2022 has not been kind to Kevin Nash as he lost his best friend in Scott Hall to a series of heart attacks following a blot clot working loose after surgery, and last week he lost his 26 year old son Tristan.
It’d be a difficult time for anyone, and after taking his time to deal with Tristan’s untimely death Nash talked about him on the recent “Kliq This” podcast episode titled “Remembering Tristan.
Nash covered the events in detail as well as hearing from other wrestlers offering their support and how he and Tristan quit drinking the week before.
Caused by a seizure
It’s always tragic when someone so young passes, and Nash explained it was a cardiac arrest that was brought on by a seizure.
“The seizure caused the cardiac arrest. He was basically dead in his room on the floor with the EMT working on him. They got him back and got him in the ambulance and they tried to save his life. So to the people at Halifax hospital, doctors and nurses, I thank you.”
He went on to explain how things kept escalating with his son once he was in the hospital, as well as some of the conditions his son had to deal with in his day to day life.
“My son was autistic. My son had Asperger’s. My son was very, very highly educated, very, very high IQ, but my son was autistic on top of all those things.”
On why they quit drinking
“We both decided that we were going to stop drinking so it was a situation where you know we both went cold turkey. I don’t think either of us felt great because you stop drinking coffee for a day and you get a headache. I think we were both dealing with it.
“He had had a couple of incidents. We actually sat up here last Wednesday and in the course of the show, he drank four or five beers unbeknownst to me. I got pissed at him because he had a situation at the beginning of the year where he was hospitalized for almost 60 days.
“After the show, and a week later, he passes. When you look back at things, it’s like, so he wasn’t feeling good. So we were kind of, my wife and I were just kind of like waiting on him hand and foot. We knew he was trying to do this. One of the things that if you WebMD that, one of the things of cold turkey is that you have an increased risk of having a seizure.”
Reaching out
We always hear about the brotherhood wrestlers share, and it’s apparent to how deep it reaches when Nash talked about everyone that reached out to him like Rhino and Vince McMahon, and that he talked to Ric Flair about how he dealt with his son’s death.
“One of the people I reached out to when Ric Flair sent me a message and was telling me he loved me and anything I could do. The thing is when you’re one of the boys, it’s not just lip service. Ric reached out to me and I said, ‘Can we talk?’ He said, ‘Sure.’ I went by the pool and I said, ‘How did you do it with Reid?’ We went over it. That’s what makes this shit work, not some therapist that is going to look at me and not be able to look past my tattooed arm.”
Nash made sure to stress that if he hadn’t gotten back to any well wishers he will soon, but it’s hard to know where to start when a couple hundred messages came in and he lost numbers of some.
We wish him and his family the best during this time.
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