Kevin Nash has spent years calling Scott Hall his best friend. Scott’s ex-wife Dana Hall has heard enough of it, and now she’s publicly telling Nash to stop.
Dana went after Nash during an appearance on Monte & The Pharaoh, claiming there are several reasons she doesn’t believe he was as good a friend to Scott as he portrays himself to be. Her issues range from how Nash and others allegedly enabled Scott’s addictions to personal “boundaries” Dana claims Nash crossed himself.
The two were apparently still on friendly terms until March 2026. That changed when someone sent Dana a clip from Nash’s podcast containing what she described as an untrue and disrespectful “ex-wife joke.”
“Since March of this year, when I last tried to contact him via text about… somebody had brought to attention one of his podcast things where he was saying something that was just like an ex-wife joke, you know, poking fun. Just, you know, just wasn’t cool at all because I thought we were friends, and it just upset me. And he was saying some things that just were not true. So that really upset me.”
“So I texted him and I said, ‘Hey, you know, I saw this. Why’d you say it?’ And he said, ‘I didn’t say it.’ And I sent him the clip, and then he started to backpedal. Then he started to gaslight. Then he started to get upset.”
That argument opened the door to something Dana had apparently wanted to say for a while. She confronted Nash over the way he talks about Scott and told him she doesn’t believe the friendship was what he makes it out to be.
“And then I kind of, like, said, you know, like, ‘I really take offense to you just always crying and claiming you’re his good friend when I know, when I don’t really think you were a good friend to him.’”
“And then he got really ugly, and I mean, we went back and forth a little bit, and I kind of reminded him that, you know, he’s not really been there for the kids or anything like that or just, you know, just not telling the truth.”
According to Dana, Nash eventually ended their exchange with, “What f****** ever? I don’t have any drama in my life. Have a good life.” Dana says she had already warned him that she intended to tell her side eventually.
“And that’s how he left it. And I told him before that that I was going to clear things up one day, you know, like, just basically, just stop, you know, stop saying you were as good a friend when you know you really and truly weren’t as good a friend as you claim to be.”
When Dana was asked why she feels that way, she said there were “three or four reasons.” One of the biggest goes back to Scott’s struggles with addiction and what was happening around him on the road.
“There’s several reasons. There’s like maybe three or four reasons why I don’t consider him as good of a friend as he claims to be.”
“I mean, one would be all of them knew that Scott struggled with addiction, but they all partied with him. They all drank with him. They all drugged with him for years and years and years.”
Dana wasn’t claiming Nash and Scott’s other wrestling friends didn’t care about him. Her issue is that she believes they knew Scott was hurting himself and still participated alongside him.
“And yeah, they… I’m not saying that they didn’t care about him and they didn’t love him and they didn’t spend time with him, but I mean, when you really look at what a real friend is, it isn’t somebody that helps you hurt, you know, that knows you’re hurting yourself and they’re doing it with you.”
“That’s not… that’s an enabler. That’s not a real friend. So, I mean, they all kind of want to act like that didn’t happen, especially Kevin, you know.”
Dana also stopped short of blaming Nash or anybody else for Scott’s addiction or death. She acknowledged that Scott continued those behaviors without them and believes he probably would have found other people to party with anyway.
“I mean, Scott did it when he wasn’t with them. So, I mean, but it didn’t help. That’s for sure. They enabled him. It was one big party on the road, you know. So, yeah, it didn’t help.”
“I’m pretty sure if it wasn’t them, he would have found other friends that had done it. And he did a really good job of messing up when he wasn’t with them, you know.”
Then Dana got into something far more personal. She said she and Nash had been friends themselves, but claims their relationship crossed “boundaries and lines” that someone claiming to be Scott’s close friend shouldn’t have crossed. Dana didn’t spell out what happened, but she directly accused Nash of disloyalty and betrayal toward Scott.
“I mean, and then we were friends. We were friends and we… Oh my God. Yeah, there was boundaries and lines crossed that a friend shouldn’t cross. So that’s another reason why I think Kevin shouldn’t be claiming that he’s this good friend of Scott because there was disloyalty on Kevin’s part and betrayal on Kevin’s part, along with the fact that he’s been a shitty friend in death. So that’s why, yeah, we’re not… I don’t consider him a friend of mine anymore. I don’t think Cody has considered him a friend for a long, long time.”
The interviewer deliberately avoided asking Dana for the exact details, but he did ask whether “boundaries” meant things had gone beyond friendship between herself and Nash, she said, “A little bit.” He then clarified that she was saying Nash ventured into an area someone shouldn’t if the other man is supposed to be his brother and close friend. Dana didn’t back away from it.
“Yeah, that’s what I’m saying.”
That alleged history is what makes Nash repeatedly calling Scott his best friend so frustrating for Dana. She believes Nash knows what happened and knows she can challenge the story he tells publicly.
“So, if you know in your mind that you did that, unless you, like I said, have no conscience or selective memory, I just don’t think you should be broadcasting it to the world about what a good friend you were when you know that there is a person that can call you out on that, and that person has reminded you that they could call you out on that, and you still keep doing it and you don’t care.”
“Like, you just don’t care. So yeah, I take offense to him calling Scott his best, best friend, you know, because it just wasn’t. His definition of a friend and my definition of friend are very different, apparently. So yeah, I just want him to stop.”
That lands especially hard after Nash recently told Inside The Ropes that Hall remains the loss he will never truly get over, following Hall’s passing in 2022.
“I mean, I’ll never get over Scott because he was, you know, he was my best friend.”
Nash sees Scott Hall as the best friend he lost. Dana remembers the friendship much differently, and after warning Nash in March that she would eventually “clear things up,” she has now put some of those reasons out there for everyone to hear.
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