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WWE News: Bret Hart speaks about abusive father Stu, cheating on wife, doing drugs, Dynamite Kid Oct 25, 2007 - 4:22:06 PM
Bret Hart blunt and revealing new 575 page autobiography become available in Canada this week and will be openly distributed in the U.S. next year. The Canada Sun newspaper chain features an online article with highlights from the book, including the following key highlights:
-On his dad: "Stu (my father) had a temper so fierce that some would consider his corporal punishment child abuse. Too many times I limped around bruised and battered, my eyeballs red and ruptured because of his discipline. On more than a few occasions, I thought I was going to die. Corporal punishment was more common in those days. He was a product of his time, trying to deal with 12 kids all as wild and out of control as we were."
Bret Hart [artist Joseph Borzotta (c) PWTorch]
-On Dynamite Kid: "(Tom) grew lonely, dangerous and occasionally cruel. One morning as we waited to leave on the bus, Tom opened the window, calling and waving over a poor vagrant. I thought Tom was going to toss a few coins ... but instead he spit right in his face and said, 'F-- you, you dirty yellow bastard.' "
-On doing drugs in WWE: "When I was working for my Dad, I didn't have to poison my body, I didn't need it. But when I got to the WWF (World Wrestling Federation), everyone was doing it. And Dynamite and Davey Boy were making three to four times the money I was. If I didn't take them, I wouldn't have a career."
-On cheating on his wife: "My release, my amnesia, or maybe my anaesthesia, was women. Sex seemed like the lesser of all the sins that lay in wait for us. I knew for certain that this was going to be a long road ahead. I was 27 and I was never going to survive it if I didn't find some female company. I felt truly terrible about being unfaithful. It was so weird: I was on top of the world but ashamed of myself at the same time."
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