’m more of an actress than I
am a wrestler. I’d rather play a character than get hurt on the mat. That’s
what I’m better at. I’m better at acting. That’s what I wanted to do. Vince
called me. He’s the one that got me into this. He’s the one asked me, “Do you
want to be a wrestler? Try to be a diva?” He brought me out and I signed
the contract that night and went into training. I wasn’t expecting it to come
as much. It really blew up and they expected so much of me. But then TNA called
and they really embraced me as like a family member.
Her Earliest Memory Of The
Ultimate Warrior: My mom
was just telling me that my dad actually trained [Warrior] … I was really young
when my dad passed away. I was only 6 years old, but a lot of those memories
have been grained in my mind because of the traumatic experience I went
through. A lot of things when it comes to wrestling I don’t remember, because
when we went to wrestling matches it would be 10, 11 o’clock at night and we
would just be asleep in the stands … I remember more of Uncle Jimbo [Warrior]
off of wrestling, not actually on the mat with everyone. I remember him at his
house, and babysitting us, and things like that. It was like being babysat by
my dad. Basically the same. A lot of roughhousing. A lot of fun.
Her Thoughts On Wrestlers
Dealing With Their Personal Demons: It’s so hard to leave [wrestling]. It’s really
hard, once you leave, because no one ever understands what you went through
ever. No one will know … People screaming your name or having fans and having
those experiences together. Going from hotel to hotel, being on the road
together. No one knows those experiences, but [other wrestlers]. It really
shapes the kind of person you can be. As you can see, in the past, [with]
wrestlers, it can either shape you to be a great person and you can learn from
it and become a great wife and mother, which I hope I have. Or you can end up
self-medicating because of all that. You either get stronger or you get weaker.
And luckily I came out of it, unlike the rest of my family, a stronger, better
person.
