Laurinaitis Family Talks the Truth About Road Warrior Animal
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Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Tommy Dreamer talk to the family of road war animal Joe Laurinaitis, Kim Laurinaitis, and Lindsay Laurinaitis. They set it straight on the A&E bio.
What insights do Kim and Lindsey Laurinaitis share about Road Warrior Animal?
of Road Warriors. Also, getting you ready for Double or Nothing this weekend with AEW, Don Callis joins us right here on the Busted Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast. The family of Joe Animal Laurenitis, and that is Kim and Lindsay Laurenitis, wife and daughter of Road Warrior Animal. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Appreciate your time.
Oh, thank you for having us.
Good morning.
Hi.
Nice to see you both.
You too.
What inaccuracies did the Laurinaitis family identify in the A&E biography?
Okay, so let me start with you, Kim. So the A&E biography, you know, and by the way, I think from watching it, Animal was definitely put in a very positive light, I felt, like in the biography itself. But I know that you went to social media after it and you were very upset and very angry because your side of the story was never told. And a lot of facts... you believe were definitely wrong that they put into the biography. So the floor is yours. You know, after watching the biography, you know, what were the main pieces of what we saw on A&E that bothered you the most?
It was kind of a combination of things. First of all, I want to apologize for going off on social media the way I did.
Well, you used all caps. So, you know, you were very angry because you used all caps.
I know. I've gotten backlash on that a lot. But it got to the first part is I didn't even know that there was going to be an episode. Yeah. The fact that I found out when the Von Eriks episode came and I saw their picture advertised on it and I started questioning it then. I was contacted last year in February about a biography coming out. WWE had contacted me. My agent had contacted them back. We were in negotiations about it and discussing it. I wanted to make sure that all of the family was going to be involved. And then their legal team took it and told us nothing. It went crickets. We contacted them several other times over All of 25. And we were basically told that it was going to be non like nothing was being done.
It would be cut maybe on the next series and nothing. So I just thought no one had filmed anything. I knew nothing of this until I saw that advertised. And I'm thinking, are they advertising for the next season or what? Started checking on it. And then find out. And it's like your sucker punch.
Kim, we lost you for a minute, but we have you back. So, so from what you said is that you were by everything that you experienced, it almost seems like you knew that at some point this show was going to happen, but probably next season, not that it wasn't going to happen. Right. Yeah. Okay.
Right. Like, and I was in hopes of it. We kept reaching out to contact them and was asking, Hey, when are we going to do this? Is it going to happen? When, how, you know, how would we do this? Cause our family is spread out amongst different states.
How did Kim Laurinaitis feel about the portrayal of her husband in the documentary?
And how would we film? Are we going to get together? Are you going to go to different places?
And that was her wish was to somehow work something where, you know, it was my dad was portrayed as such this family man, which he was. And everybody that knew him knew that. And so that was what was important to my mom was if there's a way that all of us could get together to film and that's including kids. the four siblings, the grandkids who ever wanted to. Right. That's what the response back was like, okay, like we want to do this, but we want to do this too.
Like where. To honor him, his wishes. I just, that's my whole goal in life is just to keep honoring what he would want and what would make him happy. It's not anything about, I know the backlash is about me or whatever. It has nothing to do about that. I'm here to honor him. And the way that this was done, yeah, did it hurt me personally? Absolutely. Because then you get a lot of backlash back from like, were you really his wife? What was all of that? And I thought he died on your anniversary in a hotel.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:19
2
What insights do Kim and Lindsey Laurinaitis share about Road Warrior Animal?
0:19–0:56
3
What inaccuracies did the Laurinaitis family identify in the A&E biography?
0:56–3:38
4
How did Kim Laurinaitis feel about the portrayal of her husband in the documentary?
3:38–5:45
5
What were the Laurinaitis family's expectations for the A&E biography?
5:45–17:07
6
How did the Laurinaitis family plan to honor Road Warrior Animal's legacy?
17:07–19:44
7
What challenges did the family face regarding the biography's production?
19:44–20:46
8
What emotional impact did Road Warrior Animal's passing have on his family?
20:46–31:58