Nancy Grace is at the center of controversy after insinuating that the deaths of The Ultimate Warrior and Owen Hart had to do with steroids and drug use during an interview with Diamond Dallas Page, drawing the ire of many people around the internet, including everyone's favorite Twitter ranter The Iron Sheik.
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Grace had Page on to discuss The Warrior's passing after he collapsed in a hotel hallway in Arizona and died of an apparent heart attack on Tuesday, just a day after appearing on WWE Monday Night RAW and enjoying a WrestleMania XXX weekend that included an appearance at the actual show and his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.
While Warrior has admitted to past steroid use and it could have possibly lead to his apparent heart attack, he reportedly wasn't on drugs at the time. Grace accused him of doing drugs at the time of his death and showed a list of names of wrestlers who died young, insinuating that they were all on steroids and drugs, a list which included Owen Hart.
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Hart passed away tragically in May 1999 at the WWE's Over the Edge pay-per-view when he fell to his death from the rafters. Hart was never once accused of taking steroids, yet Grace's list implied he may have been on drugs when he died.
"So many wrestlers dead," she told DDP on her show while the list of names scrolled on the screen. "Now accusations of steroids and illegal drugs swirling...The effects of drugs and steroids after using them of years and years sticks with you."
She then brought in a doctor who explained the dangers of steroids.
Page talked about seeing The Warrior the weekend before his death.
"I just saw him at the Hall of Fame and he looked great but you don't always know what's going on on the inside," he told Grace. "...He still worked out like he was 20 years old."
DDP then defended The Warrior --who is a known steroid user in the past and has admitted to it --saying that a lot of people used steroids and that not everyone has died from it while he also said that it's not a fact that drugs were a factor in his passing.
The Iron Sheik took to Twitter to attack Grace after she showed the list with Hart's name in it.
"Nancy Grace YOU FAT DUMB B---H I beat the f--- out of you talk bad about my wrestling brother. GO F--- YOURSELF YOU DEAD DOG W---E"
Hart's older brother Smith then made a statement on Facebook.
"I think our beloved sister-in-law Martha [Owen's widow] as well as my entire family should be tremendously offended by the implication of Nancy Grace that my brother Owens demise had anything to do with drugs or steroids. For her to attempt to capitalize on Warrior's death while his family grieves for personal choices he may have made more than 20 years ago is a sad to day for what passes as journalism today. Breaking news; Many rock stars snorted cocaine in the 80's. Perhaps we should shut down the entire music industry. We should not buy into any of their such ridiculous libelous statements. We will hear official details from the coroner this weekend and not from some gossip journalist."
While autopsy results will come in eventually, The Warrior's death still remains mysterious.
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