An icon of the 80s and 90s as the 'Sensational' manager of top wrestling stars, Sherri Martel left her family behind to pursue her dreams in the ring.
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00:00you want a piece of me little girl well come and get it because you're looking at a woman
00:10that invented me sherry martell was a chameleon a performer who broke new ground for women in
00:17the wrestling business an in-ring natural that made it all look effortless she was an ace
00:23sensational sherry was a top line ringer look at the 80s and you look at sherry's role it's
00:29some of the biggest storylines the biggest moments the biggest pay-per-views my god she was a huge star
00:35inside the ring and outside the ring and on the microphone and on camera she was perfect she was
00:42really the only great female manager of modern times you hulk hogan are the one that had a failing
00:50career you whatever the gimmick she would do whatever it needed everybody in the business knew
00:56that but few knew of the sacrifices that sherry's total commitment to becoming a star demanded
01:04her demons took over she said she didn't want to be a caged bird and the high cost of her trailblazing
01:12success she worked hard man she paid a price too i knew she was in pain but you don't work
01:19you don't get paid it pushed her the wrong way no punches pulled no nothing wait it became more
01:26obvious that she was having issues if you can't get your act together you need to step off team
01:31harlem heat there were skeletons throughout her whole life some people can get over it and some people
01:37can't
01:44you honestly tell me i want you that is fake i got the job and i go out here and i get everything that i got
02:05i run all these miles up and down the road and i wear my body out that's not fake my body gets slammed
02:12on that damn campus and on the outside of the ring i sit the hospital i get glass in my damn eyes
02:19that's not fake sherry was tough physically but also she was tough somewhat mentally she could take
02:26some of the abuses she got from the fans or from the other wrestlers and that's why the guys liked
02:32working with her she was all in i'm jim cornett for almost 40 years i've done everything in pro
02:39wrestling especially managing and sherry martell was the first person i ever managed and i have
02:44signed up and i would like to introduce miss sherry martell i've had people ask me how did you decide
02:50to take sherry martell as a client well i didn't can i make an investment or can i make an investment
02:55in 1982 both of us were just getting started sherry was just a rookie wrestler and we were kind of
03:02thrown together just because the promoter knew that i needed some kind of practice so we looked
03:07at each other and said you're greener than goose shit and i'm even worse how can this possibly go
03:11wrong we bonded from that moment money talks and you know what walks she wasn't the over-the-top
03:18personality that you would see from sherry martell five years later or ten years later but at that
03:23point nobody knew she was going to be not only one of the great female wrestlers of the next
03:30generation but also one of the most high profile managers in wrestling she was just a girl who
03:35wanted to be a wrestler at that point you didn't know how far she was going to go i know you all want
03:41me but you can't have me sherry was a diva before the divas were divas when she got in that ring
03:50different person i mean she got out of that ring a sweetheart i'm kathy fitzpatrick and sherry martell
04:00was my best friend we kind of had the same kind of childhood she didn't know her dad her mom would
04:06take her to wrestling shows and she liked it my mom would go to wrestling matches in hannesburg
04:12mississippi and there was a livestock arena it was great wrestling atmosphere and the seed was planted
04:19at that point i would just always be rabble i always wanted to do something different than everybody else
04:24i met sherry martell in 1974 i'd say at the time she was probably 17 and i was 18 i was a referee for
04:38mid-south wrestling and she was a fan i remember sherry being in the front row watching the shows
04:46one night in lafayette louisiana we met we talked and it moved forward very fast
04:58aurelian smith is my legal name jake the snake roberts is how most people might know me
05:08sherry and i had spent some raw time together we were going to get off again for about four or five
05:14years just her walking into a room she was a star i mean that's just how captivating she was she was
05:21beautiful but she wasn't your typical oh dainty printy girl she was a kick ass in your face girl
05:31was i in love with her i was in love with something there was that connection both of us wanting
05:38something that seemed so far out of reality it seemed like it would never get to the big show or
05:45to the wwe or even mid-south he's out for blood he's not out to wrestle
05:53sherry martell wanted to be a wrestling star from the get-go in those days there were no training
06:00programs that were advertised you had to just hang around until somebody was willing to take a chance on
06:06you if you wanted to be involved in wrestling grizzly smith at the time was a road agent and a matchmaker
06:13for mid-south wrestling and if he would see prospective talent he would take an interest in
06:20it i had went to grizzly smith when i was 16 years old it was jake roberts father and anna told i wanted
06:27to learn how to wrestle he told me to come back when i was 21. dreaming of being a wrestling star but with no
06:34avenue to begin her training by 1976 sherry is living and working in new orleans she was gorgeous
06:42had a good sense of humor and just we got along i'm leroy gonzalez and i'm the ex-husband of sherry
06:52mortel june of 1976. i was in training in a restaurant and she was sitting in a booth and complained about
07:04uh roach in the booth i just looked up at her and said i wish i'd have been that roach
07:12so she says later on she says why don't you come and meet me and have a drink she was working across
07:18the street i didn't know where i was going really and so when i walked in i realized it was a club
07:27and she was on stage after her dance was over she came and sat down we got to talking and she just
07:38swept me off my feet she was wanting to get out of that business and i bought a trailer and she moved in
07:48with me one day i got men from work got on her knee and asked her to marry me but she'd go out with her
07:56girlfriends and party yes but any drug marijuana uppers mollies downers quaaludes cocaine we got into some
08:11pretty heated discussions about it and yeah it just never stopped
08:20at that time she wanted to have a family and we had jared in july of 1978.
08:30i wanted a child now we have one time to put your big girl pants on and take care of the child
08:40couldn't take it when she told me she was going to pursue a career in wrestling i laughed at her
08:49i had no idea
08:50she left when the baby was like three months old
08:59and i know i heard it bother her but sometimes you have to do what you have to do sherry moves to
09:07memphis where she again finds work as an exotic dancer while continuing her search for a way to
09:12break into the wrestling business in those days there was always some independent or what we call
09:18outlaw wrestlers around a major wrestling city and i went to a school that butch moore had in this
09:28told them i want to learn how to wrestle he got up and he slapped the living hell out of me
09:36and at that point i looked at him i said is that all you've got
09:42there you go outlaw wrestler here let me slap you and see if you're tough and what the is that
09:52i would have been interested to see if she slapped him back if he could handle it
09:57how male dominated it was i was going to succeed in this i went and i told grizz i've got a year of
10:06training under my bill i threw my driver's license out at us i'm 21 now i'm ready i had a son i'm divorced
10:18i said this is what i want to do and he says why i said because i think that i can be the best
10:24person that i possibly can be this is the career that i want he said okay
10:30tell me about her skills in the ring great that's my sister rockin robin the first time i met sherry was
10:42when she would come in town often she would stay actually at my father's house
10:48i'm rockin robin and i defeated sherry martell for the wwf women's world title
10:54history made here new ladies champion rockin robin like a lot of the other girls if they were in town
11:03i would go and hang out with them i guess try to make them more comfortable
11:08my father grizz he had a um liking you know very much for younger girls i mean he is a no good son of a
11:18bitch man actually she was a little old for his wheelhouse i would go to the matches and watch her
11:28wrestle sherry could be strictly business even at that young of an age she had those rough edges
11:37but that's what made her sherry after grizzly saw well we've given her the basics
11:42she needs to go to work with moolah to continue her career the fabulous moolah the fabulous moolah was
11:50not only the world women's champion wrestler for 30 something years but also she booked all the women
11:57wrestlers to the various territories around the united states so if you were an aspiring female
12:02wrestler you almost had to not only be trained by moolah but then stick with moolah and work as part of
12:08her troop and one of the most adhered to rules was that you have to give moolah her booking kick back
12:16or elsewise you're in serious trouble it was almost like a military school type of operation for lady
12:23wrestlers we did what moolah told you i figured that if i was going to make it in this business and i
12:29got to her camp and there was nothing that was going to stop me moolah had a lot of rules there were
12:35curfews the girls had to be in at certain times and moolah said at the time she would just into that
12:40nightclub and and darling that was just too much for me and moolah asked her to depart the compound
12:49once sherry got away from moolah she was able to create more of her own personality and get over on
12:56her own merits rather than somebody else telling the promoter how to use her
13:00in the months after sherry leaves her husband and infant son behind to pursue wrestling
13:07leroy struggles to put their family back together i was trying to get her to come back home
13:13i hired a private investigator to follow her and i found out where she was at and
13:20some of the things that she was up to
13:23i was making a night deposit at the bank and three big guys walked up to me
13:30and point blank told me hey leave sherry alone she belongs to us i have no idea they were just
13:39friends of sherry if it ain't anything to the wrestling association when they said she belongs to us
13:45well she belongs to wrestling i left her alone after that
13:49after stints in japan and mid-south wrestling by the mid-1980s sherry martell is working as a wrestler
14:04and manager in the awa a regional promotion based in minneapolis
14:10verne gania in the awa that's one guy that had never had a relationship with the fabulous moolah that
14:17was good for sherry and because he could book any girl or anybody else he wanted to book
14:22now we know who's a better woman i told you she was crazy there were never a lot of lady wrestlers in
14:28the awa but the ones that they picked and that they did use were very accomplished and sherry was
14:35physical and she could dish it out beating her over the head with that belt sherry knew the business
14:41and her psychology was on point her timing was incredible hey guys wwe hall of famer known as
14:52alundra blaze and medusa from robbinsdale minnesota medusa michelli i looked up to her a lot
15:01and kind of trying to emulate what she did and how strong she was even though she was caving inside
15:07in so many ways i went over to her house and i remember her saying that her son was away having a
15:17child in this business was frowned upon for women so her son i felt was purposely not to the forefront
15:26for she was really trying to do something with her career
15:29i think he has cancer even though
15:59he's never said it straight out to me from what i understand he lost part of his tongue due to
16:04cancer this is right before she left don't judge her for what she did i was always taking care of
16:18and she made sure of it in a way she made the best decision for me sherry had him but pat raised him
16:29that was three years old when we told her who his mother is my oldest memory was a magazine
16:40and it was published in the pen we started making arrangements for jared to fly out and meet her
16:50supposed to be for a week and ended up maybe two days she'd send him back did that make you angry as a
16:58kid that you couldn't see your mom more often it was very difficult for women to even have a
17:07relationship let alone have a child and i feel that it really took a toll on women mentally because we
17:15were trying to push the envelope harder than we needed to to prove a point to take us seriously
17:24basically it's a whole thing in the business you just you know do what you're told and do your job
17:29and hopefully maybe you got escalated and sherry martell she shows me a lot of confidence i like that two of the
17:38biggest stars that had worked in the awa that had since gone to the wwf working for
17:43vince mcmahon were jesse ventura and kurt hennig that's right mcmahon for once in your life you're
17:48right and i just might let you keep your job their word carried a lot of weight with vince and they
17:54both put good words in for sherry as soon as sherry arrives in the wwf she is pitted against her former
18:01mentor fabulous moolah reigning woman's champion for quite some time i might add by 1987 moolah has had
18:10the women's world title for most of 30 years and she's in her mid 50s and at that point a change had
18:18to be made of vince mcmahon was the one to be able to pay moolah what she required to do that
18:25and they put the belt on sherry martell as a wrestler that was the peak of sherry's career
18:40i alone me myself and i beat the fabulous moolah i pinned her one two three right that says a lot
18:48okay i'm not finished yet rock and robin you can rock and rock and rock around the block all night
18:54long but there are never come a day in your life to where you can defeat me they put me on a dark
19:00match with sherry and then the next thing i know i'm working in the wwf
19:10we were wrestling we were working every night and we were on the road with hulk hogan and jake
19:16randy savage and we're at a different arena every single night on a plane every single day
19:22those days we were doing seven days a week every week there were no days off kidding me
19:30the women were out there were working their tails off but sherry probably worked harder than she needed
19:36to she wanted to be a part of the show a big part pat and i which is my ex-wife would turn it on
19:46and watch wrestling jared was jumping up and down his mom was on tv
19:52i never even liked it took her away but then again that was her choice
19:59my mind was so focused on wrestling everything else took second everything and that was including my ex
20:06my family my family everyone sherry was emotionally wrecked there was a lot of pain and anger there
20:18probably from her leaving the people behind but she was close-lipped about all that
20:22and she knew how to keep her nose to the ground and grind in those days the female wrestlers were an
20:30attraction they were a special thing to put on the cards so if any of the female wrestlers wanted to
20:37be taken seriously they had to be accepted in the locker room and then the guys would have greater
20:44appreciation for their work in the ring and all the guys like sherry she was one of the boys and that
20:50was the ultimate compliment in those days that any of the male wrestlers could give one of the girls is
20:56you're just like us you're tough you're a partier you're stiff in the ring we accept you i think she
21:04probably could have drank or you know snorted them under the table absolutely whatever sherry did she did
21:12to the max sherry loved her pot and so when you get the mix of cocaine and marijuana and then drinking
21:22i mean i don't know how they kept going for two or three nights there were nights i wrestled sherry and
21:28she was going on 48 hours she was never late for a match though she always showed up i think it was
21:36like an outdoor show i keep looking at her and you know how when somebody just kind of looks right past you
21:42and i'm like i don't know if she even sees me i was down on all fours on the mat and she threw
21:50a kick and it caught me right on the throat it was full force i couldn't breathe i just remember
22:00thinking oh my god this is it i'm gonna die at a state fair in the middle of a wrestling ring
22:12intoxicated but still performing in the ring sherry martell has kicked rockin robin in the throat
22:21leaving her struggling for breath finally i was able to get that big breath
22:29then we got back to the dressing room and she just grabbed me and gave me the biggest hug and she knew that it was bad
22:38she did like pot that was no big deal but if there was anything else that really impaired you
22:45to do your job in the ring you know that's when it becomes a problem
22:52they don't call me the sensational sherry for nothing and in a moment i'm going to show you
22:57exactly how sensational i am by 1990 sherry martell is a dominant force in the wwf as one of its
23:06premier female wrestlers but that is about to change vince mcmahon was never fully sold on the idea of
23:15back in those days of an entire women's division i think he just decided to wrap it up he still had
23:22sherry martell there and sherry was able to exhibit the fact that she could do a promo and she was this
23:30wild over-the-top personality then vince figured heck with women's wrestling i'm going to put her in the
23:37corner of one of my main event male stars and make her more money than she's ever made because that's
23:43the thing you could be the world women's champion wrestler and make him or you could be the manager
23:51for a main event male star in the wwf and make a fortune i think vince mcmahon probably saw the
23:57same thing everybody else saw which is a very gifted athletic physical woman that was very
24:04attractive the camera loved her and there's not a microphone she couldn't own my name is eric bischoff
24:10former president of world championship wrestling hello everybody grew up as a young man a fan of
24:15sherry martell and had the opportunity to work with her in the 90s back when sherry was at her
24:22peak and managing the producer would say to you okay you're going to be doing this and this you're
24:26going to be doing it on this night you're going to be in a ring with these two that's it boom ready
24:31set go i look in there what do i see i see hulk hogan laying flat on his back she would figure out a way to
24:39tweak her personality and her appearance the way she dressed the way she acted to kind of more closely
24:45fit the guy she was with while still being at the root of it herself and indeed we have a new macho king
24:53randy savage accompanied of course by queen sherry if you go back and you look at the wrestling world
24:59and what the product was during the peak of sherry's career i think she had a ridiculously powerful
25:06impact on it i had no idea that she was really gonna do it that well oh yeah as time went on she
25:15just became very famous please welcome sensational sherry
25:25jerry would fly out and go and meet her and a bunch of the wrestlers
25:29when i was going to go with my mom that's where i grew up
25:38you know my mom wasn't the movement every day
25:45you know my mom's a legend and this is how legends were made sherry was completely different than what any
25:57other female had been presented as in the wwf up to that point in time introducing first the manager
26:05elizabeth miss elizabeth was brought in with randy savage because she was his real life wife and you
26:12had sable and you had sunny but they weren't trained wrestlers sherry was sherry wasn't afraid
26:19to get in there and mix it up and do what needed to be done in the finish to get people on the edge of
26:24their seat she didn't care if she was wearing a five thousand dollar ball gown she's going to be
26:28down on the floor choking the guy that her wrestler is opposing she was always taking bumps crazy bumps
26:41big bumps tall bumps concrete bumps right in a woman's frame there's a little less sometimes right
26:48and she was banged up i'm sure she had injuries how bad is the question do you know how she dealt with
26:59her pain i'm sure she took meds if audrey had ever opened my mouth and looked off her i wouldn't have been
27:11moved to go back and see her i don't ever let her and thought no if she had my mind sober
27:24there's so much that we put our bodies to on a daily basis things that god did not intend us to do
27:31and in turn people find ways to compensate or to get through i found ways to get through
27:39it somas are a muscle relaxer that many of the wrestlers began to rely on and it began to become
27:51a problem in wrestling in the late 80s and into the 90s like a number of other substances did it was
27:58like candy it was ready available and they took the somas they took the vicodins they took whatever the
28:05hell else they took sometimes you had doctors that wrote these prescriptions out it was crazy
28:10i saw it firsthand you can believe in the wwf and their new testing uh policies and procedures when
28:16the wwe first started drug testing it was because of the steroid scandal that vince mcmahon got himself
28:23into along with hulk hogan and a few of the guys that were really over the top on the steroids but they
28:29were testing for all kinds of street drugs and illegal drugs as well and sherry failed a number of
28:37times for marijuana i got called up to the office and it was jj dylan who's pritchard and vince mcmahon
28:47sitting here and i said sherry your drug test is kind of positive again we have to let you go
28:54what would be the point of getting up yelling screaming i knew i screwed up in any wrestling
29:02promotion since the dawn of time if you showed up high and screwed something up you got fired
29:07nobody gets sent to rehab everybody gets sent packing
29:11fired from the wwf in 1993 sherry martell needs to figure out her next move to stay working in the
29:26industry that she loves nobody could hurt me any more than i've hurt myself when i got released i went
29:33back home and i started making phone calls of all the things i've ever been so excited about in my life
29:39is coming to the parade of champions the same year that she had been let go from the wwf i brought her
29:45down to knoxville for smoky mountain wrestling sherry martell giving it to tammy finch she was the same
29:51old sherry and came in and did a wonderful job for us but there was one night after one of the shows
30:00i could tell as she was slowing down a little bit and i said sherry oh i'm okay i said ah having a cruise
30:07on lake havasoma i see if you're heavily soma'd not only are you zombified mentally but your whole
30:19body is out of control she was always had bad back pain and she sometimes took a little too much
30:26and it was for the pain wasn't for any other reason it was for the pain
30:30it wasn't just to pop a pill she was medicating on her own which had gotten out of hand that never
30:39works out well in the end does it i couldn't see how destructive i was i thought the drugs made me
30:46perform better and i wasn't able to see what other people spun
30:50despite her ongoing issues with pain medication sherry returns to the national spotlight with
31:00wwf rival world championship wrestling i am here for a reason and that is to find a man that can
31:07fulfill all of my needs i didn't ask sherry why she was let go from wwe if if she quit or was fired i
31:15i didn't know i didn't ask and i didn't care i hired her back in 93 because she was a great talent
31:21to be led to the ring by sister sherry wow from harlem
31:29jerry and harlem heat booker and stevie ray they looked great together and they had not had a major
31:35spot anywhere before in a big time promotion or on a major television show so she kind of gave them
31:42credibility that they wouldn't have had because everybody knew who sherry was
31:49sherry's passion and dedication to her career comes at the cost of never having enough time
31:54for her son jared that's good that's good wait a second
32:02there's many times she held me
32:05she seemed a little more lost and um uncertain
32:27my body had just gotten to the point and my brain had gotten to the point to where i just could not
32:33do it i would not perform up to their expectations she was let go because she was no longer good on
32:40camera she would show up under the influence of something i'm guessing it was prescription drugs
32:48didn't matter to me she was under something and it was affecting her ability to perform
32:52you can't fire me because i quit right now
32:55i don't know what took place between sherry and eric maybe she was taking too many somas maybe she
33:04wasn't herself maybe she wasn't performing in the ring like she was supposed to however
33:10if that was true and he acted and said i'm just going to get rid of her then that should have been
33:17done twofold on a handful of excuse me a handful of men
33:25but it wasn't after wcw there was no place to go at that point in time sherry was in her 40s
33:34and younger girls had come along so i think it probably was the worst thing that happened at that
33:40point in time that she lost that spot i'd heard it over the grapevine that she was deep into the oxys
33:49they were controlling their life you medicate it i lost my job i'm just going to get up
33:57it's not like uh there's 20 wrestling companies that you can go to sherry's been probably five years
34:03up there and that's a great accomplishment but it's never enough it's never enough
34:21as her wrestling career nears its end sherry martell marries her new boyfriend robert shrull
34:28she had gotten married in 1997 which was during her wcw run and sometimes when a civilian marries a
34:36celebrity that civilian thinks that celebrity is always going to be a celebrity and unfortunately after
34:43the wcw run sherry was off television out of the business and just a normal person sherry didn't do
34:51normal well she was still in a lot of pain sadly i think if she had another outlet and it got whatever
35:00she needed from what i understand it was a surgery but she couldn't afford it i don't think she would
35:05ever gotten hooked on pills at some point when you get addicted to prescription pills or anything else
35:13you're taking it because you have to whether you're injured or not because you're addicted
35:17but i don't think that her husband was any benefit to her in that particular situation
35:23robert was always trying to put a range in between my mother
35:31and the family taking her away from us the last time i saw my mother
35:44was the night she was inducted to the whole thing
35:49in 2006 after several years away from the wrestling business sherry becomes the second woman to be
36:01inducted into the wwe hall of fame
36:07you know the amazing thing about this business is i had the ability to walk beside some of the most
36:13wonderful people in the world this was her time to shine and she spoke from the heart and then i met
36:21a man named eric bischoff
36:26and we all know where he's at now right
36:32out of here
36:34oh no he's here damn i thought you were gone
36:44everything my mom had to work through i was just happy she was alive to be there
36:52that was the path of her to it
36:57my son jared my husband robert my best friend kathy fitzpatrick i love you baby
37:06she didn't look at it as a as a great occasion because that meant you know it's all over
37:12that's one of the hardest things in the world for a lot of people is to find your your place in life
37:18when all you've ever known is wrestling and all that goes with it that's where a big part of the struggle can be
37:28although it seems her career might be over sherry spends the next year optimistic for her future in the business
37:34i was on the phone with her she was in the best mood ever
37:41she was sitting on the front porch with her mom drinking sweet tea playing with the puppy they just
37:46got and said to me i have something some news to tell you but i don't want to jinx it
37:53from what i had heard they were going to bring sherry back
37:56get her her operation get her backs fixed and they were going to have her train the women
38:02i know she wanted to go back to the wwe whether they were receptive or not to
38:07giving it to her i don't know and i guess we won't ever find out at this point
38:139 30
38:17june 15th
38:19i told that my mother passed through that i believed her sister or somebody called me
38:35and that's when i got in my vehicle and drove to alabama so i could be there
38:43and how do you feel
38:46empty
38:49empty
39:04sherry's sudden death at age 49 causes local alabama police to open an investigation
39:11she survived in the washing chair when the puts with my grandmother
39:20it just seemed so ironic that she was so happy the night before
39:28and 10 o'clock the next morning i get this phone call
39:32following a brief investigation sherry martell's death is ruled an accidental overdose
39:37i knew she could go to extremes but i i guess i did not know that it was just an ongoing life
39:45threatening problem it floored me
39:49regrettably the addiction struggles that plagued sherry's life are also on display at the funeral
39:55i know we had a few people there that were probably coked out of their mind and drugged out and whatnot
40:02i think jake was so out of his freaking mind oh my god and i think he was leaning over
40:09the casket he was just hot out of it i remember stevie ray being there and booker t but other than that i can't remember anything about it
40:20i mean i was at my very lowest right then
40:26they asked me to have a few words and i did and i remember looking at her saying how dare you leave me behind
40:34right i was angry because i thought we were friends for forever not counting dying we were just alike
40:43we both came up hard and uh we both had to fight and scratch and claw for everything
40:52she was one of my loves man you know she was somebody that i identified with and uh somebody that i
40:58cherished i honored our friendship i honored her always will
41:09sherry was my best friend
41:13i don't think anybody could ever take that friendship away from us
41:19even if she's gone i know she's with me
41:24i don't think you can think about women in wrestling and not put sherry martell at the very top of your list
41:33a lot of the fans loved and respected her maybe some of them didn't respect her enough because they
41:39didn't know the work that it took and the perseverance and the dedication it took for her to get there
41:46this is a picture that sherry gave to me at a fan fest like 20 years ago or whatever she signed to me
41:51it says to jimmy cornett remember always i was your first loving you forever sherry martell and boy she looked good
42:00it but everybody in the business had a high opinion of of sharing her talent
42:06jimmy cornett never held anything against her except for the fact that she left
42:22jared to me he's special and i do what i can to keep him going
42:30my dad my dad is a good provider my mom and my step-mom
42:38jimmy cornett loved each other loved each other she threatened to take the better person to raise me
42:49can i have her turn up here i lose her
42:56that's my eyes he's my everything this is why i'm here today
43:03she used to tell me all the time i would never find someone as good as you to take care of my son
43:20she was awesome she really was she chose her career you know
43:26my mom that's her she knew and i don't hate her through it at all i sacrificed so much in my life
43:41my family time and i'd like to know the mistakes that i made
43:49people won't remember me so much for those but for the good that i tried to do
43:53i hope people will look back and maybe learn something from my mistakes
44:03yeah yeah