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"I was compelled to tell his story because I felt I was his voice and it's a tribute to Owen," Martha
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responsibility for the tragedy -- a battle ending with a multi-million-dollar settlement for Marthaand her founding of the Owen Hart Foundation.
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co-written by Martha Hart and Calgary Sun columnist Eric Francis, tells the story of high school
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Martha relives the horrible end to theirfairy tale marriage and uncovers the gross negligence that led to the tragedy and the legalbattle that followed.Martha's proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the KidsHelp Phone on behalf of the Owen Hart Foundation she set up in his memory.In an exclusiveexcerpt from the book, Martha recounts one of the most notorious events in wrestling lore.
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co-written by Martha Hart and Calgary Sun columnist Eric Francis, tells the story of high school
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Martha relives thehorrible end to their fairytale marriage and her fight for the truth behind the tragedy and justice
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Martha's proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Kids Help Phoneon behalf of the Owen Hart Foundation she set up in his memory.In Part 2 of exclusiveexcerpts from the book, Martha tells how she learned of Owen's tragic fall.
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This week first-time author Martha Hart launched her book, Broken Harts: The Life and
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For Martha Hart, the phone call came on May 23, 1999, telling her that her
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Martha writes about that black night and a whole lot more in Broken Harts: The Life and Death
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They are dark and bleak and Martha writes them honestly, pouring out heremotions and holding nothing back.It must have been tremendously difficult for Martha torevisit that blackness for the purposes of writing the book, but she is to be commended for it.
Martha handles the dissension with members of the Hart family over the lawsuit with tact,limiting her explanation of the differences to the actions and words of those involved, without
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in her book, Under the Mat, which Martha served libel notice on and managed to get pulledfrom the shelves.)
After chronicling her long, drawn-out court battle with the WWF, in which she received anundisclosed settlement from the company out of court (reported at $18 million US, a figure thatMartha says in the book she can't comment on due to a non-disclosure clause) she finishesthe book by discussing her continuing grief, how her kids are coping and tries desperately tofind a bright spot in it all through the good work being done by the Owen Hart Foundation thatshe started with seed money from her settlement.
As almost seems to be traditional in wrestling-related books there are a couple of minorwrestling-related factual errors in Broken Harts.And there's at least one passage (whereMartha talks about Owen accidentally injuring Steve Austin in the ring with a botched
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growled Martha, wife of WWF star Owen Hart.
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By May 23, 1999, the lines between fantasy and reality had blurred to the point that Martha
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Attractive, carefully groomed and well-spoken, Martha, 36, a longtime post-office employee who
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In the end, Martha received a settlement reported at $18 million US, although she's not allowedto disclose the amount.Two million of that was dedicated to the Owen Hart Foundation,administered by the top-drawer Calgary Foundation.Already, it's helping single mothers withnew homes, another chance.Waiting for her ride outside the hotel, Martha wonders aloud ifshe will ever be happy again.
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by Martha Hart with Eric Francis
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After her husband's death, Martha Hart launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the
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Worse, it was revealed that the latch used to hold Hart was intended to beused on sailboats, not to hold up a mammoth wrestler hundreds of feet in the air.
Broken Harts comes as a surprise.I was expecting something similar to Under the Mat byDiana Hart, a wretched and libellous book that was taken off bookshelves after Martha Hart
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It's as if Martha deliberately took the highest possible road to act as a rebuttal toher sister-in-law's wallow in the gutter.Using some of the $18 million she got in the settlement,she established the Owen Hart Foundation to help down-and-out Calgarians.
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We had been chatting effortlessly for half an hour when Martha Hart went quiet for a fewseconds, lost in her thoughts.
I'd asked her what she would say to parents who are planning to take their kids to see theWorld Wrestling Entertainment card at Copps Coliseum in December.
After a few seconds of silence, she took a deep breath.Then -- in the parlance of that industry
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widow, Martha Hart.
Very little to complain about here.There's a few very minor factual errors (IE Andre the Giantpassing away in the 80's shortly after Wrestlemania III).Martha Hart comes off at times as bitter
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Now she's employed and the proud owner of a home where she can raise her son and daughter. ...'It goes back to mine and Owen's very practical approach to life and rewarding people for hard work [Martha Hart]'."
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"'If you're working hard and you never get ahead it's discouraging- this is an inscentive program which rewards hard work'- Martha Hart"
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"Martha Hart has just begun to see the fruits of her effort to use settlement money from the death of her
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