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Jerry Lawler's Latest Column: Getting Back with Stacy, More

The following is from the official website of Jerry Lawler, KingLawler.com:

I am sitting in the Los Angeles airport waiting to board my flight home to Memphis. We did RAW at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California and a friend drove me here and dropped me off to wait nearly three hours on my flight. Actually, I killed an hour and a half eating some Mighty Wings at McDonalds in the International terminal, so now I only have a little over an hour until I board my plane. (I really only sat and ate for around an hour, but the walk to and from the International terminal took over 30 minutes.) Ahhh, the perils of the road. My flight to Memphis leaves L.A. at 1:40am and arrives in Memphis at 7:35am. Even if you could fall asleep the minute the plane took off you would still get less than four hours sleep, hence the name "redeye flight." I can assure you my eyes will be red and blurry when I arrive home.

When I get to my house I can't go back to bed because I have to do some artwork on a Gibson guitar that is going to be auctioned off at the Annual "Memphis Blues Ball" this coming Saturday. The deadline for having the guitar finished was last week, but being the ultimate procrastinator that I am, I will finish mine tomorrow. The Blues Ball is this huge party put on every year by Priscilla Presley and Pat Kerr Tigrett. It's a swanky black tie affair that raises a lot of money for the Memphis Music Association and the Gibson guitar company donates several brand new, unfinished, electric guitars that are then painted or decorated by artists and auctioned off at the party. For the past five years they have asked me to paint something on one of the guitars, and my guitars have sold for as high as six thousand dollars! Anyway, that's what I'll be doing later on this morning instead of sleeping.

I know I need to apologize for the fact that I haven't updated my website in several months. Many of you have e-mailed me and asked what was up and I want you all to know I appreciate the interest. What was up, most of the time, was my book....my autobiography that will be coming out around the middle of December. I think the actual target date for the book to be in stores is December 17th. I finally finished it a couple of weeks ago, thank God, because I was beginning to think it was going to be the "never ending story." I also want to thank those of you who took the time to respond to the question my webmaster posted a while back about what you would like to read about in my autobiography and what you liked or didn't like in other wrestler's books. Your feedback was very, very helpful. Hopefully most people will enjoy the book. It's entitled, "It's Good To Be The King...Sometimes!" And as you can tell from the title it covers the many "ups," and most of the "downs" of not just my career, but my entire life.

For several weeks I was spending nearly every waking minute working in some capacity on that book, so that is what I am going to use for my excuse as to why there has not been a recent update. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it! But now I am doing an update! Here it is! And I would really like your feedback on this update as well. I'd like to know from you what you'd like to hear from me. It goes without saying that people want to hear from an insider's point of view what is going on in the WWE. That's what I've always tried to do. I usually try to keep you abreast of what is going on in my personal life as well. Now that I think about it...I don't guess there's anything else I can write about because that is all I know. So maybe I don't need your feedback after all. Just kidding about that...I always enjoy hearing from any and all of you out there. And I promise I do read each and every e-mail I get, Personally! I regret I don't always have time to respond to all of them but I do try to write back as often as I can. So feel free to e-mail me at [e-mail] with any comments or questions you may have. But please don't bother asking stuff like, "King, will you please send me Stacy Keibler's e-mail address," or "King, will you tell Triple H that I said he sucks!" Because I really don't have time for that kind of stuff, plus I don't want to get into anyone else's business, if you know what I mean.

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here's some more:

Well, I guess I can go back and try to get you caught up on what's been going on with the King for the past few months. Besides writing the book I've been pretty busy on the road wrestling and doing appearances and such. I guess I will start back around the month of July. July was a pretty rough month for me for a couple of reasons. I still can't believe it's been a year ago, July 13th, that my wife Stacy left me. One year and two months she's been gone, and sadly, I still miss her as much today as I did the day she left. I know that sounds hard to believe, but I have had a really tough time trying to get over Stacy. I still remember a lot of the e-mails I got from people last year saying things like, "You'll get over her in time...." or "It will hurt less and less as time goes by....or "One day you'll find someone new and you'll forget about Stacy." Well, to me, a year is a pretty long time, and I was hoping that by now it would hurt less, and that I would be over her, but that's just not the case. Stacy is still in Florida. We talk on the phone from time to time and I have even gone down there to seen her a few times, but nothing good has come of it. We are not officially divorced yet either. That is still in the works. I guess I haven't been rushing the divorce proceedings because I was hoping for some sort of reconciliation but it is one of those situations where she says she wants us to be "friends," but that is all she can offer me.

If you visit my website very much you probably have seen a photo or two of a young lady named Joni. She's the one that my webmaster dubbed, "The King's hot new babe!" Well, actually Joni has been a Godsend to me. She came along when I was really at my lowest and provided me with some much needed companionship and understanding. It seemed that she had been through similar circumstances a few times in her life and she knew exactly what I was going through. I met Joni last November, on Thanksgiving to be exact, and since that time, we have spent a lot of time together. She has worked with me as my valet on many independent wrestling shows, and it kept me from having to make so many of those trips alone. She has been with me at times when, had I been alone, I would have been the most miserable person on earth. Times like last Christmas. Christmas was always such a special time of year for Stacy and I, and I don't know if I could have made it through it alone. Thank God Joni was there for me at Christmas. She's been a great friend...she's tried to help me through this whole Stacy situation with patience and understanding. She knows I am not over Stacy and she doesn't put any pressure on me or try to rush things. She just says, like everyone else, "It's going to take time."

Speaking of time, let me get back to telling you what's been going on the last few months. Back In July I wrestled on several independent shows. Two in Massachusetts, one in North Addlesboro, one in Hyanisport, and one in Pittsburgh. I also wrestled on a couple of house shows for the WWE. Bob Holly and I teamed up to go against Christian and Lance Storm, the Un-Americans, in tag team title matches in Jonesboro, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Those matches were really a lot of fun and the crowd reaction was terrific, especially since Jonesboro was one of my regular wrestling stops for many, many years. Speaking of regular wrestling stops, I also worked on a show at the Mid South Coliseum in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. Some 20 year old kid named Matt Holder called me up sometime in June and said he was planning to have a big wrestling extravaganza at the coliseum in Memphis and wanted to know how much it would take to get me to headline the card for him. I tried my best to talk him out of running because I felt it was going to be next to impossible for him to just walk into town with a limited budget and put on a successful wrestling show. But he insisted...and he paid in advance! So on July 26th, I wrestled Billy Travis, (my opponent was supposed to be Terry Funk, but the kid had run out of money and couldn't afford Terry's payoff or plane ticket to get him to Memphis from Amarillo, Texas) in front of about 500 people in the 11 thousand seat Coliseum. It was kind of embarrassing for me, but it must have really been embarrassing for Matt Holder. He had to lose his shirt that night.

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And finally here's the rest:

I played softball every Wednesday night in July and my team made it to the championship game in the city tournament, but we lost a slugfest by one run, 26 to 25. In August I wrestled against Terry Funk right outside of Clearwater, Florida and then threw out the first pitch and signed autographs at a Clearwater Phillies minor league baseball game. I wrestled for Bert Prentice at the annual Western Kentucky State Fair in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. I Wrestled on a show in Windsor Ontarion, Canada with Terry Taylor. I Wrestled at the Houston horse racing track, after the races, and I was the special referee for the WWE in matches featuring the WWE Divas, Victoria, Molly Holly, and Trish Stratus. Now that I've gotten back to Memphis, I'm going to go ahead and post this much of the update and I will continue to update the site about every other day...talk to you later!