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I say, we are the script. People came because they were dazzled by the illusions. But the real stars of this act were the animals. Particularly the tigers. These majestic, potentially lethal animals were feet away from audience members with nothing in between them. Theres a chance for an incident. And on the night of october 3rd of 03, there was an incident. The one thing that is clear, that night changed Siegfried Roy forever. We need paramedics. This huge tiger opensis mouth and grabs roy by the neck. Roy is screaming, ah, ah grabbed him by the throat, just walked offstage. He has roy completely at his mercy. I thought we had heard the whole story, after this. Siegfried reacts to a stunning new version of events. It sounds a little strange. I never felt love in my life. Only on stage, the applause, the acceptance. Youve been in each others lives for 50 years. 55 years. What is your relationship with roy . What does he mean to you . All this years we are together, what we achieved, i said, i thank you very much, and i think i said, i love you. So, and he says, if i would have to do it again, i would do everything again the same way. I regret nothing. Siegfried roy are the ultimate showmen. They set vegas on fire. Siegfried roy had been the single most successful entertainment attraction in las vegas history by orders of magnitude. 30 years, 48 weeks a year, capacity business. Siegfried is a magician that comes along once in a generation. Always designing and creating new illusions, magical feats that had never been tried before. When i see the wonderment in the eyes of the audience, and then the performer and audience became one. Its very gratifying. Roy is the big animal lover. Thats what brings him to life. Roy was always fearless. He had no fear of living, no fear of loving, and no fear of giving. The scary element is the fundamental to it. Siegfried and roy with penguins would not work, right . You need the fear thats inherent in the lives of tigers being on stage. Roy was always bigger than life. True magic begins thats reverenced for the circle of creation. Siegfried is the one who has to say, how is this going to work . Siegfried often says that he by himself would be not enough, and roy by himself would be too much. But, to me, its like thunder and lightning. The Siegfried Roy story is the American Dream story. Its pretty inspiring to think that you can come literally from nothing. To become the most successful live entertainers in the history of las vegas. Their home was a lavish, overthetop, luxurious compound in which you saw tigers and lions roaming freely. It started as one house on an ordinary road in las vegas, and grew until they owned every house on the block and turned it into the jungle palace. Acres of land for the animals to roam in and play in. And all the animals were in the Swimming Pool, just swimming happily along. There were waterfalls and gold fixtures. It was a little bit flashy and a little bit over the top but, you know, these are master showmen and their home should reflect their persona. They had come a long way. These are two men who as little boys grew up in postworld war ii germany. Our fathers went into the war as one person and they came back as a different. So they found their outlet in alcohol. We never had attention. I never remembered. My father even talked to me. I just was there. When siegfried figured out how to do his first magic trick which was to make a coin disappear, his father for the first time looked up and acknowledged him. He said to me, how did you do that . And that was i think the three words that changed my life. My life became magic, and magic became my life. Like entertainers and actors, a magician is often born from insecurities, lack of attention, and the need to be loved. Each one found a different outlet to escape. As his source of love, roy turned to animals. He really developed his first real love affair with an animal at the bremen zoo with a cheetah named chico. He would imitate his purring sounds, and gradually over time, they were on a wavelength, and a bond. It was when we began to delve into our childhoods that we understood there was a powerful link between our reality and our magic. For our reality, even at its darkest, turns out to be the source of our magic. The two came up with this autobiographical film about their lives, and their beginnings. And according to siegfried, things changed for him when he found this money on the street and was able to buy his very first magic book. The magic world he yearned to master would open itself to him. Theyre parables. What they did with their origin story creates this larger than life thing that happened to them that was the impetus for everything that would happen later. So these two boys would finally meet in 1959. They were both working onboard the bremen, which was a luxury liner that would cross the atlantic from germany to the united states. I became a first class steward, and the captain found out that there is a steward who does some magic. So one day roy comes here and he helped me. And . And afterwards, i wanted to find out how he liked it. The great siegfried. What a great performance i gave, and he was not very impressed. I asked him, well, if you can make a rabbit disappear, how about making a cheetah disappear . I said, in magic anything is possible. He calls me over into his cabin, open up the door, and there was thcheetah. On the boat . On the boat. He had snuck chico onboard and was hiding him in his cabin. We put him into the act. We had a standing ovation. Your act was born. And i thought in show business you dont have to be only good you have to be different, and roy brought the difference. They left the ship and they began touring throughout europe. They were a hit. People began to fall in love with the cheetah, chico. They had something that nobody else had shown before. Siegfried roy make their way to monaco where they begin doing their act in a big way and in monaco, monte carlo its capital, is a big hotspot. Grace kelly has married prince rainier, and so its a hotspot for a lot of the International Stars of the time. They were asked to perform for the annual gala. This was the first time they had really performed in front of stars. Theres cary grant and theres sophia loren and theres frank sinatra. And the next day, the headline was, Siegfried Roy, the new kings of monte carlo. Siegfried roy started with a dream, our dreams became the reality, and the reality became our life. Their sights were on bigger things, and as roy once said, if you wanna be the pope, you go to rome, but if you want to be an entertainer, you gotta go to vegas. There we coming, young little immigrants coming with the back of dreams to america and believing, oh, this is the land of opportunities. The owners of the hotel looked at them and said, tell us that you sing. Tell us that you dance. Tell us that you juggle. But dont tell us that you do magic, because magic does not work in this town. People came because they were dazzled by the illusions, but the real stars of this act were the animals. Very exciting, but in the back of your mind you could have a bad night. I have moderate to severe pnow, theres skyrizi. Things are getting clearer, yeah i feel free to bare my skin yeah thats all me. Nothing and me go hand in hand nothing on my skin thats my new plan. Nothing is everything. Keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90 clearer skin at 4 months. Of those, nearly 9 out of 10 sustained it through 1 year. And skyrizi is 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. 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Siegfried and roy were two very good looking guys who were illusionists with animals. It didnt fit into the niche of las vegas. So they really had to work incredibly hard to make themselves special. Give me one sentence that describes your relationship with roy. Roy had these dreams and i had the ideas. His dreams were always so big but we made the dreams become a reality. They started out with one cheetah and they start adding animals to their show. That was their shtick. That was their thing. They developed something different. People love the wild animals and people love magic. The moment i step on stage, the pleasure is there. Its always a high. You watch films of magicians from back in the 30s and 40s, much slower acts. Siegfried and roy came along and decided were gonna go, bam, bam, bam. So i think everything to them was about, how do you create as much wonder as possible . And to create the largest spectacle that was the most compelling experience so that you as an audience member couldnt possibly look away. Their magic tricks and their illusions were centuries old, but they added such grandeur and majesty to them that they appeared new. Wowing audiences everywhere. These guys had energy personified. And they loved it. Lynette chappelle, a trained ballerina. Beautiful blonde. And they brought her into the act. Sometimes i disappeared and an animal appeared. I was sawed in half twice nightly, and sometimes three times a night. They had big, big dreams. They worked their way from resort to resort. Every show is a challenge. I always say after all these years, never had a perfect show. Siegfried roy were working constantly. They never once took a break. The stress was toxic. It was not easy. That was not an easy life. It wasnt all a bed of roses. Siegfried, at one point, the stress of putting on the show night after night without break, really started to wear on him. The obstacles are all that i see. Magic starts with a fantasy, but once i have an idea there are a million problems to solve before the illusion works. In ignoring these problems, roy presented me a challenge bigger than his cheetah. Him. Siegfried began to suffer from insomnia, and started taking some pills to help him calm down and go to sleep. He got hooked on valium. He was becoming kind of zombielike. He wasnt communicative. He said he began to hallucinate. I realized after a while i was hooked on it. The Substance Abuse problem put a rift to where they almost split. That was probably the most dangerous time of their career when something truly tragic could have happened. But with siegfried and roy theres no such thing as give up or do it halfway. Those terms never happened with Siegfried Roy. Its all out or nothing. The big breakout year, of course, for Siegfried Roy was 1989. Steve wynn decides hes going to build the mirage. He was going to basically create the new las vegas. He wanted it to be the greatest resort, the greatest casino, the greatest everything that had ever been. So he also had to have the greatest show. Siegfried roy came to me with the idea of a new show that was going to be scaled above and beyond anything that anyone had seen in las vegas. That room at the mirage was built for them, a place to keep elephants and tigers. You know, it was a zoo. The equipment it took to do the illusions, the staging devices and other paraphernalia, very, very elaborate, very tricky. Takes a lot of money, i will tell you that. It was probably the most expensive show ever in the history of the world at the time it was built. Over 30 million in 1990. That was big money to spend on a theater. But on top of it Siegfried Roy were making a big salary. They inked a deal for 57 million over five years. At the time it was the biggest contract anybody had ever signed in las vegas. We get the set designer, john napier, who did all the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals as starlight express, cats, and miss saigon. Hes the star of set design. When we finally got him and we talked about the show. What its supposed to be. And he say, how i can do a show when there is no script . I say, we are the script. I had to create a series of small and large vignettes that would embrace and enhance what they already did. So it was a sort of hybrid of Marvel Comics and wagner. When the mirage show opened, no one had seen a magic show of that sle. It was kind of a mashup of a magic show and a broadway show. It was taking what would be a finale for 12 other shows and putting them all together and blending it so beautifully with costumes, with lighting. Siegfried roy had many, many sequences in their show which were really innovative, particularly combining different illusions. I always liked their sequence where the girl would float up in the air and hed do the hoop, and then shed float into the box. Theyd saw her in half and put her back together and then cover her with the sheet. Shed float up under the sheet and then disappear. Three classic illusions combined into one routine. No one had ever done that before. And they made it blend together, and it was one of the highlights of their show. When roy would get cut in two pieces, they revolutionized it, and they did it in a way that was out in the open. An awful lot of people are sitting in the audience going, how the [ bleep ] are they doing that . Ladies and gentlemen, this is your places call, places, please. Initially siegfried and roy had topless dancers in their show like every other show in las vegas. But they really wanted families to be able to come to the show, so they started covering up their dancers. It gave a broader appeal to Siegfried Roy. It wasnt salacious or erotic, it was big and sensual, but you can take anybody to it. We knew what we didnt want at the mirage. No conventional backdrops for scenery. No nudity. In short, nothing that was traditional las vegas. Siegfried roy really started the whole Family Friendly trend that you see everywhere in las vegas now. On any given night, celebrities were flocking to their show. Sylvester stallone, barbra streisand, liza minnelli, president carter, reagan, bush. Siegfried roy dominated las vegas. They paved the way for these new shows, the celine dions and the lady gagas and everything else. They showed that you could charge a big buck for a show. Theyve come a long way from the cruise ship. Theyve come a long way from that smuggled cheetah. All my life, im together with them. Its an enormous responsibility. Its a devotion, its a physical risk. You had a chunk of your arm taken out by a lion. Coach saban we have Health Insurance. Did Health Insurance pay for everything . 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Kevin . try my new 4. 99 blt cheeseburger combo. What was the moment at which you first heard an animal thinking . Actually, all my life. I think it is something ive been born with. Such a good boy. Just the ability to talk to animals, to communicate with animals is magic. Its the most purest form of magic. The animals always came first in roys life. I remember the black jaguar that lived in roys bedroom. Come visit. Roy sleeps with the animals. There we go. Roy is there when they are born. The first voice they hear, its mine. The first face they see is mine. So most probably, they think i am a tiger. Im sort of their father figure. I guide them through their childhood. I let them know whats right and whats wrong, or the way theyre comfortable. Theyre looking for me as sort of a security blanket. In the morninenoyoes and takes a shower, they know he is coming any minute. How many animals are we talking about . We have, all together, 50. 50. And there are elephants, pythons, tigers, leopards, panthers. And today, we are fortunate enough that we have 32 white tigers, 5 snow white ones. But theyre the last ones. Theyre extinct today in the wild. Give me a nice smile. Give me a nice smile. Roy has always had an amazing bond with animals but in particular, he was fascinated by white tigers. He thought they were magical somehow. In 1982, they meet the maharaja of baroda, o is the commissioner of wildlife in india. He comes to see their show in las vegas and roy sees this as just almost divine. White tigers were re, kind of a fluke in nature. All the white tigers in captivity today are descended from one animal that was caught as cub named mohan. That began the white tiger line. And it turns out the maharajas family had actually had success in breeding white tigers. They had given two to the cincinnati zoo. There was nothing in me that wanted to sell an entertainer tigers. But i was pretty impressed at roys commitment, his dedication, and certainly the care he could provide. I mean, when he talked about bringing in white tigers, he talked about building an olympicsized Swimming Pool for the cats. Airconditioned quarters. So i took a gamble and i sold them a pair of tigers. Two of these tigers wind up mating. And satara, the female tiger, gives birth to three white cubs. And as you might imagine, roy is just over the moon. Those cute little tigers can trace their lineage back to mohan, who was bred with his daughter. Inbreeding that would later be controversial. Roy had this almost magical contact with them. He adored them. They seemed to adore him. He started to bring them on stage when they have three weeks old. And the animal, they feel comfortable. And secure when roy was there. Say hello. All of these animals are show business babies. Theyre trained not to be afraid of the stage, the lights, the sound, the people. Doesnt faze any of the animals. That takes a lot of training. Youre the guy that gives me all the treats. Youre the guy, when i want to play with that special toy, you bring that toy. If you are my guy all the time, ive learned that every time i do what you ask, i get this fun, amazing life. Part of the illusion of Siegfried Roy is that they were magically controlling these wild ferocious animals. But the reality is hello. There were trainers and handlers behind the scene all the time. Roy did have a small leash on the bigger cats. Typically speaking, every cat onstage would either have a handler or maybe even be secretly locked down somewhere. So whats common in the industry is they would have a little light wire that you wouldnt be able to see from stage, and they would just be anchored to the floor. Lets not forget these are still wild animals with an instinct to kill. In all the years that Siegfried Roy worked with these animals that are basically dangerous, there were never any major incidents. There were minor incidents. You had a chunk of your arm taken out by a lion. Yes, it was not a chunk, it was just a 33 stitches . It was a nip. Yes, we had at this time, an illusion roy changing into a lion. And i open up the cage and to make it look very ferocious, so i had a lot of wrestling with the lion. And then too far i just got too carried away. And not one of them has ever really turned on you. No, i guess im very fortunate to have a good family. Roy, he knows that people get attacked by their tigers all the time. But he thinks, im good enough. Im aware enough. Ive done enough. Im not gonna be that person today. Does he know his name . Yeah, his name is akbar kabul. Do you know how far you can push him . Yeah. So you would let him lick your face . Mhmm. You would pull his ears. You dont believe it, right . You dont believe it. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Come here. Yeah. Yeah. Thats a good boy. Yeah. Then he does that means he says hello. Everything is fine. 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In the early 2000s, Siegfried Roy, while under contract and still enjoying enormous success, decide they want to cut back, if you can even say that to just eight shows a week. And yet every night they had a very elaborate and specific routine. Siegfried comes to the theater, something close to 4 00 and roy soon after that. He prepares himself mentally for the show. I meditate with them before the show. We clean our thoughts. We are very simple together. You could hear the volume of their their breathing was like some meditative tantrics, sort of i mean, it was fantastic. On a normal night, the show ran like clockwork. Timing is everything from how you turn the animal and what it does. There was no room for error. Everything was timed meticulously, rehearsed and rehearsed. And it was like a finetuned car. They literally communicate on stage with a glance. The workload of the show was high and it took its toll on both performers, animals, theater staff. It was a hard show, a very hard show. The stamina of those two guys just floored me. Roy used to swing by one arm out over the audience. He would reappear instantaneously somewhere else. I mean, its not real magic. He actually has to physically get there. You have to be physically fit and you have to maintain that, and they both did that, religiously. As the show went on, you know, the body breaks down, too. Roy had several knee operations. Siegfried had some physical things, too. One of their vanities is that theyre not as tall as you think they are. Therefore, they wore twoinch high heeled shoes, and inside there had lifts. So it was like being a ballerina, i suspect. Roy horn was a slight guy. Roys size matters for a lot of different reasons. Because every time the tiger does something, and he jumps up on his shoulders, theres gonna be an instability. The tigers gonna realize that, if i ever wanted to physically dominate this guy, thered be no problem. Dealing with those cats, 650 pounds, a siberian tiger, tail to nose, standing on your shoulders, i mean, you have to have it together ir to do that. You cant phone it in. Its not like the circus when theres a cage. In Siegfried Roy there was no such barrier. These majestic, potentially lethal animals were feet away from audience members with nothing in between them. Its pretty incredible. It was an eerie scene to watch how close the cats were to the audience. You could see how sharp their teeth were. And you could see their girth. Ive heard of audience members veryg very nervous being up close like that. Over 30 years doing shows 48eeks a year, Siegfried Roy managed to put dozens of big cats and lions into a room with people without any bars or walls. None of us ever felt that the public was in danger, ever. Nor did we think that roy was, because of his knowledge. They are not gonna go after the audience . No. They wouldnt go after the audience, period. No. Im their security blanket. They know that i would never go with them anywhere where they wouldnt be safe. And they would only be concerned about their own safety and are you worried when the animals can sense from you that youve been rocky during the day. It would, if i would be rocky. Im the rock of gibraltar when it comes to my animals. So therefore theres no problem. When we have a bad day we let it out on each other. These are the animals. And the animals they say, oh there they go again. See, and you know what i tell them . Dont talk to me like this. I am the endangered species, you know. Breaking news. The tiger that attacked roy. Officials are reporting that horn was attacked by one of those tigers. In a vast desert completely wdevoid of basset hounds. [ back in babys arms by patsy cline ] then, it appeared a beacon of hope. Im back in babys arms more glorious than a billion sunsets. We were found. Im back where i belong found by the hounds. 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Celebration is the greatest thg any man can do at this age. Im 59, im celebrating and celebrating and celebrating. And that was the night before. Had i ever worried about an accident with Siegfried Roy . Yes, we had considered that grim possibility. When you perform the same thing 40,000plus times, there is a chance for an incident, and on the night of oct the 3rd of 03, there was an incident. That was a night that was justike any other. This was a show that you had done countless times. Thats right. And there had never, ever been a hiccup. Yes. Thats a story we always hear about big cat attacks. Oh, hed never done anything before. Well, cats dont get a lot of chances to attack their trainer. It usually only happens once. Its the 8 00 p. M. Show and everybody is expecting the usual dazzling performance. The crowd is filing in. Its about 1,500 people, and among them are Andrew Cushman and paul diantonio. We got into the show id say 15 minutes before it started, sat down. We were dead center right in front of the stage. We knew we had good seats. We didnt know we had the best seats in the place. Andrew and paul are seated at a table in row f, and thats about 20 feet from the stage. And remember as you can see from this photograph in the program, there is no barrier separating the animals from anyone. These animals are right on top of the audience. This is dangerous. You cant look away. Its impossible to look away, because there theres tigers that are, you know, 20 feet away from you on stage. And the audience loved it. They just loved it. I mean, cause they can touch them. Say hello. Most of the show theres actors and actresses everywhere. Theres animals everywhere. 45 minutes into the show, the lights go off, and theres just a spotlight on roy horn. He just walks out with just a tiger. And he introduced the tiger. This is mantecore. And tonight is his first appearance in front of an audience. And then said it was the tigers first time on stage in front of an audience, which we have since learned is part of the show, they say that every time. Its a little gimmicky thing to make the audience feel good, and that they were special to be at that show. Someone you like . When, you know, mantecores in the show every night. Its a little showbiz, a little white lie, we might call it. In any of these illusions, timing is everything. Roy kneels down, puts the microphone in front of his face so they can hear the animal growl. Then roy stands up. The tiger jumps up, puts his front paws on roys shoulders and gives roy a kiss. When roy introduced mantecore, he does things what he did 150,000 times. For some reason this time mantecore comes out, and he misses his mark on the stage. Now, theres a lot of disagreement as to what happened next and why, and there is tape of the incident, but the hotel has steadfastly refused to release it. The one thing that is clear is that that night changed Siegfried Roy forever. What happened was, the animal got confused. Mantecore got confused. Ive been in the situation where a tiger is confused as to whats hes being asked. And that night, that particular night, something was different in mantecores brain that then said, not tonight. And roy gave him a tap on the head, which is a secondary command to obey, and the animal reached up with its mouth, and took roys hand and pushed it away. The tiger reached around to the right and grabbed his right wrist. I saw that, and i immediately thought that didnt look too good. It kind of nipped at his hand and he smacked at it. Once the music abruptly stopped, it kind of got quiet, at that point i sensed something was wrong. Roy knew that this was completely offscript. This was way out of line. So roy knows what you always do is you distract the tiger. So he took the microphone with a soft rubber tip, and he hit him on the side of the head. Which you could hear because the microphone was on over the p. A. System. The sound was just so loud. Just, pow, pow, pow. At some point the tiger has to decide if he wants to listen to this person or not. At that point roy fell over the right front paw of mantecore, on his back. He fell on the stage. He fell on stage and then of course i thought, oh, my god. Roy is in trouble. Big trouble. Because while nothing has ever happened before, mantecore is a 400pound tiger, and he has roy completely at his mercy. But allstate actually helps you drive safely. With drivewise. It lets you know when you go too fast. And brake too hard. With feedback to help you drive safer. Giving you the power to actually lower your cost. Unfortunately, it cant do anything about that. Now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . You have power over pain, so the whole world looks different. The unbeatable strength of advil. What pain . Schools are having acrto cut sports. 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Nothing stands out in my mind that could say, well, maybe that would set the tiger off. Maybe, you know, that kid yelling or that person standing up and waving. I mean, i dont remember anything to that effect at all. Its like the jfk assassination. Everybodys gonna have a theory. What happened . At a sudden i felt very, very dizzy and very blurry. And i couldnt really step my feet further so i tripped and fell. You tripped and fell because you were dizzy . Yeah. Whatever the reason, roy is now in a horrifying position. He is laying on the stage floor underneath mantecore. And the animal is not responding to him. The next thing we knew, the tiger was on top of roy. Ive been under a tiger many times. That tiger is certainly in a situation that hes never been in before. And their brain its all instinctual. Thats when the fear kicks in. Your life is in danger. The illusion was everything. And so even as things went awry, you might not know that something horrible was happening. They thought it was the act. Some of them they thought it was the act. They knew there is something wrong. But they didnt know exactly what was going on. Behind the curtain i heard some people even was laughing. There was a headset by me. And all i heard was hes got roy. I remember mantecore was standing over me and looking at me, and with his beautiful blue eyes. He was a little bit confused for what shall be next . He just looked around helpless and at the moment i was thinking what, what i can do, and i think that was the same thing with mantecore. I ran straight downstage. It took me maybe three seconds to get there. All four handlers were out on the stage trying to get mantecore in line. None of the people who ran out on stage were able to help, and in that moment the situation goes from bad to unbelievably worse. This huge tiger opens his mouth and grabs roy by the neck. It was devastating. Roy is screaming, ah, ah the screams, the noise, everything. Mantecore decided he was going to decide what was going to happen for himself that day and anyone who challenges that is going to suffer the consequences. There was really nothing he could do at that point. The only way he was going to get out was for that tiger to let go. It wasnt like he grabbed him viciously, he just grabbed him by the throat and just walked offstage. I thought it was part of the show, i really did. When mantecore picked you up, did you feel pain when that was happening . No. You felt nothing . No. He was very gentle. So you had no idea that you were bleeding as badly as you were backstage . No. Was it pandemonium backstage . Totally. Were people panicking . Absolutely. Mantecore was carrying roy, heading toward his cage. I grabbed him by the tail, which caused mantecore to stop. Hes, like, halfway in his cage now and he still had ahold of roy. And that gave the guys backstage a moment to grab a fire extinguisher, and go that made mantecore drop roy. And roy was bleeding out on the floor. Behavior of dragging off is, in my opinion, a tiger whos become protective of something that they want. This tiger does not see roy horn as a prey item. Nor does he see him as a source of food. He says, roy horn is now mine. I am dominant of him. I am going to defend it. We need paramedics at the Siegfried Roy theater. Roy horn has been bitten by a tiger. The cast saved him. And the quick thinking of the handlers who put their fingers in the two puncture wounds to stem the flow of blood until the paramedics got there. He had seconds to live. All we can do is wait for paramedics. He kept saying, dont hurt mantecore, dont let anyone hurt mantecore. Because he did nothing wrong. And roy knew also he did nothing wrong. And obviously, thats what we did, no one hurt mantecore. The next thing i remember is roy being wheeled out by the paramedics and hearing him gasping for breath. Hes gone. Hes hes gone. Hes dead. The paramedics are there. They have now whisked roy away for emergency treatment, but the audience, can you just imagine the audience . They dont even know what happened. From the moment he left stage, it was just complete silence until siegfried came out, and he said something the effect that he had been injured, and that the show was canceled. I guess the first time i really realized that this was, this was real and that this guy was seriously hurt was when i walked out of the auditorium and just noticed grownups, grown women crying on their, sitting on the seats on the slot machines, just sobbing. And after he left, somebody said, i dont i know were not all religious here, but, you know, i think its appropriate that we all say a prayer. And everybody held hands and just prayed and waited for news. Roy was slashed by his own tiger across his neck. He is unable to maintain his own airway. He is also not able to speak. We are unable to get Blood Pressure at this time. Heart rate of 142. Incredibly, on the way to the hospital, they encountered another crisis. A train crossing. So the gates are down. They cant move, and theyre losing precious seconds, precious seconds when this man has lost so much blood. Breaking news. In front of hundreds of fans on the Las Vegas Strip tonight, one of the rare tigers at Siegfried Roy attacked. Officials are reporting that horn was attacked in the throat by one of those tigers. When you came to the hospital, the whole parking lot was filled with network tv vans. Roy was rushed here just little after 8 20, and since then friends, family members have being coming out here in front of the hospital, hoping for some good news. And they were all giving reports about whether the guy was gonna survive or not. Clark county Fire Department says roy is in serious and critical condition. He lost a huge amount of blood after that attack by the tiger on stage. That night in the hospital, the doctors gave you a really grim prognosis. Oh, yes. For some reason, i always thought somehow we are gonna pull it through. It was numbing. It was devastating. Roys life hangs by a thread. Its life or death. His heart wasnt working. He actually flatlined. Or died. We lost vital signs on him. And now the future of Siegfried Roy, and the future of roys life hangs in the balance. Yes hey sean hey dan hey allergy muddlers. Achoo . Do your sneezes turn heads . Try zyrtec. It starts working hard at hour one. And works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Zyrtec muddle no more. This is mias pulse. With pressure rising, and racing. This is also mias pulse. That her doctor keeps in check, so she can find balance. This is mias pulse, and now its more stable than ever. This is what medicare from Blue Cross Blue Shield does for mia. And with over 80 years of healthcare expertise, imagine what we can do for you. This is the benefit of blue. [ ominous music plays ] [ thhello, mirror. Makeup mode mirror done. Find show times for maleficent mistress of evil. Mirror searching show times. Purchase tickets. Ugh. And more nail polish. Mirror ok. Purchased. Start wickedly fun playlist. [ evil laugh ] humans are hilarious. Breaking news. One of the rare tigers at Siegfried Roy attacked. Horn was attacked in the throat. A tiger bite to the neck, we dont see that on a daily basis like a gunshot wound. So you have no idea what to expect. This is an animals mouth with razor sharp teeth. Two puncture wounds to the back of the neck, two slash wounds to the front part of the neck. Youre talking about major blood vessels, very rapid rate of blood loss and hemorrhage. The structure you worry about being compressed is the trachea which is how we get air. We had to operate on his neck where the wounds were at and control that bleeding. Within three minutes, you start getting irreversible brain damage. The whole section of his brain up here, blood flow stopped for a while. Thats a stroke. A major stroke. Depending on what part of the brain is deprived of blood flow and oxygen will determine what kind of consequences that stroke has for a person. They told me he was clinically dead three times. They tell me he never would talk, never would speak. This is the way how its going to be. Family members and also a lot of fans have been coming out here in front of the hospital hoping for some good news. When did you realize, theres something wrong here. Im im really hurt . I was laying on an operation table, had like kind of an out of body experience. You had an out of body experience where you saw that h . Yeah, i stepped off the table, i see a bright, bright light, and i followed the light. But i get the definite message to return. Things were really touching and go there for quite a while, but never once did that man give up, never once. When he came out, i had no idea really what his prognosis was going to be. Unl the patient is awake and you can examine them, you really dont know what the extent is. What got you through that . Well, first of all, the people. There was such an outpour of love all over. We are here tonight for Siegfried Roy. Hundreds of people standing in front of the hospital with the candles and singing and praying. Siegfried roy were beloved in vegas. So there was just this outpouring of love and concern, people just turning out, writing messages of support. The next morning, he comes to the hospital with this music that he and roy had used on stage before, and he plays it. And he sees a tear running down roys face, and he says that at that moment, he knew that roy was going to survive. Right after the accident happens, the usda steps in and launches a massive investigation. They interviewed dozens of witnesses because there were many of them sitting just feet from the stage when this happened. You have said that roy was not attacked. Exactly. By mantecore. No, it was an accident. Siegfried roy both believe that roy had some kind of incident, a small stroke, in the show, at that moment, and fell down, and animal instincts took over and he got up and straddled roy, leaned over and picked him up the way he would pick up a cub. And then he picked me up and pulled me to the other side of the stage for my safety. You really firmly believe that mantecore saved your life . Yeah, absolutely. And that he saved your life because you think you were already having a stroke . Yeah. Even though doctors arent sure if the stroke happened before or after, you are sure it happened before . Yeah. That is not what Chris Lawrence claims happened, and chris was right there. Chris lawrence was an animal handler who had worked for Siegfried Roy back in the 90s, by all accounts a good animal handler. Well, the night of the accident, Chris Lawrence was working. He was in the wings of the stage watching. He says that mantecore missed his mark. Roy then tried to redirect him not by walking him in a circle as he has traditionally done, and that mantecore got confused. Mantecore lunged or moved towards roy and roy slipped and fell. Chris says that mantecore attacked roy. Chris lawrence went public speaking out about his version of events. He went on inside edition. Mantecore leapt at roy and swiped at his legs and took him off his feet. How horrifying was that to see up close . More than i can describe. And roys yelling, get him off. Get him off. Get him off. And it was right about that time that mantecore bit him in the neck. Do you think this was human error that led to this tiger attack . Yes, i do. In his view, mantecore attacked roy and bit him on the neck. And he thinks it was because roy made mistakes on the stage. Their relationship with the animals was their magic power, and when that happened it kind of was a dent in that mythical world that we associate em with. Chris lawrence has come forward now, saying i know. That roy essentially was to blame. Was he . No way. And that this story yeah. Is just a cover to save the brand and save the image. What do you say to that . Well, i feel very sorry for chris. He had in his life all these problems. You know what i mean . That animal was behaving as a tiger typically behaves. I feel like the semantics between the word attack and accident, incident those are those are language discussions more than tiger bite discussions. Everybody who works in this business, eventually, the tiger will try to attack you. But that reward of that bond, and that that experience with that animal is far more valuable to us than the fear of what possibly might happen. I love you, too. Give me a nice smile. Yeah. Next, would roy ever be what he once was . Do your asthma symptoms ever hold you back . About 50 of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. Eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. 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Siegfried was right there by roys side for every painful step. All right. Youre doing it. If i wouldnt see it with my own eyes hallelujah. The rehab is, by all accounts, grueling that you have had to endure. Well, not really, i enjoy it. You do . Yes. I have to trick him. No, no, no, i have to trick him. Hey, this is not this is my show now. Okay. Roy horn, of Siegfried Roy, has left the hospital in los angeles and returned home to las vegas to continue his recovery. When he returned to the animal compound after a lengthy period away, we expected perhaps there to be some difference with his animals. There was absolutely no difference whatsoever. I had a chance to spend some time with roy at little bavaria, his home in las vegas. So every morning and every night you make this walk around the grounds . Yeah. This is how i condition myself. Should i take your arm . No. No . You got it. And to see actually firsthand how important those animals were to roys own recovery. Whats good for me is good for them. Siegfried has said that it was being with your animals that got you to get up and walk, that would be yeah, thats true. Real motivation. Yeah. When you say that being with the animals is your real rehab, are you talking physical, or are you talking psychological . Both. But you arent able to roll around on the ground like you used to with them . No, not quite. Theres a little bit of a setback now. Im not quick like i used to be. Siegfried has never left his side since that night. That friendship, the love those guys share is quite amazing. Right there. Okay. Good. Siegfried, its a very unusual relationship you two have. You are its true. Brothers. We are brothers. We are actually more than brothers, i would say. Are you lovers . I love roy like my brother. What happens to you now . How has this affected you, this man that you are so close to. You know, now i realize how important he was in my life. He teaches me about life. He gave me, he believed, the strengths of my life. After more than ten years of greeting visitors on the strip, the Siegfried Roy marquee was removed. Both Siegfried Roy were wounded in this accident. It was very, very difficult for siegfried. He lost part of his soul then too. Without roys influence, siegfried didnt know what path he was on. When roy started to recover, he took siegfried along with him. And as you see them now, they walk next to each other, siegfried supports roy, roy supports siegfried. Siegfried, the act is over now, isnt it . Siegfried roy . You know, we are creative. Siegfried roy were in the moment. Theyre both thickheaded and they and i mean that with love. Because they want to accomplish what they set their mind to. What new ground can we break . Where can we put magic in the pop culture, where it hasnt been before . There are possibilities of the two of you working together in animated. Exactly. There are so many things, there is still so much to do. A year after the incident, father of the pride premiered on nbc. We should totally reinvent ourselves. Father of the pride was a cgi animated show. Did you see the look on siegfrieds face . It was number one in its timeslot in its first showing. By showing 13, it s off the network. So the question was, whats gonna be the next for Siegfried Roy . For these two, the ultimate would be getting back on stage. But many people wondered whether well, clearly those people did not know Siegfried Roy. [trumpet plays] [gust of wind] [sounds of items hitting phone] [trumpet plays] [thud] [spray of sprinklers] [trumpet plays] this is jamie. Youre going to be seeing a lot more of him now. Im not calling him dad. Oh, nno. Look, [sighs] i get it. Some new guy comes in helping your mom bundle and save with progressive, but hey, weall inhis together. Right, champ . Im getting more nuggets. How about some carrots . You dont want to ruin your dinner. Youre not my dad thats fair. Overstepped. Thats fair. 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And i think this is a very nice au revoir, auf wiedersehen, you know . Its so no coincidence that youre choosing toout hp institute that is devoted to brain injuries . Exactly right. And all the money goes to the research here. All right. So in many ways, this is a cause that is very close to your heart. Very close to my heart. The show was our life. Now we continue with our life. They went to their old warehouse with all their old props to sort of look around for some ideas, because, remember, it was six years since they had been on stage. We had to recreate ourselves, but we go right to this spirit of Siegfried Roy. So they began planning, but the big question was, what could they still do . Doing magic shows is really hard. And the skills of performing fade so quickly. So after Something Like that, and that long, years, its really, really hard. So with this show, will it look somewhat familiar to fans who have seen the shows that youve been putting on for so many years . Of course, i have to reinvent myself because of roy, you know . But i think we are going to pull it off pretty good. Now, Siegfried Roy have been out of practice for a long time. And what about the animals . They know better than we. Thats right. They knew it better than us. To muster the nerve to go back into a environment where youve been attacked. The emotions behind it must have been very difficult. Who is dropping the curtain . Bill and dave. Bill and dave . Yes, sir. Siegfried roys names were once again in lights. Nerves were starting to build. Youll be nervous . Of course. A lot of people see it as a comeback, but i see it as an opportunity to create a different magic. Magic that comes from the heart. Finally, the night is here. Vegas is buzzing. Family and friends and celebrities have come from all over the world to see these two. It is a big night, a huge night. To see roy out there performing, i have goose bumps. Im looking forward to it. Everybody else is. Its a big deal. But theres a big question in the room. Can they really pull this off . This was their chance to show that they could do their show again, and to end their show on their own terms. Now its not just a magic show, now its a magic show and its a guy on a tightrope. I have an announcement to make. The spirit of Siegfried Roy has just arrived. I think really seeing roy and recognizing that it was him walking. I think thats really what got most of us. We all started we all started bawling. What was that like for you as you watched roy slowly, sort of unsteadily walk out to assume the stage again . It really moved you. The people ah that was showtime. Magic, the illusion, is what made Siegfried Roy great. And on this night as they began, you start to wonder do they still have the ability to deceive the audience in a delightful way. You see one of these massive, majestic tigers. A tiger that Siegfried Roy say is mantecore. Which is dramatic, really dramatic, given the fact that the last time mantecore shared the stage with roy, he nearly died. Instead of roy disappearing, reappearing, this time it was siegfried disappearing, reappearing. So its like the circle of life, you know . They met in the middle. And what did it feel like for you that night . It was an unbelievable i cant say how what how i felt like. And they raised, on top of it, 14 million for that hospital, so i was very proud. My god, Siegfried Roy, we are still you still had it . Thats what they say. You still got it. Next, from triumph to big questions. Were Siegfried Roy breeding a were Siegfried Roy breeding a controversy . Not actors, whove got their eczema r control. With less eczema, you can show more skin. So roll up those sleeves. And help heal your skin from within with dupixent. Dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderatetosevere eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. 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They dont consider it a zoo, its kind of like an oasis on vegas strip, where a lot of their animals are now living since the show ended. We have 20 big cats and the people that come here can see the white tigers who are extinct in the wild. So this is actually the only place where you can witness tigers. White tigers, that close up. Today Siegfried Roy obviously enjoy the quietness. Theyre still very involved with conservation, preservation, education. Look, it took Mother Nature centuries to create what she created. She wove her magic, which we are privileged to see now. I think the perception of the white tiger came from magic shows. They made the pure white cats some sort of mythical, magical thing that people became absolutely fascinated with. I can understand why Siegfried Roy would like to rebrand the white tiger as the royal white tiger, cause it does sort of create this mystery around them. But there are no royal white tigers. The white tiger is not a separate species. Its actually a genetic mutation of a gene. 1 in 10,000 regular tigers are born with this genetic mutation that gives them this white fur and this blue eyes. But theyre not a separate creature. Its just a tiger that happens to be white. White tigers really, for the most part, are bred because how they look. Its all about that striking appearance. These are inbred animals that all come back to one animal, the first white tiger that was captive. Remember mohan, the first white tiger that was captured in india . All of these tigers and these little cubs trace back to him. Mohan was bred back to his daughter, to try to produce this white tiger. So thats where the inbreeding came about. Unfortunately, because theres been so much inbreeding, theres a lot of problems with the tigers that you now see today in captivity. So, ranging from crooked backs to club feet, internal problems, kidney problems. There have been no reports of genetic abnormalities with Siegfried Roys white tigers. In fact, they say they practiced conscientious breeding to avoid mating tigers that were closely related. And they say they stopped breeding tigers back in 2015. Hello, baby. Youre not going to get in the pool . Turpentine creek Animal Sanctuary has rescued dozens of cats from all across the country. And here you can see what can sometimes happen when white tigers are inbred. One whos kind of famous, kenny, that we rescued in back in 2000. He was deformed in the face. A lot of them are very visibly crosseyed. Education is key. Its definitely looked down upon now, the breeding of white tigers. In an effort to limit inbreeding, in 2011 the aza, or the American Zoological Association, banned its member zoos from breeding white tigers. Remember the secret garden is not a zoo, its not a member of the aza. A few years ago the American Zoological Association banned breeding animals like this to get a white tiger, a white lion. What do you think of this ban . They say that is bad for the animals. Of course they say it is not good to be to be bred strictly for these traits. Theyll say its not right to have animals in a confined area. Its on seven acres, the secret garden. And you can see theyre happy, and theyre good. Its a different world now. Seaworld is now longer having killer whales perform, animals are not performing in circuses anymore. Could you have this show today, given the way the world is and the way were looking at animals today . No. Today you would come and say, look, i have white tigers. No. It will be no more. Because its a different world now. No question about it. C they want to get rid of their pain as quickly as possible. Patients want something that works faster for them. Why would somebody want to suffer if there is options that they dont need to. I think dentists will want to recommend sensodyne rapid relief. 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If you hear it, you found it, you say you found your dreams. Magic is the same as it was 5,000 years ago in ancient egypt. You could come from any nation, speak any language, watch Siegfried Roy, and have a great time. Do you miss it . Do you miss the stage . No, i really dont miss it. We have been on stage in vegas for 40 years. And we had the most successful show in the history of las vegas. I always wanted to please everybody. You know, the audience and the producer, and everything. Now once in a while i get little things. You can stop and see the flowers. I think now im the happiest in my life. I think its inescapable that, looking at the history of entertainment in las vegas, Siegfried Roy transformed it. Thats why there are two bronze statues on the strip. To reflect on their contributions to las vegas. It sort of transcended everything that las vegas had seen till then. And that led to cirque du soleil, and that led to blue man group, and that led to criss angel. All of them kind of patterned that show off of what the Siegfried Roy show was at the mirage. I think it has to be an end of a chapter with the show closing. I dont think youre gonna get that kind of glitzy, big magic machinery with animals that means vegas done by anybody else. And i dont think theres any greater tribute to them than that. As a magician, youre a storyteller at heart. Their narrative is, come join us where everything is incredible. When you watched these big cats onstage with roy, you were transported to a fantasy world. They dedicated their lives to that illusion. Up literally, in roys case to the brink of death, he defended the integrity of that illusion. What do you want your legacy to be . What do you want people to remember Siegfried Roy for . Siegfried roy . My legacy . You can achieve everything. Its the american story, from the dishwasher to, what . To Siegfried Roy. You know, i love what deborah. You can achieve anything. And theyre working on a major movie, the story of their lives. Thanks for watching, everyone. Im amy robach. And im david muir. From all of us at 20 20 and abc news, have a good evening. Well see you next week. Good night. Has been excellent. They really appreciate the military family and it really shows. With all that usaa offers why go with anybody else . We know their rates are good, we know that theyre always going to take care of us. It was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. It was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey would say oh we cant beat usaa were the webber family. Were the tenneys were the hayles, and were usaa members for life. Get your usaa Auto Insurance quote today