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Booker T was born the youngest of eight children in a poor single parent household in Louisiana.
By the age of 13, Booker T’s mother passed away which meant his sister took over “parenting”
duties and according to Booker, she wasn’t the greatest of role models. Without any sort
of discipline figure in his life, this led Booker down the wrong path and he started
involving himself with the wrong crowd. This started with him committing theft before moving
onto a more serious crime, armed robbery. At the age of 21, Booker T was convicted and
found guilty for a series of armed robberies he committed at a Wendy’s restaurant where
he worked and was sentenced to 5-years in prison. He ended up serving 19 months of his
sentence.
Ahmed Johnson competed in the WWF between 1995 and 1999 and is best known for becoming
the first African American to win a singles championship in the WWE. His big stature and
toughness can be attributed to the violent upbringing he went through which involved:
regular beatings and his involvement in gang violence. Johnson had a very abusive father
who would regularly beat his mother and his siblings as well as himself. Any time he tried
to help his mother; he would receive
a beating. The regular beatings he received caused Johnson
to go down a violent path and that involved him aligning himself with the Bloods gang,
a notorious Los Angeles gang symbolised by their red clothing and their involvement in
drugs, theft and murder, among other criminal activities. As a result of his decision, he
would often get himself into fights in school but he decided to change his bad lifestyle
by joining the Army. According to Johnson, it was all going well up until he was discharged
for beating up his captain.
Chyna spent most of her childhood in a home filled with alcoholism and domestic violence.
Her parents split up when she was four years old which meant she had a lot of different
stepmothers and stepfathers coming in and out of her household. She witnessed her fair
share of domestic problems such as: her biological father accidentally stabbing her mother with
a breadknife and her first stepfather threatening suicide. As a young kid, she was taken advantage
of by her schoolteacher who kissed her. By the age of 16, Chyna’s abusive mother forced
her to go into rehab after wrongly suspecting her of doing drugs which caused her to go
and live with her alcoholic father. But things started to get worse for Chyna when she found
out that she had developed an ovarian tumour. While in the doctor’s office, she received
news that her father had used her insurance to cover thousands of dollars of his medical
bills. During her time in university, she was raped by two men after getting drunk at
a party. But despite all of the painful experiences she went through, she also fought a constant
battle with drugs and alcohol as well as mental illness. This eventually took a toll on her
as she sadly passed away at her home from a drug overdose and alcohol intoxication at
the early age of 46.
Batista grew up in Washington D.C. in a violent ghetto which was ridden with crime and poverty.
He recalled seeing people get shot and a group of people beating up someone right in front
of his house. By the age of just 9, three people had been murdered in Batista’s front
lawn. Batista’s parents split up when he was very young which meant his mother had
to provide for him and his sister. At times they were so poor that they weren’t able
to eat anything at all. His mother recalled a story where Batista and his sister just
avoided getting shot when they were caught in a crossfire after someone pulled out a
gun and started shooting at a drug dealer outside his house. Due to the rough neighbourhood
Batista lived in, this meant he got involved in gangs which saw him fighting and stealing
vehicles. By the time he was 13, he was arrested on numerous occasions and spent time in juvenile
halls.
After his life had hit rock bottom, Jake “The Snake” Roberts managed to turn his life
around after years of battling with alcohol and drug addiction that can be traced back
to his childhood days. Even at birth, Roberts was plagued with tragedy as he was conceived
due to the result of his father raping his mother who was 12-years old at the time. As
the years went on, Roberts would also learn that his father had raped his sister and his
half-sister on numerous occasions. He lost the people who were closest to him, his grandmother
to cancer, his step-father who was electrocuted to death and his sister who was kidnapped
and murdered. He was regularly abused both physically and sexually by his step-mother
which led him to start drinking alcohol at the age of just 11 before moving on to hard
drugs by the age of 18 to help numb the pain he was feeling. His severe depression as a
result of his traumatising childhood even led him to a failed suicide attempt using
pills.