by Kevin Nash has opened up about the death of his son, Tristen.
Tristen Nash died on October 19 at the age of 26. In an episode of Kliq This released Monday, Kevin Nash opened up about the days leading up to his passing.
“This Wednesday morning, my son passed away,” Nash said on the show.
Nash revealed that his son suffered cardiac arrest due to a seizure.
“The seizure caused cardiac arrest. He was basically dead in his bedroom on the floor with a paramedic working on him and they picked him up, got him into the ambulance and tried to save his life. So, to the people of Halifax Hospital, doctors and nurses, thank you.”
“We both decided we were going to quit drinking. So it was a situation where we both fell apart. I don’t think either of us felt good because you quit drinking. coffee for a day and you have a headache. I think we both had to deal with it, but also because we’re so close to the cruise lines here, norovirus is still around.”
Nash was asked what made him and his son decide to quit drinking.
“He had had a few incidents and we sat here last Wednesday and during the show he drank four or five beers, unbeknownst to me.”
Nash went on to say he “got pissed off” at his son for drinking beers because Tristen had alcohol issues.
“He had this situation at the beginning of the year where he was hospitalized for almost 60 days. It’s my cross to bear, it’s alcoholism.”
He would go on to say that alcoholism took a friend of his last year, contributed to the death of his friend, Scott Hall, and has now taken Tristen.
“It took Scott, and now he’s my son,” Nash continued.
“Alcohol is such a nasty drug, and it is a drug. Anyone, if you haven’t been drinking, you’ve probably done yourself an amazing service,” Nash would say later on the show.
“I’ve spent half my life glorifying the world of rock n roll, charging, drinking, drug partying, wrestling that I grew up and lived in and I ‘I really need to take a step back from this and go, ‘You’re part of the problem, Nash, you’re glorifying a lifestyle that kills people and you need to stop doing that.’
Nash would go on to talk about Tristen having a high IQ as well as Asperger’s Syndrome.
“My son had autism. My son had Asperger’s, my son was very educated, with a very high IQ, but my son had autism on top of all these things.”
“My wife and I learned a lot from him because he was always exploring and investigating.”
Nash then commented on people who reached out to him during that time, including Vince Russo, Ric Flair and Vince McMahon.
“Vince [Russo] and I spoke on the twitter direct message. He was very, very nice,” Nash said.
“I got a message, it was a number from Connecticut, and it wasn’t in my phone. I said it was probably someone from the office and I started to read it and c was Vince (McMahon). He said, ‘This is my new number, you need me, I’m here.'”
Ric Flair lost his son Reid in 2013 at the age of 25 and also reached out to Nash.
“rick [Flair] reached out to me and I reached out, I said, ‘Can you talk?’ and he said, ‘Of course’ so I went by the pool and said, ‘how did you do with Reid?’ And we went and that’s what makes it work, not a therapist who’s going to look at me and not be able to look past my tattooed arm or the fact that I was a mediocre wrestler.”
“Ric gave me some really good advice,” he continued.
Nash would also say his son helped him through the taping of this episode.
“I wanted to break this whole show, he won’t let me,” Nash continued. “He’s just like, ‘Dad, this is what we have to do.'”
“I was really looking forward to spending my golden years with my boy. I’ll find ways to try and stay connected,” Nash said near the end of the show.
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