WWE Legend Eddie Guerrero’s Daughter Sherilyn Guerrero Opens Up About Chris Benoit Tragedy, ‘Chris Benoit Was An Uncle To Me Truly, I Never Had Any Bad Experiences’

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Sherilyn Guerrero, the daughter of WWE legend Eddie Guerrero, has opened up about her feelings on the Chris Benoit tragedy.

Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit were known to be incredibly close friends, and it’s long been said that Benoit had issues stemming from when Eddie passed away.

Following Eddie’s passing in November 2005, Benoit, in June 2007 on the weekend of WWE Vengeance, killed his wife Nancy, their son Daniel and himself, leading to WWE has erasing him from history as much as possible.

In an interview on the Smooth Vega podcast, Eddie’s daughter Sherilyn Guerrero, who started her own wrestling career last year, opened up about the Benoit tragedy from her perspective.

She said:

“It’s a tragic thing that happened. I remember I was in Corpus Christi with my mom. We were at the arena, everyone was waiting on him to show up. It was hard.

“But my interactions with Chris were great. My dad really made sure that wrestlers felt safe around him, and that they could relax. And I feel like that’s what really tore (Benoit) apart, was not having that safe space anymore.

“For how long they’d known each other, even before I was born, Chris and Nancy, they were family.

“So I always talk about Chris because I have my personal experiences, like anybody does on this earth, and has the right to talk about their experiences.

“I get, with the business, it hits hard, it’s not something they highlight because of what he did and where that all came from. That business was wild back then. It was a wild business. Luckily they reeled it in a bit.

“Chris Benoit was an uncle to me truly. I never had any bad experiences. He was a joy to be around, run around with the kids.

“Daniel, little Daniel, he was an angel. Nancy was my mom’s best friend, and she’d come on her own just to hang out at the house.

“They did love each other from what I saw, and Chris loved us so much, and we loved him. Truly.

“That’s how hard it was, and shocking, because we just had these interactions that truly I don’t think a lot of people saw or knew about, or could even understand.

“A lot of people, like on my dad, they speak on what they feel they know. ‘Oh, your dad died on steroids.’ No, my dad died from heart failure because he got sober and all the heavy drugs he did catches up.

“Chris went through a lot after my dad passed away. And I just feel like it just shows the safe space that my dad was for a lot of people, to where they really respected him to say, ‘Eddie really showed us God, he showed us love.’

“I never have an issue talking about Chris because I think that the media and people will always amplify what they feel they know. And if I can share that he loved me and he really did, and I had nothing but good interactions, then I’m gonna do that.

“Just because it was a tragedy and it’s sad and it breaks my heart, but I had nothing but love.”

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