What started as partying after the shows amongst "the boys," with the Nitro Girls and everyone staying in the same hotel when traveling, soon turned into a full-blown extramarital affair.
Elizabeth ultimately divorced her second husband, Cary Lubetsky, a south Florida attorney, and decided to move in with Luger in Marietta, Georgia. The people I thought were friends were users and abusers.
Luger believes that the real problems started when he began taking opiates, which are drugs derived from the poppy plant. He then gradually began using pain killers, many times combining them with alcohol.
He readily owns up and says that they, as wrestlers, never "had to" take those pain pills, but instead they "chose to" and that through bad decisions on his own, he became addicted to drugs and alcohol and never saw it coming. He recounts the details of that tragic night, as told to Sean Mooney on his Prime Time podcast. He continues, "Right before I called , she was standing next to the microwave, and I was heating us some Boston Market meatloaf and mashed potatoes, one of our favorites.
She had gotten up to the microwave to help out, and I told her, "I got this, Liz. Sit down; I got this. Once he took her the food, Luger saw that she was unresponsive and thought she had fallen asleep. He proceeded to shake her up a little to wake her up. Still, she did not respond. I saw that her eyes were completely dilated, and right away, I knew something was really bad. Luger in a panic ran to the phone and called , and since the fire department was right down the street from his house, the paramedics were there within a couple of minutes.
Since they had arrived so quickly and were able to cart her off, Luger believed that she would make it. But while sitting in his front yard, they told him the bad news that she indeed had not pulled through. Luger then asked the police, "Am I under arrest or something?
The preliminary autopsy by the forensic investigator was done, and "everything was cool, and there was no foul play," according to Luger. They were going to let him go, but they then proceeded to tell him that there was "a twist. The twist was that they had found a lot of narcotics.
Lex Luger was charged with 13 felony counts of possession of a controlled substance and one misdemeanor count of distribution of a dangerous substance. Amongst everything, they found anabolic steroids, Oxycontin, and synthetic growth hormones, to name a few. Things go downhill and quickly.
According to Luger, when the cops arrived, he and Liz explained that the marks on her face were from walking the dogs a week prior. She had gotten tangled with the leashes of a German Shepard and a Husky puppy they owned at the time and had fallen "like a ton of bricks," and injuring her face.
Luger coined a phrase and says that he would get "Lex Lugered," referring to when for the smallest thing, an exaggerated number of cop cars would show up to his house just trying to find a way to send him to jail, according to him.
Just unbelievable. He also felt that the cops, on their numerous visits to the house, genuinely enjoyed "hanging out" because he was very well known at the time.
Luger, in turn, was not amused with dozens of cop cars constantly showing up and making a scene. The battery charges were dropped after she died. According to an explanation Luger says his lawyer gave him, the injuries were deemed abrasional and not by an impact like he was being accused of.
At the time, he estimated that he had 17 counts of felony charges based on the number of narcotics in his house. Other sources say that they were The forensic investigator then wrote, "Examination of the scalp shows no signs of injury or trauma.
It can occur in multiple ways, but one of the common reasons is when too much pressure is applied to the nerve by the surrounding tissue. Pinched nerves can lead to various issues, and for Lex Luger, it led to a spinal infarction, which led to temporary paralysis. In an interview with WWE. However, it was not thought to be too serious. He went through intravenous antibiotic treatment. The superstar was expected to make a full recovery.
Unfortunately, there were a few obstacles waiting for him. Even a month after his spinal injury, he was still in a quadriplegic state. He had no movement in any of his limbs. It took a long time for Lex Luger to recover and it was through sheer internal fortitude that he was able to overcome the struggles that came his way. In June , he was able to walk short distances with a walker. In , he was able to drive and walk long distances.
Even if Lex Luger could walk, in , he had to use wheelchairs on a regular basis. Unfortunately for the superstar, he's now completely reliant on a wheelchair to move around. What a pleasure meeting CapriceColeman. Class act. Bright future in the biz!! Lex Luger is now 63 years old and he is hardly recognizable as the same wrestler due to the spinal infarction.
Thinking it was simply a case of having sat in an awkward position for much of the cross-country flight from Atlanta, Georgia, he tried to jar his neck back into place, only to make his predicament worse.
Luger arrived in San Francisco in much pain but still able to move. He awoke the next morning, however, paralyzed from the neck down and unable to even call for help. A desperate Luger maneuvered on the hotel room floor, where he remained for more than four hours. It was just a freak accident, but it caused massive swelling from my C6 [vertebra], at the base of your neck, to my D5 in my chest.
It paralyzed me from the neck down. Luger remained a complete quadriplegic for more than two months, without as much as bladder or bowel control when he got transferred to the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Georgia in November The incident was tragic, and the prognosis bleak.
Luger, however, did not lose faith. But my recovery has been just phenomenal. In , Lex Luger is enjoying a much simpler life in Buffalo, New York, living with his mother and spending most of his free time helping others at local schools and churches. The past several years have presented difficult times for Luger and he is unfortunately wheelchair-bound.
But he has done more than progress throughout his recovery and road to redemption. And through it all, he has never forgotten his fans, with whom he continues to reconnect at wrestling conventions and on Twitter GenuineLexLuger. Even as undeserving as I was, they were a big part of my being able to move forward and put my life back together. For their support throughout my career and today, I love them and thank them.
Now 63 years old — born June 2, — Luger looks radically different after the spinal infarction robbed him of his amazing physique. Io Shirai has a great ass to say the least. The wrestler formerly known as Peyton Royce carries herself with grace and elegance, but once the bell rings, her raging-bull temperament takes over.
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