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He died behind bars in A devastated Angle wound up being the only member of Team Foxcatcher in the Olympics, and he dedicated himself to honoring his trainer's memory as best he could.
Considering he won gold, his best was obviously good enough. Between his father and coach, Kurt Angle had already dealt with plenty of loss. But then, on September 15, , he got yet another tragic slap in the face, with the death of his sister from a drug even worse than what he was starting to feed himself. Kurt's sister, Le'Anne, had a heroin addiction, one she succumbed to in Her devastated brother didn't talk about it publicly for a long time, until a YouTube video journal he put together to chronicle his comeback after surgery.
As he explained, he dealt with her death in roughly the same way as his father's death and his coach's: going out there and being amazing at athletics. In this case, he wrestled a scheduled one-hour match with Brock Lesnar just a day after Le'Anne's passing.
While it was an incredible match, in retrospect Angle realizes it was a pretty awful grieving mechanism. As he said in his journal, "I didn't deal with [her death]. I went out there and had one of the best matches of my life. I hid the pain. Throughout his pro wrestling career, Kurt Angle has constantly bragged about winning his gold medal "with a broken freakin' neck.
During the Olympic trials, Angle landed hard on his head, herniating two discs, cracking two vertebrae, and pulling four neck muscles. And yet, despite suffering injuries that absolutely should've knocked him out of contention, he soldiered on, winning that trial match after being down pre-injury. When he went in for his MRI the next day, his doctor ordered him to rest and heal for at least six months.
That would mean no Olympics, so Angle got a second opinion. He found a doctor who was, in his words , "either smart enough or stupid enough to allow [him] to wrestle. For normal people, wrestling with a broken-but-numb neck would be the stupidest idea ever, but Kurt Angle rode that numbness all the way to Olympic gold.
However, getting pumped that full of drugs turned into an addiction. Kurt Angle isn't the only wrestler to battle drug addiction. However, his fight's been particularly ornery, and probably should've killed him a while back.
In addition to the Olympics, Angle says he's broken his neck several times as a pro wrestler. One break in particular led him to start taking painkillers, which he unfortunately discovered he enjoyed very much. Soon, as he told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in , he found himself chowing up to 65 pills a day, of all sorts: Percocet, Vicodin, Lorcet, and more.
He even had a system where he'd go from doctor to doctor to get various prescriptions and collect pill bottles. In August , he suffered a laundry list of injuries in a match, but this time he refused to take any more pills. He apparently steered clear of them for a while — a year later he told the Tribune-Review he was still clean — and worked on cleaning his life up.
That, unfortunately, didn't last, as shortly thereafter he was on more substances than ever. During a CBS interview , Angle admits to a seven-year battle with a potentially lethal cocktail of morphine, Xanax, and alcohol, one he had only kicked about a year before. At the time, he was winning his addiction battle, though he knows drugs are too stubborn to stay down without a constant fight. Just like him. Kurt Angle's potentially lethal drug cocktail consumed his life until a few years ago and helped him rack up four DUI arrests along the way.
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