Perry Saturn Details 2004 Shooting Incident & How It Changed His Life

Veteran wrestler Perry Saturn recently detailed the 2004 shooting incident that changed his life forever. During a recent appearance on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, Saturn, who was dealing with drug abuse issues at the time, revealed that he had gone to a hotel adjacent to a strip club to score drugs when he heard a woman screaming.

Saturn subsequently intervened, but he ended up getting shot in the collarbone, something he didn’t immediately realize, and the police had to force him to get into the ambulance. Perry disappeared from the public eye after the traumatizing incident, and he addressed the impact it had on his life that he had just started rebuilding. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Perry Saturn on the 2004 Shooting Incident

“There’s a strip club. I can’t remember the name of it, and right next door is the hotel, and the guy I get drugs from is there. So I’m going to the hotel to get high, and I hear somebody screaming. My dumbass, I think it’s two strippers fighting. So I figured I’m going to check this out, and I just stumbled on it, and it lasted a few seconds. I didn’t even know I got shot. I thought the guy hit me, not because I’m tough, but because I was in shock.

“I got in the neck, and right here you can feel the hole. My collarbone’s gone because I got shot right here, and I didn’t realize it. The police actually had to argue with me to get me in the ambulance because I didn’t think I needed to go. Just because you go in shock. My memory’s very unclear, and I kind of remember. I know what happened, but it’s not a clear picture in my mind. Because, like I said, I remember telling the cops that I thought he punched me in the neck, and I kept going, ‘No, I just got hit because I got shot in the shoulder, and my body spun.’ I thought, ‘Oh, we’re fighting,’ and then I got shot in the neck, and my eyes watered, and my legs buckled, and I thought, ‘Oh, f*ck, I’m going to get my a*s kicked. I better get my sh*t together!’ Then the cops were there, and there’s a big one. Guy ran and got away and never got caught. The other guy went to jail, and while he was in jail got killed.”

On How It Impacted His Life

“Now it made my life so much better. Then I thought it ruined it. I went from, I had a nice house, a nice car and was just getting ready to start wrestling again. I was just recovering from knee surgery, and I went from that to homeless. Hiding, didn’t want anybody to know who I was; it’s very embarrassing. It just happens so fast, and once it starts happening, you get to a point where you don’t care. F*ck it, this is it. This is my life.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Perry Saturn details the origins of the infamous Moppy storyline. Check his comments RIGHT HERE.