do you know why dave batista likes to
wear sunglasses so much or which ailment
he suffered from as a child here's a few
insights into the complicated personal
life of the wrestler turned actor
dave batista grew up in washington dc
but his time in the nation's capital
during the 80s had little to do with
monuments and museums batista told the
tampa bay times that he often saw
violent acts firsthand in his
neighborhood like the time he quote
watched from his window as a mob beat a
man and tried to throw him from an
overpass in his memoir batista unleashed
the wrestler revealed even more gruesome
details of his time in washington dc
such as the time a dead body wound up on
his front lawn when two more people
suffered similar deaths in the
neighborhood batista's mother felt the
need to relocate the family to san
francisco while living on the west coast
batista's mother found herself on
welfare and without a job batista
recalled sharing a mattress with his
sister and having to use unconventional
items as furniture he said of his
family's san francisco apartment we had
milk crates to sit on in the kitchen and
industrial sized wire spools for a
kitchen table we had that for years
so what did you want to be when you were
a little kid oh
i wanted to be
alive
batista started skipping school in first
grade but what started off as missing a
few classes soon became excessive
batista claims that he skipped most of
his sixth grade year as for what he
would do with that extra time batista
has admitted his choices didn't always
add up writing in his memoir one time a
couple of friends and i ditched school
the day the class was going on a field
trip to the zoo so what did we do we
went to the zoo batista would spend his
free time riding around san francisco on
the city buses and cable cars oftentimes
without paying his fare batista's
rebellion against school continued into
his teenage years when his mother sent
him back east to live with his dad and
he eventually dropped out during his
senior year in an interview for men's
health batista had mixed feelings about
his decision to leave high school
prematurely saying my circumstances were
different and school wasn't a priority i
always live with that regret and i'm not
ashamed of it batista's advice to high
schoolers as written in batista
unleashed is to quote stay in school
learn as much as you possibly can
batista started having run-ins with the
law from a young age much of the future
wrestler's time as a teenager was spent
stealing bikes and getting into fights
he wrote i never spent more than a day
in jail i wasn't stealing or breaking
the law to get back at anyone i was
stealing because all my friends were
doing it after a particularly violent
fight left batista with an assault
charge he was sent to a group home to
live with about a dozen other young men
after leaving the home he was sent back
after throwing a party that trashed his
dad's house in another childhood
incident batista terrorized a young boy
and was arrested for quote stuffing a
kid in the trunk of a car beating him up
and stealing his mom's jewelry however
the charges were eventually dropped
after the jewelry was returned later
batista got a job as a nightclub bouncer
but his angry outbursts continued while
he was on the job he was found guilty of
misdemeanor assault after a violent
confrontation with a man who was
harassing his girlfriend but the
conviction was eventually overturned
batista felt justified in his aggression
commenting i made sure his head met a
couple of brick walls on the way out
as a young boy batista was especially
close with his grandfather alfonso in
his memoir batista explained that his
grandfather wasn't very affectionate
toward him or his cousins as babies
until one day when his mother had to
tend to something quickly he detailed
she just threw me in my grandfather's
arms his face lit up from that day i was
his favorite grandchild when alfonso
passed away batista was heartbroken in
the midst of his loss the 18 year old
wasn't able to maintain a similar
relationship with his grandmother
batista also had a difficult
relationship with his father he said of
his dad's presence in his life in all
the years after my parents split up
basically since i was able to walk i
never felt my father supported us when
batista became a dad himself he resolved
not to make the same mistakes but his
career as an actor created an obstacle
in his relationship with his own family
he confessed to men's health that he
missed his 14 year old son and two dogs
back home while filming the sequel to
knives out in serbia
prior to becoming a wrestler and later
an international movie star batista was
in serious financial trouble he held a
job as a bouncer from the age of 17 to
around 30 but it wasn't enough to keep
him afloat batista revealed in his
memoir i was broke and had no future and
had two kids i was desperate i had
nothing fortunately batista's plan to
break into professional wrestling
succeeded and he started to earn
significantly more money then as an
actor his bank account swelled even more
however having earned such a massive
amount of money in such a short time
frame batista started spending
recklessly he purchased multiple
extravagant cars but looking back on his
financial decisions batista said that he
regretted not buying his mom a house
sooner he told men's health i wasted all
that money and i could have done a lot
of good things with that money i could
have helped people i could have helped
animals but honestly i was miserable and
i was just trying to buy happiness
fortunately batista was eventually able
to purchase a home for his mother and
his net worth is currently estimated to
be in the tens of millions of dollars
for a man who spends so much of his
public career shirtless batista's
sensibilities about body image might
come as a surprise batista has said one
of the reasons he decided to make
guardians of the galaxy vol 3 his final
entry in the mcu was because of the
demanding physique of his character drax
the destroyer on an episode of ellen the
actor confessed i'm also going to be 54
years old by the time guardians 3 comes
out and the shirtless thing is getting
harder and harder for me to keep himself
in top physical condition batista
prescribed himself a limited diet of
quote lots of vegetables fish and eggs
even though his muscles and six foot
four stature makes sense for a lot of
roles he has taken on as an actor
batista aspires to distance himself from
any stereotypes he told vulture i think
a lot of guys who would be playing
action stars are looking for ways to
make themselves more alpha more
masculine more heroic i'm always looking
for the opposite i'm looking for ways to
kind of take away from my stature and
physicality to make me more vulnerable
using his body as an asset has served
batista well as both a wrestler and an
actor behind the scenes however he's
dealt with multiple health issues in
batista unleashed the wrestler discussed
his childhood asthma which gave him
allergies to quote animals pollen and
cigarette smoke as a young man batista
often had to be rushed to the er
multiple times a week as a result of his
asthma issues he credited his mother
with meticulously cleaning their house
and buying foam pillows to help
alleviate his symptoms fortunately
batista never let his breathing troubles
get in the way of his career writing
i've never had an attack where i was in
serious jeopardy it's just part of my
life of course batista's wrestling
injuries haven't done his health any
favors either on a 2018 episode of
personal mastermind batista said that
his torn tricep tied with his broken
back for his worst injury in the ring
although he had little trouble finding
roles in hollywood to showcase his
acting talents dave bautista has
struggled with his relationships during
his time in the public eye in 2015
batista married his third wife national
pole dancing champion sarah jade but the
two ended up breaking things off just
four years later the two split custody
of their pit bulls and batista covered
up his tattoo of her name on his ring
finger with a spider reflecting on his
previous relationships batista revealed
that his professions played a part in
several of his failed marriages batista
told men's health she wanted a husband
who was going to be home i chose my
career because it was the only shot i
had following his separation with jade
batista linked up with a new mystery
woman while filming a project as of 2021
the pair have been together for two
years
batista has labeled himself a very
liberal person on multiple occasions but
he still believes in the constitutional
right to bear arms he has admitted to
keeping weapons at his house for
personal protection telling tmz we have
the right to defend ourselves in our
homes however batista later clarified
his stance on gun control in an
interview with the tampa bay times
saying i'm pro firearm but i don't think
we need assault rifles in the aftermath
of the horrific school shooting in
parkland florida batista reportedly
looked into surrendering his own ar-15
rifle to police but the cops turned him
down the actor said of his weapon
i'm fine giving mine up because if
somebody breaks into my house i'm not
running to get my ar batista has kept
his ar-15 locked away in a safe ever
since and the only time you might see
him use a gun that heavy nowadays is in
the movies
do not touch
although batista may have retired from
the wrestling ring his competitive
fighting spirit lives on in his social
media accounts the actor is an active
twitter user especially when it comes to
voicing his disdain for former president
donald trump batista tweeted his support
of impeachment efforts in early 2020.
the actor also voiced his support for
senator bernie sanders and prayed for a
debate between the two men adding please
let president dum dum stand there by
himself and be exposed and humiliated by
a decent man in another tweet batista
offered up a twenty thousand dollar
reward and bonuses for information
leading to the arrest of the person who
mutilated a florida manatee with the
word trump batista isn't afraid to draw
any criticism online as evidenced by his
official twitter title in 2021
vaxxed af hashtag team pfizer poor kid
chasing dreams in his interview with
men's health batista admitted that he
thought about stepping away from his
twitter account for a while but felt her
responsibility to stay saying i stayed
on because i want to be an opposing
voice to all those tolls who are out
here being racists and bigots and
polarizing our country there's no middle
ground for me it's either you do the
right thing or you're not part of the
solution
whether on the red carpet at an
interview or any number of other events
batista is often spotted wearing his
signature tinted sunglasses while the
eyewear has become an iconic part of
batista's brand as an actor they're more
than just a fashion statement reportedly
batista first started wearing sunglasses
to help with his anxiety when he became
a public figure as a wrestler to help
combat the overwhelming feelings batista
feels more comfortable behind tinted
glass his referred to his spectacles as
quote a pacifier a therapeutic thing he
even wore some yellow shades with a
full-on tuxedo bow tie and all at the
venice film festival in support of his
movie dune batista told men's health of
these publicity events when press
junkets go on for days and days i
struggle i look for people that i really
love to kind of just grasp onto and they
make me happy in the case of the dune
press tour batista was besties with his
co-star josh brolin whom he'd previously
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