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I was married for 15 years. I have three children: my son Berkley, who's my oldest, my daughter Bailey, the middle one and Bo Wyatt, that's my youngest boy.  I love them all! They're great! I got a divorce after 15 years.

 

There’s a woman that I knew that used to be a friend of mine when I was in Tennessee - she was just a friend at that point.  More on that later.  After wrestling, I wound up teaching all kinds of work-related safety courses.  I was schooled for that type of work. Like I said previously, I've been working all my life. Aside from the wrestling, I worked a lot since I was 11 years old. Real jobs. The lady that I worked for set me up on Facebook.  She said: “You’ll like this!  Facebook is good!”  I’m computer illiterate so I didn’t know what it was.

 

Then boom!  People started sending me messages! One message said: “Are you who I think you are?” And I'm like: “I don't know!” I talked to her. Her name's Sheila Ann, that friend I’ve just mentioned. She was very good to me when I worked back in the day in Tennessee with my partner Goliath.

 

She was divorced and she lived in the same complex as us. In the summertime, we used to playfully throw her boys in the pool in the early afternoon, and we'd go off to wrestle at night.  We started talking.  She was really nice.  And then, she came down to see me a few times and we continued seeing each other. She'd come down to Florida when she wasn't working (she did some catering for big events in Nashville, Tennessee.)

She ran three huge restaurants here for the people she worked for, but she did all the country music events, golf tournaments and all that kind of stuff… about 3 to 4 million dollars in catering a year at that point in time. But on the weekends, she'd get away. She'd go to Panama City, Florida or elsewhere.  She started coming down and seeing me a day or two, here and there.  She's wonderful.  At that time in my life, I’d been separated for a couple years.

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Eventually, down the road, I married her.  In 2025, we’ve celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary! She's awesome!  She's, my best friend, my business partner.  She’s a loving person and a smart businesswoman. She has her own stuff that she does in Florida. We split our time between Nashville and St-Petersburg.

 

She has three children that are much older than mine. I don’t have grandkids from my children. Thank goodness - I still see them as children!  My oldest boy, Berkley, works for WWE, does television production, production for them. He, uh, went through wrestling school and he, uh, is an incredible referee on top of everything else. He's learned a whole lot from his coworkers at WWE and FCW, which is where he started.  Then Triple-H asked to him to go to NXT when they moved from Tampa over to Orlando.  Then he went to the main roster; he was working both shows at one time.

 

Between Sheila Ann and I, we have 6 children, 12 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. I’m proud of all of them! Her kids didn't know they were going to get me as a family member!  Her children love me.  Who knows… had we been more than friends all those years, we may have been married 30 years now!  I’ve got a great family, and I love all of them.

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