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[1999-10-08-ECW-TNN] Interview: Tammy Sytch


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A pretty infamous interview with Tammy Sytch which is narrated by Paul Heyman, showing clips of her in SMW and the WWF. She talks about her addiction to muscle relaxers and even says that it was pretty widespread among those in wrestling. She starts crying talking about Louie Spicolli's death. She also talks about how she was considered old by 1997 even though she was only 24 years old. She also opens up about her childhood and being suicidal, and this is a little too real for wrestling. We also know watching in 2014 that this story doesn't have a happy ending.

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You really can't get more exploitative than this. I think this was around the time Tammy and Chris were headed out of ECW after getting fired. Tammy just looked worn out from the hard life. She started looking better towards the beginning of the 2010s but soon went off the wagon again. Really sad whats happened to her. How did Heyman get the rights to air the WWF/SMW footage? Vince?

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Hard hitting anti-drugs segment, whether that was the intent or not. It's tough to believe Tammy is only 26 here. Comparing with how she looked on prior Yearbooks is alarming.

 

In general I do have some degree of sympathy with wrestlers who got addicted to painkillers. It was the only way to make it through their ridiculous work schedules and not get fired.

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Tammy looks and sounds terrible but is still trying to vaguely portray herself as a sex symbol. Not only is she slurring half her words, but her voice is shot. If I believed for two seconds that Heyman was actually trying to make a difference by airing this, I'd grudgingly credit him even though this isn't much easier to watch than the similarly-messaged Requiem for a Dream, one of the best movies no one will ever want to see twice. But we all know that Heyman's motives aren't nearly that pure. I don't know what purpose this serves, probably an attempted hamfisted recovery story, but I don't think it's about sending a message to his locker room. Dark horse Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic nominee, right here.

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