Former WWE Champion Bray Wyatt unexpectedly passed away at the age of 36 last week.
Earlier this month, Fightful Select reported that the illness Wyatt was dealing with was both career and life threatening.
In an update from Fightful (they were given permission by the family to release this information), Wyatt caught COVID-19 earlier this year, which exacerbated heart issues for him. There was a lot of positive progress towards a return and his recovery.
Unfortunately, he suffered a heart attack and passed away.
TMZ is now reporting that Wyatt wasn’t wearing a doctor-recommended heart defibrillator at the time of his death:
“According to law enforcement records, Windham told his girlfriend he was going to take a nap Thursday, and she became concerned when she heard his alarm going off about an hour later without stopping.
The report says Windham was discovered in his bed, not breathing, and was turning blue. Windham’s girlfriend called 911, as her mother attempted CPR … but he was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Cops spoke with Windham’s immediate family members who said he had COVID in March 2023 and developed heart complications – causing him to have a ‘weak lower part of his heart’.
In fact, just a week before he died, Windham was hospitalized for a heart issue. He had a follow-up appointment with doctors the morning he died and was advised to continue to wear an external heart defibrillator – a device designed to treat people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest.
Though it’s not known if the device would have saved his life, investigators determined Windham was not wearing the defib at the time of his death … they later located it inside his vehicle parked in the driveway.”
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