Shawn McGrath's Suicide Note 28.1.2011
Posted by David Damage on Thursday, November 17, 2011
Under: News
Stacy
Carter (a/k/a Miss Kitty and The Kat) posted former WWE developmental
wrestler Shawn McGrath (a/k/a "Badseed" Shawn Osborne) suicide note
below. Read at your own discretion:
To all who care:
Just so everyone knows, this had nothing to do with the Bears losing on
Sunday. I have never been that emotionally invested into any sport where
I would end my life over a loss. To me, it’s just a game and only a
game and I made my mind up about this a while ago. This was being
thought about prior to the playoffs even starting, so it wasn’t a snap
decision and would not have mattered if they made it to the Super Bowl
or not. I spent a lot of time this season either at a bar or here at
home watching Bears games but, for a lot of reasons, I was never able to
get excited about the playoffs. It just didn’t seem to matter to me. I
feel I have been missing something. There has been a lot of love,
passion, and emotion that has been ripped out of my body over the past
several months and I hope the following pages will shed some light on
why this all happened………
I am sure you are all asking yourself
WHY? For me, this is something that I have thought about A LOT and
decided it was time for me to “check out”. I cannot deal with the
negative emotions anymore. I cannot continue to go through life with a
broken heart. It’s just way too painful. I have tried to be positive and
upbeat but I am hurting way too much. How many times can I continue to
pick myself up after being knocked down over and over again and still
remain positive? Believe me, I’ve tried…..numerous times. All I think
about is putting an end to this. I have been sleeping in longer than I
ever have before, I don’t eat much, and I just don’t have any motivation
to do anything anymore, including going to the gym. I have even been
staying home from work because of this, and I like my job! Some might
say that I am taking the “easy way out”. Maybe I am, maybe I‘m not. For
me, it’s just time to go. We are all destined for death whether its
today, tomorrow, or fifty years from now. There is no avoiding it. Human
society is horrendous these days and continues to get worse year by
year. I am tired of people taking my kindness for weakness and walking
all over me while I “turn the other cheek” or be the better person. I am
not weak! Over the past few years, I have consciously changed myself to
be a more positive, happy, upbeat person but, it’s nearly impossible to
stay that way with the people in this world. All I wanted in life was
to be happy but that cant happen. Negativity and fake people make me
sick. I didn’t do this for “revenge” on anyone specifically either,
although some people may think that because that’s how highly they want
to think of themselves. There have been a couple of situations in the
past year that have been devastating to me that I can’t seem to get
over, especially the most recent one. (My friends who I am very close
with know what those things are.) In the past year I have gone from
being happy to miserable and then being elevated to a level of happiness
I have never been at before only to be manipulated, lied to, worked
over and eventually sent to the breaking point. That is where I am at
right now. Those two instances are not the only reasons for this but,
they have hugely contributed to my final downfall. Jennifer Key and Amy
Presley/Santee or whatever she wants to be called, are their names.
Jennifer is just a worthless cunt and gutless human being. What she did
to me was unspeakable and uncalled for. Amy, on the other hand was
awesome…...for a while. Then, she showed her true colors. She not only
worked me over but, she even worked over my friends Nick and Stacy too.
She made us believe that she was the real deal but we ended up becoming
suckers. She even presided over their wedding for Christ sake! In the
end, she turned out to be a phony, fake, stuck up, pretentious, selfish,
greedy, spiteful little snob. When she doesn’t get her way (meaning
when you don’t buy her things everyday during her “birthday month“) she
turns her back on you and gives you the silent treatment and makes you
feel like an asshole for not doing so. I have never been around anyone
who thought that their birthday was for an entire month and felt
entitled to have something done for them every single day of that month.
That is 100% true! She went from one extreme to another telling me one
day, she loved me, to the next day saying she wasn’t ready to be in any
kind of relationship, back to telling me she loved me and wanted me in
her life the day after that. It’s this kind of behavior that continued
to destroy my already fragile heart. Even after all of her erratic
behavior, I tried to make nice with her and be the adult, and at the
very least have a friendly rapport with her but, she snubbed me again
and gave me the cold shoulder treatment. She is just one, in a long line
of people I wish had never been brought into my life. She liked to use
big words like “love” all of the time around me but, she doesn’t know
what “love” truly is. It’s pathetic. I have been dating a lot recently
but because of recent experiences, there is no way I could ever trust a
woman in that capacity again. My heart has had enough.
*I do want to make something perfectly clear. She is not the sole reason I am doing this, but is a contributor.*
The lack of relationship I have had with my parents and siblings since
my childhood along with the end of my WWE dream have also contributed. I
have NEVER had any kind of relationship with my Dad, which is all his
fault. He used intimidation and anger as a way to communicate with me
when I was real young which made me not ever want to be around him. I
never enjoyed being around him, EVER! Growing up, I saw how both my
parents treated the rest of my siblings and their kids by trying to
control how they lived their lives and I made it a promise to myself
that it would never happen to me. I have separated myself from my family
because I knew I would be a better person for it, and I have. I have
stayed away from the drama and bullshit that comes along with being a
McGrath. My brothers and sisters did nothing but complain about my
parents behavior towards them as I grew up but none of them had the guts
to do anything about it. I did. In 2002, I moved away from home to
pursue a wrestling career, that my parents never encouraged me on. They
never wanted me to pursue anything unless they liked it themselves. My
Mom wanted to keep me held up in their house forever and not let me
explore the world. I got up and left and four years later I signed a WWE
contract. At this point, I do forgive my parents for everything and
that’s important. From the time I was twelve years old, I wanted to be
on my own. I was always seeking my independence as a person. I didn’t
want to be around my parents for a lot of reasons. There was a huge age
gap and they just couldn’t relate to me in any way. For most of my life,
I did feel like an only child but that’s no ones fault. We lived on
opposite sides of the country from each other. I had no immediate
contact with anyone and my parents just were too old to relate to
anything I was going through. I have no issues with any of my brothers
or sisters either. I appreciate my brother Gary taking me in for a few
months when I first moved to Ohio. It helped a lot. I do appreciate
several of my other brothers and sisters trying to reach out to me over
the years but I just did not want to get involved. I have chosen not to
communicate with any of my siblings because I didn’t want to come across
like I was favoring one sibling over another. It has been best for me
to do that. I don’t have any ill will towards any of them.
Another factor in all of this is the fact that I feel that I have
accomplished everything that I want to in life. I know I am 34 years old
but that’s how I feel. I set out to become a pro wrestler and work for
the WWE, and I did! I am happy with what I accomplished and am thankful
for the wonderful friendships that I have made over the years but, I am
just not a happy man. For some reason, continued happiness seems to
elude me. I can get it for a little while but something always happens
that takes it away. I can’t keep going on like this. Why should I? This
is a good time to move on. I know this is hard for my friends to
understand but, realize this, I don’t want to live on for another 40-50
years being miserable and unhappy. I don’t want to have to have to deal
with money issues, work, women, or any of life’s other problems. I don’t
want to keep getting burned by crazy, whacked out girls who won’t grow
up and who are afraid to be honest with me or themselves. I feel that is
just a waist. At work, I speak to people all day long that are either
unemployed, disabled, or old and just spend their life sitting around
doing nothing. I can’t do that. It’s depressing. My big dream in life
was pursued and accomplished. I have no others that could even come
close to it and you can’t make me like something or force me to pursue
something that I don’t want to do just to keep me from killing myself.
There is nothing any of my friends could say or do that would change my
decision to pull the trigger. I’m sorry. I have tried the self help
books and tried to surround myself with positive people but there just
isn’t enough. There is too much negative energy out there and it’s too
hard to overcome it. I have been dating quite a bit recently but I
cannot trust anyone that I go out with. I cannot fully open my heart to
someone and take another chance on it being broken again. I don’t have
anything left inside of me for that. The shit that I have dealt with in
the past eight months has been enough to push me over the edge and
finally put an end to it, my way. Too many people taking my kindness for
weakness? Yes. Too many people trying to take advantage of me? Yes. Too
many people being selfish, untruthful and manipulative? Yes.
I
bought a gun on my own. It’s my constitutional right to bear arms.
Don’t blame the store I bought it at for any of this. I had absolutely,
positively no intention, desire, want, to use this gun on anyone else
except for myself. I don’t think I could ever bring myself to shooting
someone else, even on the ones that have hurt me over the years. I don’t
have that kind of hatred inside of me. I would rather just use one
bullet on myself and be done with it.
The following is for my close friends……
Nick and Mike (Titan) - The two of you are my brothers. We have
traveled up and down the road together in WWE and put together one hell
of a freak show. I know that you guys always had my back and I always
had yours.
Nick - You are one of the best people I have ever
known. I wish I could have been half as nice and personable as you are. I
always felt honored to be your friend. You are the most outgoing,
ambitious, and nicest person I know. We both confided in each other over
the years both personally and professionally and I am proud to have had
a friend like you in my life. You are a tremendous person and I am so
glad you and Stacy found each other and found happiness together. You,
more than anyone, deserves it. I wish I could have found that kind of
happiness, but it wasnt in the cards for me. I miss you and Stacy a ton.
I hope to God that you make millions of dollars entertaining people all
around the world. I love you two! "Stay gold Ponyboy stay gold."
Mike - I remember the first time I saw you I thought to myself, “holy
shit, that guy is huge!”. Lol How many times have you and I laughed our
asses off over the years from episodes of Family Guy? Like Nick, I was
always proud to be your friend. You and I have always been friends and I
hope all of your dreams come true. Stay positive and have a good
attitude and the sky is the limit for you buddy. I left something for
you in an envelope here in my apartment. It’s got your name on it. Love
ya buddy, Giggity giggity.
George Geronsin - Hey budday!
Another brother of mine. You and I became instant friends while working
at Best Buy together over a decade ago and have been great friends
since. We have never had an argument or fight with each other over the
years. You are one of the funniest, caring, people out there. So many
good memories with you. So many fun times. The time I spent with you and
Pat in Chicago was the best time away from home I have ever had.
Sneaking into Wrigley Field together, playing Monopoly, and visiting
Soldier Field to watch the Bears was awesome! I know this isn’t easy for
you right now and believe me, it’s not easy for me writing this. I know
I could always count on your support over the years and making me feel
good when I needed it. You have a great life with Kristina and your
beautiful daughters and please continue to do so. I don’t want you or
Reece or anyone else to think that you could have prevented me from
doing this. No one could have. An intervention would not have worked.
You have meant a lot to me. I love you budday! Go Bears!
Reece
Wells - We have had a ton of laughs over the years, usually at each
others expense and usually during NFL playoff time. I still laugh my ass
off when I think about the times when George and I would call you the
second the Steelers would lose a playoff game and rub it in your face. I
remember during the first couple of years I moved to Ohio that I could
always call you and get advise from you when things were down for me. It
was hard for me to be so far away at times and I always wished you and
George were around to make me feel better. You have been like my black
older brother and I sincerely appreciate your friendship. Go Steelers!
Jayson Flannery - It has been over two years since you and I have
actually spoken or communicated. I cannot explain it. I didn’t have any
issues with you. I think around the time in November 2008 that it
started, I was still in a state of unhappiness and depression from my
stint with WWE. I wasn’t happy with myself at that time either. With
your wedding coming up, I felt a bit embarrassed and ashamed of myself
that I could not make my way out to Phoenix to celebrate with you and
Chey, that I just decided to stay home. I have had a much different
friendship with you than anyone else over the years. It was good, bad,
and sometimes non existent. I choose to remember all of the fun times we
had over the years like working together at Target, Answer City, Sears,
and Best Buy. I still can’t believe we never got fired from anyone of
those places with the shit we pulled off. Lol We spent a lot of time
watching the Diamondbacks games back in the day, playing basketball,
hitting baseballs, or just playing video games. I want to also thank
your Mom and Dad for always making me welcomed in their home. I always
got along with your parents and enjoyed having your Dad come out to
baseball games or to the bars with us. It made things more fun. There
were so many times that I use to wish that my parents were more like
yours. That was the norm for me. I would get along with and have more in
common with my friends parents then with my own. It’s just the way it
was. I am happy for you and Chey. I am happy I have been able to
communicate with her through Facebook to find out how things are. Take
care of each other. This might be harder for you than any other one of
my friends because this isn’t the first time you have had to go through
this. Bro, this has been brewing for years and years. I always knew I
would never, ever be fully happy in life. It‘s something I felt at a
younger age. It’s going to be hard to except and yes, there are a few
people to blame for it, especially now. Try and understand that I cannot
keep this up anymore. I have really tried. I was sooo happy for a while
but, the way things go in my life, happiness was short lived. It might
be karma or just my destiny for this to happen. I just don’t want to be
miserable and depressed forever and I know you don’t want me that way
either. I have nothing to look forward to in life and just take solace
in the fact that I wont be an old miserable fuck. I want to be buried in
the Mark McGwire jersey that you gave me along with the Brian Urlacher
jersey. I think the Urlacher over the McGwire will work. If I am not
buried, then you can have the jersey back if you want it. Just keep
anything relating to Jay Cutler or Bret Favre away from me….ha ha! I
love you pal! Take care of Chey too.
Lauren - You have been a
great friend to me over the years. I wish nothing but the best for you
and your family. You are one of very, very few people that I still keep
in contact with from the time I spent living in Ohio and I am glad that
you came into my life. Take care of that family of yours and be happy.
For my wrestling family…..Stacy, Spears, Chet, Kruhl, Al Snow, Rory,
Domino, Les Thatcher, Cody Hawk, Stryker, Neikirk, Santos, Navajo, Metal
Matt O’Neil, Chris Gray and Bonnie….Thank you for your knowledge,
advise, encouragement, friendship, love and humor.
Lexie and
Scott - Thank you for your friendship and hospitality over the past
couple of years. I cannot put into words how much that has meant to me.
Both of you are tremendous human beings and I only wish that there were
more like you in this world.
Thanks to everyone I worked with
at Asset Acceptance. Thank you Travis Williams for hiring me three years
ago and giving me the opportunity to work there. It’s been the best job
and best company I have ever worked for. Dan Maresma - Fellow Bears
fan. Thanks for being such a great friend. I appreciate it more than you
will ever know. You are a great man and I have envied you in a lot of
ways. Stay positive and remember, it’s not how much you make, but how
much you save.
As far as any final requests, I have a few.
Don’t ruin a suit if you plan on burying me. Blue jeans, sneakers, and
my McGwire jersey underneath the Urlacher jersey is what I want. I have
left a CD of a song I want played at my funeral. It is a Metallica song
entitled “Nothing Else Matters, the elevator version”. It’s a very rare
song so don’t lose the CD or make a couple of copies of it. Whoever is
in charge of the funeral, don’t make it some long drawn out boring
Catholic funeral either….like weddings. My people don’t like that stuff
and neither do I. Over the years, I have become more of a spiritualist
than anything and realize that Catholicism isn’t the end all be all of
religions. There are so many people with so many views on God and faith
that I don’t want to have anyone feel uncomfortable because the
Catholics are in charge. Have some fun with it. Watch episodes of Family
Guy, South Park and listen to Metallica music. Watch some wrestling
matches from the mid-80’s……..when it was good, not like the crap on TV
today. As far as my personal possessions go, I want my friends to have
first crack at whatever they want. Draw straws or names out of a hat.
Please respect my final wishes and make sure they are done properly and
without drama. *Also, please don’t try and blame any music that I listen
to for this either which I know some of my relatives will do. Music has
been a huge motivational factor in my life and I don’t know if I would
have made it this long without it.*
FYI - The only drug I have
in my system is Zoloft and it’s a prescription. You can thank the two
girls I mentioned at the beginning of this letter as the reason for me
taking it. I have never, ever been a “drug guy”. I was never interested
in experimenting or using any type of illegal drugs that were just going
to mess up my mind further. All of this happening right now is me,
sober. No drugs, no alcohol. How many people out there in this world can
go through the shit I have and not take any drugs? Especially, a
wrestler!? Check my blood, it’s clean and I am proud of that.
I
am also an organ donor and I want my organs to go to people that truly
need them to survive and continue living. I am happy in the fact that my
healthy living over the years can potentially save several other lives
in the future.
I made a couple of donations this week to some
local charities that I really like and would encourage as many of you to
donate what you can to them too. Here they are……The Humane Society,
Metropolitan Ministries, Save the Manatee Club, and Suncoast Law
Enforcement Charities. Two St. Petersburg officers were killed in action
on Monday and their families need all of the help they can get.
Love and peace….
Shawn McGrath
2030 Plantation Key Circle # 207
Brandon, FL 33511
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