Eddie Kingston recently discussed the passing of his friend Kurtis ‘Mad Kurt’ Chapman in an appearance on the “ESPR” podcast.
Kingston put a focus on the importance of addressing mental illness as he feels it’s neglected in the world of professional wrestling. He said,
“It’s overlooked in the world. Not just the wrestling world. It’s looked over in any sport (Kingston said about mental health). In any part of the world. Because you know, mental health, we still got people out there that look at mental health as something fake or something not real and then we also have people take advantage of mental health stuff so, people don’t know what’s real and what’s not real. But, I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it, I know other people have seen it. I’ve lost friends who didn’t talk about it. We just recently lost a friend in Britain named Mad Kurt. Rest in peace. None of us thought anything was wrong because he was such a funny dude, such a bringer of life in the locker room, you know what I mean? You don’t see the struggle or the war people are having inside and people usually think they can do it on their own, or they’re gonna be looked down upon if they speak on it. Nah man, get yourself better dawg. That’s the way I look at things. I don’t wanna see nobody who, A, I care about or, B, someone else cares about, take their own life because they didn’t talk or they were scared to talk. There’s no reason to be scared and to me, people who make fun of it or don’t accept it, they don’t get it and that’s fine. They don’t have to get it. There’s nothing wrong with them either. But there are people there who do get it and you’ll find those people, and they’ll be there with you.”
