2. SEAN WALTMAN
The 1-2-3 Kid, Syxx, X-Pac… whatever you choose to call him, Sean Waltman has been through an awful lot. He recently opened up about the sexual abuse he endured as a child and how much it has affected his life, feeling ashamed and never wanting to come forward to the authorities about what had happened until well into his late 20s.
He never made it past the eighth grade and went straight into professional wrestling at the age of fifteen, where he developed a serious drug habit as a result (primarily crystal meth, on top of many other hard drugs).
He also spoke openly with Stone Cold Steve Austin on his attempted suicide while living in Mexico after he had punched his then-girlfriend Alicia Webb “across the room,” which led to Waltman taking 40 pills of Valium and washing it down with a bottle of rum before hanging himself in his rooftop garden. Webb would discover Waltman and was able to save his life “mere minutes before death,” and as a result his close friend Kevin Nash personally flew to Mexico and shipped him off to a rehab clinic in Houston, Texas, a facility that he says was a major factor in turning his life around.
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