Disgraced wrestling icon Tammy ‘Sunny’ Sytch fears she will die in prison, but one former colleague is less than sympathetic.
51-year-old Sytch is currently serving a 17-year prison sentence and battling health issues – a far cry from her grappling heyday with WWE.
In the mid-1990s she was the ultimate crush for wrestling fans all over the world, thanks mostly to her run with what was then the WWF as Sunny.
Now, she’s behind bars having been sentenced to the 17-and -a-half-year stretch in 2023, having pleaded no contest to, among other charges, driving under the influence and causing the death of another person.
It followed a tragic incident in March 2022 that, according to police reports, saw Sytch crash at high speed into the rear of a car that had stopped at traffic lights, killing a 75-year-old man.
Toxicology reports later found that her blood alcohol level was three-and-a-half times the legal limit at the time of the crash.
It followed a string of arrests for the one-time glamourous star over the years, and a previous spell in prison in the US a decade ago.
Sunny is also battling ill health having recently been transferred to a new Florida prison.
Plagued by what she claims is a blood clot, she told TMZ the issue had left her leg looking like: “somebody put a bicycle tyre pump on it and just inflated it twice the size.”
She added to the outlet that, despite being given blood thinners to combat the issue, she fears she’ll die behind bars, saying: “All that’s been going through my mind for the past three weeks is, ‘Oh, my God, I’m going to follow in [my ex-husband’s] footsteps and die of a blood clot just like he did because I can’t get medical treatment at this prison.’”
The New Jersey native was unlikely to be looking for mass sympathy for her plight, which is just as well, as it was far from forthcoming from one former colleague.
ECW legend Justin Credible, on a reply to one report of Sunny’s plight, swiped back with a stinging reply that left his feelings crystal clear.
“Well karma’s a b****,” read a post on the veteran’s X account.
Credible, who also wrestled in WWE as Aldo Montoya in the mid-1990s, has never been short of a curt word or two for Sunny having previously spoken out about what he feels was her abuse of former wrestler boyfriend Chris Candido.
A renowned manager, interviewer and on-screen personality, bubbly Sunny burst on to screens with Vince McMahon’s company in 1995.
First Candido as part of the Bodydonnas, whom she led to tag team championship glory, she went on to be the on-screen guide to the careers of teams like The Godwins and The Smoking Gunns.
She eventually broke out as a star in her own right as a host and interviewer – notably becoming AOL’s most downloaded woman – surpassing the likes of mainstream legends Pamela Anderson and Mariah Carey.
After a brief stint managing a returning Legion of Doom at WrestleMania in 1998, Sunny joined Candido at ECW in the late 1990s before spells in WCW and the independents.
She was inducted into WWE’s Hall of Fame in 2011 but, since her wrestling glory days, has sadly never been far from controversy.
As things stand it will be 2040 before she’s eligible for release.
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