around, they deny everything. they gave those family members a sense of false promise.e and when i saw them doing that, it broke my heart. i started crying. m my wife walks into my room because i still was recovering from my leg injury, and she saw me sobbing, and i couldn t even talk.an and she asked me what was wrong with me, and i just pointed to the tv, look what they re doing. when i did that, i saw my wife, my mom, and my son doing the same thing in their position, begging for an acknowledgement that something bad happened not only to me but to the country, to the country, to the
him about use of performance enhancing drugs? i don t know how the doctor phrased the question, but his response was that he had taken epo and testosterone and growth hormone and cortisone. also in the hospital that day was stephanie macelvane who worked as a rep for one of his main sponsors oakley. when we were deposed the day after stephanie called me sobbing. she said her husband was called into one of the higher ups in the company where he is vice president for oakley, one of lance s sponsors. and stephanie was told if you make the company look bad, you re go i think to lose your job. and so we said, that s it. she s going to lie. she s going to lie. she s not going to say it happened. were you ever at a hospital room or other part of the hospital with mr. armstrong where he said anything about performance enhancing drugs?
warren and his wife kay appeared on cnn s piers morgan live for their first interview since matthew s death. matthew was not afraid to die. he was afraid of pain. i remember ten years ago when he was 17, he came to me sobbing. and he said, daddy, he said, it s really clear. i m not going to get any better. we ve gone to the best doctors. the best hospitals. the best treatments. therapists. prayer. everything you can imagine. good support. and he says, it s real clear, i m not going to get any better. so why can t i just die? i know i m going to heaven. i know i m going to heaven, so why can t i? he was not afraid to die. what did you say to him, rick? in that situation i said, matthew, the reason why is there is a purpose, even in our pain. and i am not willing to just give up and say that the solution isn t there. you might give up. but as your father, as your mother, we re not ever giving up that we won t find the solution. because i really believe matthew
was like mom, there s a white van in the driveway and i knew she had an adverse reaction to it because her voice started to get shaky and she just told me to stay upstairs until, you know, she had finished her business with the two men who arrived in our driveway that day in july and i remember once i had been told she called me downstairs and kept saying we re going to be okay, we re going to be okay and i was wondering what had happened. and she started off by saying, your father was a very brave man. and i automatically knew. and of course, i sobbed, but it was, you know, the first sob of many, but i like to think of the cries i do now as you know, more therapeutic and more of a release that s happy. and you just about have me sobbing, that s a powerful story, jenna, something we don t want to have happen to a ments no, absolutely not. mike: a young lady eight years old. wesley when did it hit you he
white vans the same way anymore. i called my mom and said there was a white van in the driveway and knew she had a reaction to it. her voice started to get a little shaky and told me to stay upstairs until she finished the business with the two men who arrived in our driveway in the white van that day in july. she called me downstairs and kept saying we re going to be okay and i was wondering what happened and she started off by saying your father was a very brave man and i automatically knew. and of course i sobbed but it was, you know, the first sob of many. i like to think of the cries i do now as more therapeutic and a release that is happy. you just about have me sobbing. that is a powerful story, jenna and something we don t want to have happen to a young lady who is 8 years old. that is stunning. wesley, when did it hit you that he was never coming home again?