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The World According To Dutch: Honey I Never Cheated On You Pt. 3

Posted: Dec 29th 2010 By: CMBurnham

Oh God...Ricky thought...don't start talking about that. Please, Ricky thought?don't talk about the women.


Ricky told me that as he watched the screen, time stood still as he not only watched in disbelief but in heard it as well as Tully was making a statement about the evilness of the wrestling profession.

Tully was not speaking in a raised voice as if he were already giving a sermon that he could not count the times that there had been DRUGS, LIQUOR AND

OH MY GOD RICKY THOUGHT...DON'T SAY IT YOU STUPID BASTARD...

But Ricky said he must have thought it too late as the words....

"WILD NAKED WOMEN RUNNING AROUND IN HIS ROOM and not only that...RUNNING BACK AND FORTH ALL OVER THE MOTELS BETWEEN HIS ROOM AND RICKY MORTON'S ROOM...doing drugs, drinking and having sex with those loose immoral women all night long. Tully then added, as to make it OK, it was ALL THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.

OH GOD!!! WTF, Ricky thought!!!

Ricky told me when he heard that, time stopped. He told me and these are Ricky's words, "I fell flat out off the sofa and just stared at the TV like I had been shot. I looked at Connie and she looked at me and her eyes told me everything I needed to know and I knew right then, it was over."

Ricky said that in less than 30 seconds, his life went from being great to being an absolute horror.

I've heard a ton of stories about wrestlers getting busted with other women in different ways...such as a wife driving 300 miles to another city without her husband knowing and getting the key to her husband's motel room where she actually opened the door and caught her husband in the act, but I've never heard a wrestler or anybody for that matter get busted on LIVE TV. And on a religious show. That was a first. Even Jimmy Swaggart didn't get busted on LIVE TV.

Ricky said that he tried to tell Connie that Tully was lying but Connie would have none of it. She said that Tully had turned his life around and was a man of God now...and he had to reason to lie. Ricky told me that his marriage was over right at that point.

As for me, this story stunned me. I have know Ricky Morton for well over 25 years...and I've never heard this tale either from any of the other wrestlers or from Ricky himself. Usually, news like this would travel quickly around the wrestling circles but not this one for some reason.

There was only one thing I wanted to know from Ricky. Was there any truth to what Tully had said on the 700 Club show or did he just get caught up in the story and inadvertenly drop Ricky's name in the mix?

Ricky just looked at me and just rolled his eyes and said, ?Brother please...what do you think?"


I asked Ricky did he ever confront Tully on why his name was even brought up on the 700 Club testimonial, and Ricky said that he didn't see Tully again until five years later. In retrospect, according to Ricky, that was probably a good thing because Ricky claimed that he had visions of killing Tully if he had run across him for ruining his life. Ricky did say that when he did talk to Tully years later, Tully apologized to him but it was five years too late.


Needless to say, Ricky and Connie ended up getting a divorce. Connie took the three kids and went back to Nashville where she was raised and where her family was. Ricky has continued his ways and now is remarried with more kids than he had with Connie and Tully is still preaching I suppose and saving lost souls.

But Ricky said that his marriage had been rocky for some time and if this hadn't happened when it did, it would have most likely been something else. As Ricky put it, when you take the ?L? out of ?LOVER?....it?s ?OVER.? According to Ricky, thanks to Tully Blanchard, that ?L? got erased in one interview.

Sometimes I wonder why people do the things they do. Why Tully Blanchard would say something like that amazes me. Even if I was the biggest druggie, drunk, dope addict, liar, cheat, thief in the world, I would never admit it publicly nor would I name anybody else. That's a private matter. I'm always amazed why a man like Tully Blanchard couldn't have told the story about his inequities and sinful ways and his discovery with God...without involving others. I've written two books and I have yet to say or write one thing that I would not say to a man's face or had permission to say.

I've often had doubts about wrestlers turning to religion but I'll save that one for the next book. It?s an interesting theory but one that has a great deal of credibility to it, but that's another story for another day.