Nancy Benoit’s Sister Reveals What She Thinks Drove Chris Benoit To The Double-Murder Suicide

Sandra Toffoloni is the sister of Nancy Benoit. If you are unfamiliar, Nancy was married to former professional wrestler Chris Benoit and they had a son named Daniel. The story ended in tragedy with the infamous double-murder suicide from Chris to his family in 2007. Sandra was on a recent episode of Talk is Jericho to discuss the loss of her sister, nephew and brother-in-law 9 years ago. Jericho and Benoit were good friends before the tragedy so the podcast provided a unique insight into all things that happened. Here were some of the highlights.

Sandra doesn’t just pin Chris Benoit’s murder-suicide on brain damage, she says it was from a wide variety of reasons:

“I think that it [drug abuse] was a huge contributing factor to what happened. The autopsy said so, I had seen it prior to that — the alcohol and medication, not just the steroids but everything else that had been going on — it was a huge factor. I know that everyone talks about the concussion issue with Christopher, maybe that played a role as well, the autopsy never said he had Alzheimer’s, that he couldn’t find his way, the things they are saying related to concussions wasn’t Chris and wasn’t anything I observed ever. That guy could get in and out of an airport in eight minutes flat, and I mean any airport. It wasn’t that, it was a combination of a lot of things. A huge boulder of weight from loss and grief, I think it was a ton of medication altering his body chemistry, his brain chemistry, alcohol, everything that was going on at that time” (Source: Talk Is Jercho, H/T The Inquisitr).

 

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She continued:

“I know there were issues in the house that he was having, again, with himself. Struggling inside with things that are privy to he and I, and my family and my sister, that I wouldn’t put on blast for anyone to know. But that coupled with the facts of what I know from being there immediately after that weekend, and seeing everything, it wasn’t the act of someone with brain damage. It wasn’t, it’s impossible for that to have been the case. I understand the necessity to want to put it on something and say, ‘this is why he did it, this is the reason right here.’ Because the daily pain of not knowing why and not really knowing what happened, is crippling. I can’t put it on any one thing; it was a combination of many things, outside factors, and an inner struggle that he had been going through for quite some time after Eddie and everyone else…he almost had this look in his eye — it wasn’t more of who’s next, it was more of, am I next — in his eyes” (Source: Talk Is Jercho, H/T The Inquisitr).

You can listen to the full episode here.

Some great insight from a person close to the situation. Incredibly tragic situation.