A documentary on the life and career of the late Chris Candido is set to be released sometime in 2016, and an extended trailer is now available above. Mick Foley, Balls Mahoney and Shane Douglas are among the wrestlers interviewed for the project.
Following news of the project, Candido’s long-time girlfriend Tammy “Sunny” Sytch lashed out at the Candido family on Twitter. She was not asked to be part of the documentary.
Sytch accuses Candido’s brother of being a drug addict, and claims she has never used a recreational drug in her life. She went on to say that “no one loved [Candido] more than [her].” Her claims contradict numerous first-hand stories from wrestlers on YouTube (1, 2, 3, 4) about her cheating on Candido, sometimes in exchange for recreational drugs.
Here’s what she had to say on Twitter:
total bull shit… no one loved him more than me…do not support the people who never gave a shit about him https://t.co/VMxBVMundm
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) December 12, 2015
just stop. when his mother said 'you should have died, not my son', I broke away from them. They blamed me… https://t.co/W02rKX0guD
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) December 12, 2015
It was a blood clot.. There was nothing I could have done. But they all blamed me for his death https://t.co/QWq1Re0XXK
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) December 12, 2015
They were my 'family' for 16 years. Then all of a sudden, he passes, and I'm to blame. The outcast. It's so fucked up. Beyond fucked up
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) December 12, 2015
Wanna know what his family is like? His brother begged for money to buy 8-balls. And I don't even know what that is…fuck them all.
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) December 12, 2015
I've never used a recreational drug https://t.co/eFVRYk6J18
— Tamara Sytch (@WWEHOFerSunny) December 12, 2015
In addition to her Tweets, Sytch also took to her Facebook to air out her frustrations with being excluded from the documentary:
a message to all of Chris Candido’s family and friends: Go watch the trailer, that his drug addict of a brother made.. it is all bullshit. They NEVER supported him, in anything he did, unless they could gloat about his WWF status… and get free tickets…. I WAS THERE! I lived it with him for 16 years. I was there for the good and bad, and horrible… He died doing what he loved to do. And for 10 years now, I get blamed for not getting him to the hospital soon enough, while the doc reassured me there was nothing I could do. Shame on me. Fuck you all who think otherwise… those who know me, and him, know the REAL story.. so go support a false documentary about his life….and make the family that didn’t give a shit about him, money…..sad bastards, the are. If you remember correctly, I have NEVER tried to profit off of his death, while many others have… MANY! So many “memorial shows”..where did that money go?? not to me!! not to pay his outstanding bills??!! Nowhere, but to the ‘promoter’s pocket’ I wasnt even given an option on his burial… i was told he was being cremated, and had no say b/c we weren’t legally married,,, yeah, that was my “family”.. fuck them all…. Tamara Lynn Sytch
After overcoming his addictions and signing with TNA, Candido passed away in 2005 when a freak in-ring injury lead to a blood clot in his leg.
