Post by danedynamite on Jan 26, 2008 11:54:36 GMT -5
The screen fades in and is in black and white,
On Growing Up:
"Growing up in Virginia wasn't easy, growing up in my household didn't make it any easier Dad being away around the country half the time and when he was home he would be on some much stuff that he wasn't really my Dad just a shell, the only emotion us kids would get from him were anger!"
Lauren takes a moment to compose herself and then she continues
"He never hit myself or my sisters, but he hit mom and my brother. Maybe he didn't hit us because we were younger, I don't know. I knew my brother was difficult and troublesome so maybe dad would hit him because it was the only way to control him. I found watching this hard as it continued for a long time throughout his in ring career and sometime afterward. Although to this day he never admitted I knew he took stuff that wasn't good for him at all, during my teens he went away and I am certain this was for rehab although when I ask my mom she denied it and said dad was working."
Lauren gave a somewhat uneasy smile
"I knew my dad wasn't working he knew nothing besides wrestling so finding other work was hard for him, as bless him but he was never really the sharpest knife in the drawer. It was as this time I started to take an interest in the wrestling business and I suppose after I saw Justin training to follow in dad's footsteps. I asked my dad about it since he was the only person I knew in it, and his words that I remember to this day, 'Lauren you are too small to wrestle and it's no place for young girls end of discussion!'"
Lauren cleared her throat and took a sip of water.
On Training for wrestling:
"Without my dad knowing I started training twice a week full body workout, at the time I had no clue and pretty much all that got stronger were my arms and they got quite deformed and out of proportion. I was training at the school gym and the teachers only seemed to give attention to the jocks and sporting guys, so as a girl I was left to carry on training the wrong way. One day one of the football players notices me holding my back as it wasn't strong enough for what I was doing, he came over presumably thinking it was an easy way to score!"
Lauren giggled as she thought of Kirk
"Kirk took me under his wing and he helped me devise a training program, that improved my fitness but also maintained my feminine shape. Needless to say Kirk became my first boyfriend but when I refused to give in and let him score with me he changed and became nasty toward me but he maintained that I was his girlfriend and even said we did when we didn't. I didn't want to crush the guy's ego so I rolled with it since it got me into the cool crowd very important to most teenagers!"
Lauren winks at the camera
"After training and being in the cool crowd I grew tired of the act I had to put on, basically bullying people because they were different or simply weren't cool, pretending to be impressed by a jock gorilla pressing someone half his weight just made me feel guilty and I tried to tell Kirk it was over but he grabbed my arm and told me it wasn't at this moment I was terrified that he would treat me like he did the others, maybe he would have done if it wasn't for another kid who kept himself to himself being a damn good hero I think he might!"
Lauren pauses briefly before laughing
"Not to keep you hanging for too long the hero and my hero was Logan, I had seen him around despite him trying to stay out of trouble and pretty much be a ghost at school. So there I am with Kirk grabbing my arm then all I see his Logan grabbing the back of his hand and I heard the bone cracking and he lifted Kirk up and said leave the girl alone and pick on someone your own size. Kirk struggled but couldn't break Logan's grip, Logan dropped him and shoved him into the locker and calmly walked away!"
The interview blacks out for a commercial...
On Growing Up:
"Growing up in Virginia wasn't easy, growing up in my household didn't make it any easier Dad being away around the country half the time and when he was home he would be on some much stuff that he wasn't really my Dad just a shell, the only emotion us kids would get from him were anger!"
Lauren takes a moment to compose herself and then she continues
"He never hit myself or my sisters, but he hit mom and my brother. Maybe he didn't hit us because we were younger, I don't know. I knew my brother was difficult and troublesome so maybe dad would hit him because it was the only way to control him. I found watching this hard as it continued for a long time throughout his in ring career and sometime afterward. Although to this day he never admitted I knew he took stuff that wasn't good for him at all, during my teens he went away and I am certain this was for rehab although when I ask my mom she denied it and said dad was working."
Lauren gave a somewhat uneasy smile
"I knew my dad wasn't working he knew nothing besides wrestling so finding other work was hard for him, as bless him but he was never really the sharpest knife in the drawer. It was as this time I started to take an interest in the wrestling business and I suppose after I saw Justin training to follow in dad's footsteps. I asked my dad about it since he was the only person I knew in it, and his words that I remember to this day, 'Lauren you are too small to wrestle and it's no place for young girls end of discussion!'"
Lauren cleared her throat and took a sip of water.
On Training for wrestling:
"Without my dad knowing I started training twice a week full body workout, at the time I had no clue and pretty much all that got stronger were my arms and they got quite deformed and out of proportion. I was training at the school gym and the teachers only seemed to give attention to the jocks and sporting guys, so as a girl I was left to carry on training the wrong way. One day one of the football players notices me holding my back as it wasn't strong enough for what I was doing, he came over presumably thinking it was an easy way to score!"
Lauren giggled as she thought of Kirk
"Kirk took me under his wing and he helped me devise a training program, that improved my fitness but also maintained my feminine shape. Needless to say Kirk became my first boyfriend but when I refused to give in and let him score with me he changed and became nasty toward me but he maintained that I was his girlfriend and even said we did when we didn't. I didn't want to crush the guy's ego so I rolled with it since it got me into the cool crowd very important to most teenagers!"
Lauren winks at the camera
"After training and being in the cool crowd I grew tired of the act I had to put on, basically bullying people because they were different or simply weren't cool, pretending to be impressed by a jock gorilla pressing someone half his weight just made me feel guilty and I tried to tell Kirk it was over but he grabbed my arm and told me it wasn't at this moment I was terrified that he would treat me like he did the others, maybe he would have done if it wasn't for another kid who kept himself to himself being a damn good hero I think he might!"
Lauren pauses briefly before laughing
"Not to keep you hanging for too long the hero and my hero was Logan, I had seen him around despite him trying to stay out of trouble and pretty much be a ghost at school. So there I am with Kirk grabbing my arm then all I see his Logan grabbing the back of his hand and I heard the bone cracking and he lifted Kirk up and said leave the girl alone and pick on someone your own size. Kirk struggled but couldn't break Logan's grip, Logan dropped him and shoved him into the locker and calmly walked away!"
The interview blacks out for a commercial...