Sherilyn Guerrero is opening up about the painful relationship she had with wrestling after losing her father, Eddie Guerrero, and how the business eventually became part of her healing process years later.
During an appearance on The Smooth Vega Podcast, Sherilyn admitted that pro wrestling became something she couldn’t even look at after Eddie Guerrero passed away in 2005. What was once the biggest bond between father and daughter suddenly became a painful reminder of everything she lost.
While explaining how hard it became to reconnect with wrestling after Eddie’s death, Sherilyn said the passion she once had for the business completely disappeared.
“Oh, it’s heavy. Um, you know, I I feel like when he died, wrestling died with me. Like the yearn to watch it, the yearn to be a wrestler cuz I want to be a wrestler so bad uh when I was younger and I feel like when he passed away cuz it was so unexpected and and soon um definitely it died with me like I had a long time before I was ready to even be okay with accepting it back into my life.”
Sherilyn explained that for years she tried living a normal life outside the wrestling business, but wrestling somehow kept finding its way back to her no matter how far she tried to distance herself from it.
“I feel like God always brought wrestling back to me in some way, form, or shape, whether I try to do the normal life or be behind the camera. So, there’s no resentment, but I also feel like I had to even heal to love wrestling again.”
She then reflected on how wrestling eventually became a way to reconnect with her father emotionally after going through additional trauma in her personal life.
“And then I went through a lot worse where I honed back into loving it and trying to get close with him again cuz unfortunately he was always on the road. And when my dad was home, it was still wrestling that me and him bonded over.”
According to Sherilyn, her perspective on wrestling today is completely different than it was during the years immediately following Eddie’s death. What once scared her eventually became something therapeutic.
“So it’s it’s a good healing now. Before it was a I hate it, get it away from me cuz I’m scared of it. Um, but now I I have a I think I have my own addiction to it.”
Sherilyn also spoke about how much she now loves training and finally embracing the dream she once had as a child before Eddie Guerrero passed away.
“Yeah, I’ll tell you that. Like it’s it’s addicting being in that ring and training and um finding myself, especially finding the younger me that that wanted it so bad.”
Sherilyn is currently training at Reality of Wrestling under Booker T as she works toward her eventual in-ring debut. She previously explained during the same interview that after enduring years of trauma and mental health struggles, wrestling helped her mentally rebuild herself and finally feel ready to step into the business on her own terms.
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