Natalya recalled that he worked on the speech for months. When he read it to her to practice his speech, she timed it and the speech was 46 minutes long. She was worried they’d get kicked off stage, but he was adamant that he read it in its entirety. Hart went into the speech planning to read all of it, even if it meant getting pulled off stage.

About four minutes into the speech is when the man attacked Hart. She held on to her uncle and “I ended up taking an armdrag over Bret. We got knocked down to the ground. All these wrestlers come swarming the ring.” They were all trying to protect Hart while they were on the ground. Hart had to go to the hospital after. She told him she knew what happened sucked, but “that was in the most Jim Neidhart fashion ever. Chaos, craziness, mayhem. I feel like my dad was having a little laugh from heaven because ‘f*** it, we’re gonna go out big.”

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