From PWInsider
I was wondering how you feel about the latest Tammy Sytch situation given how much you've written and reported on her issues?
Honestly, when I learned, I was sick to my stomach.
Over the last few years, I've had friends of Sytch tell me I've been too hard on her, that she has a problem, that I should "respect" Chris Candido by not writing about her issues (yes, seriously), and that I had a "Vendetta" against Sytch.
None of that was even remotely true. My fear, in all of this, as I have said numerous times in audio discussions in our Elite section, was that with every arrest, things were getting progressively worse and that in the end, she was going to kill someone or herself. Yet, at every step, she was given an out and allowed to resume her life, despite numerous instances of having warrants out for her arrest because she didn't actually show up in court to face the criminal charges against her.
I am not shocked to hear someone died, but I am horrified by it. We could all see it coming and it was voiced here on the site numerous times by both Dave Scherer and myself.
Sytch went from incidents where she drove into a ditch and drove the wrong way into a Wal-Mart parking lot in PA (including one instance where she publicly lied and said she wasn't arrested, although she was) to incidents where she hit another car and tried to flee the police in separate instances in New Jersey. Now, in Florida, someone has died, a grandfather, who didn't deserve his last moments on this planet to be sitting stopped waiting to drive and then be struck from behind at a high rate of speed.
Yes, innocent until proven guilty and she hasn't (yet) been charged criminally, but anyone who looks at the history knows the pattern here and we know damn well that Sytch did not have a driver's license, as she's not allowed to have one. Hell, she didn't have one previous times she was arrested! She was facing 11 charges in New Jersey when the latest incident happened in Florida on 3/25 and that didn't stop her. What we have seen here is how easy it is for someone to ignore the law, and even pending criminal trial, when they want to.
My wish in all this is that this was the last incident I ever have to write about, that Sytch be placed somewhere that prevents her from ever being able to drive again and that criminal charges be brought against whoever let her drive their car in Florida. I also think the Judges in PA and New Jersey should face great scrutiny for allowing her, at different points over the years, to walk free while there were pending charges, allowing continued repeat offenses.
Sytch's legacy should have been that she opened the door for the prototypical diva in WWE, but instead her legacy will be arrests in PA, New Jersey, Connecticut and now, the sad death of a man who deserved better, and it's her own fault. She had numerous chances and endless friends willing to help her when she had those chances given to her. She threw all those away, hasn't acted responsible towards the chances she was given (right now, she still owes $4,000 in court costs and counting in PA and hasn't tried to make a payment in years) and now, for the love of God, someone died because she was on the road.
When the toxicology results come in, someone will try to say to me that she needed help or it's a shame. To each and every one of you who will reach out, I will say this - what if it was your father or grandfather she struck? She had the help. She slapped it away, over and over and over and over.
What happened to Tammy Sytch is not a shame. She squandered everything life offered her in my opinion and now a man is dead.
The true tragedy is the death of that man, not the downward spiral of Sytch's career and life.
As someone who nearly died in 2001 because some a-hole kid was racing and hit the car I was in head-on, I remain sick to my stomach over this situation and I will for a long, long time. This didn't have to happen. But, it did and that's on Tammy. No one else.
Right now, as I post this, Sytch has been on social media attacking fans, looking to buy a "cheap kitchen cabinet" (yes, seriously) and attacking Dr. Tom Prichard, of all people. She's moving on like life is all fine and normal, which is insane to me. What is also insane to me is that right now, as I write this, she's also free to get in someone's car and drive away, right now. That scares the living sh** out of me, and it will continue to scare the sh** out of me until she's in a place where no one else can be hurt or killed due to her choices and actions.
It should scare you too.
