Actor slits throat in suicide scene.

By David Shoo

An actor slit his throat on stage when a prop knife turned out to be a real one. The gory experience took place on Tuesday night.

 The actor Daniel Hoevels, 30, was supposed to be portraying a suicide scene in act five of the play `Mary Stuart” by Friedrich Schiller.

Austrian media reported that the actor slumped over with blood gorging from his neck while the audience, who assumed it was all special effects, broke into applause.

Bravery with a bandage

The actor was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment. A doctor told media reporters:

“If Hovels had hit an artery or cut only slightly deeper, he would have died on stage,”

Although many would be traumatized by the alleged murder plot, Hoevels impressed fans by appearing on stage the next night, wearing a bandage around his neck.

Police are investigating whether the knife was a mistake or a murder plot. They are questioning both the cast and any backstage crew who had access to props.

 

Chris Benoit: Entertainer, Family man, Murderer.

He was meant to appear at the Extreme World Championships “Vengance: Night of Champions.” Instead on 25 June 2007, the Professional wrestler took his own life after brutally murdering his wife and seven-year-old-child.

The tragedy called for investigations into the “Roid rage” many wrestlers experience from taking steroids.

Many of Benoit’s co-wrestlers described him as quiet man; a distant character. In an interview with MSNBC, retired Sports entertainer, Bret Hart said:
“I never saw a violent side to him. There was some different explanation for what happened.”

WRESTLING CAREER
During his childhood and early adolescence in Edmonton, Chris Benoit idolized the

 

Dynamite Kid (Tom Billington). Though not a wrestling fan, his father Michael Benoit encouraged his son by buying him a set of weights for strength and training.

Chris Benoit began his professional career in 1985 in the Canadian based Stu Hart’s stampede Wrestling promotion. Benoit adopted many of Billington’s moves such as the “Diving Headbutt” and the “Snap Suplex.” He eventually paid homage by calling one of his signature moves, “The Dynamite.”

PERSONAL LIFE

Benoit married twice, having two children with his first wife, Martina. The relationship was torn two pieces and Benoit remarried in 1997.

In 2003, his spouse Nancy Sullivan filed for divorce alleging cruel treatment from her husband. She claimed that he would break and throw furniture around. She later dropped the suit, as well as the restraining order filed against her husband.

WWE canceled a scheduled three-hour-long show and replaced the broadcast version with a tribute to his life and career. However the WWE distanced themselves from the wrestlers once he details of the tragedy were uncovered.

The wrestler’s autopsy revealed that he had an elevated level of testosterone, as well as three different steroids (Xanax, Hydro codone and Hydropmorphene) in his system.

The concussions he experienced throughout his career, were used as explanations for his sick actions.