“I wish he took it, or just retired,” David said. “That took a toll on him, man, when Eddie passed away? That man was his best friend.”Ĭhris was considering retirement in 2006 while he was off recovering from injuries and was offered a backstage producing role with WWE. David believes Guerrero’s death impacted his father greatly. I’ve never spoken about it.”Įddie Guerrero, with whom Chris Benoit was extremely close, died of heart failure on Nov. I got to say ‘I love you’ one last time to him,” David said through tears. “We were just laughing and getting ready to make plans for the summer. He said the last time he spoke to his dad was on Father’s Day 2007, when they talked for two hours. It took David seven months before he was able to move on. That was a hard day, that was a super hard day.” “I think the day it really hit me was his funeral. “I didn’t believe it for days, bro,” David said. He initially didn’t believe it and said he punched a cop when he found out. All the chair shots he took, not protecting himself.”ĭavid, now 27, says he was 14 or 15 at the time of the murder-suicide, living in Edmonton with his mom. Chris, who was 40, “had the brain of an 88-year-old with Alzheimer’s,” David said. I don’t think it was him.”Ĭhris killed his second wife, Nancy, and 7-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself on June 24, 2007, in Georgia. It just made my life a little easier, didn’t have to think about it. That’s what, at the beginning, gave me some closure.
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