Lex Luger: “I’ve Made A Lot Of Bad Choices Over The years… I Lost My Wife & Two Children”

• Lex Luger recently joined Steve and the Scum on WGD Weekly, discussing all points from his storied career in professional wrestling. Here are some highlights: The Miss Elizabeth tragedy: “It was a very d…

Lex Luger recently joined Steve and the Scum on WGD Weekly, discussing all points from his storied career in professional wrestling. Here are some highlights from the interview:

The Miss Elizabeth tragedy: “It was a very dark, sad time in my personal life. I’ve made a lot of bad choices outside of the ring over the years that led to me giving up my family, my beautiful wife and two children.

I developed a double life and there was a lot of collateral damage from that to my friends, my family and those closest to me including Miss Elizabeth. She always will be the first lady of wrestling.

It was a real tragedy, I was living a lifestyle back then, a lot of drugs, alcohol, I call it the life of folly in my book. It led to a lot of tragic things, and that was the biggest tragedy you could ever think of to have a close friend like Elizabeth as a result of it.

People say, ‘well Lex, you didn’t make her drink or shove pills down her throat,’ but I was a very big influence on her life at the time and I was doing that and she wanted to do what I did.

Lex Luger on Miss Elizabeth death

So if you talk about regrets in the past guys, we can’t erase the past and we have got to take responsibility and I take a lot of responsibility for that tragic event and what happened.”

His thoughts on first finding out about Vince McMahon buying WCW and being on the last Nitro: “I was happy for Vince because I knew, man, he had won, that was a genuine moment for him.

Miss Elizabeth reading while in Lex Luger room

I was like, ‘yeah, buddy, everybody had you counted out there when we were beating you for ‘x’ amount of weeks straight. I was happy for him.”

Miss Elizabeth’s Memory: “Lots of water have past under the bridge now, but the thought of Miss Elizabeth and the things that happened between us, I shall forever treasure.

It hurts me deeply that I had such a bad influence in her life. It was a very dark, sad time in my personal life. I lost my dear family,” Lex Luger added.