Shawn Michaels: "I'm just going to - um - just gonna get right to it. The economy hit all of us very hard and unfortunately I am not immune to it. I'm in a very tough spot right now and I've heard all the whispers, believe me: 'Shawn Michaels, he's a WWE Superstar. He's on TV, he's rich! There's no way this could happen to him, this is just coming out of nowhere.' And believe me, I wish that was the case. But you know, like a lot of 20-year-olds, when I came into money, I lived the high life. I bought houses, cars, motorcycles and I gave a hand out to every high school buddy who needed it. And in my thirties, the injuries began to mount up and because of - I don't know - stubbornness or foolish pride I wasn't about to ask anybody for help. I paid for all my knee surgeries, I paid for all my back surgeries, because I wasn't about to be beholding any man or any company for the rest of my life.
Like ten years ago, I met my wife and we had two beautiful children and I turned my life around. And I did what I thought was a grown-up thing to do: I called an investment service and they invested my money in the stock market and everything went great for a while. I could provide for my family, I took care of all my friends and relatives, I gave to my church, I supported all the charities that I love and believe in. It was pretty simple: I had, they didn't, so I gave. And then the roof caved in. ...
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