Inside The Heartbreaking Death Of Professional Wrestler & Actor André the Giant
May 6 2022, Published 9:41 a.m. ET
The newest upcoming episode of Reelz's Autopsy: The Last Hours Of… reveals what killed wrestling legend, André The Giant, who was seven feet tall, four hundred pounds and was billed as the Eighth Wonder of the World.
The professional fighter died in a Paris hotel room when he was just 46 years old, and now Breaking Celebrity News has your exclusive first look into the upcoming special that draws back the curtain and shows you just what happened, and what was going on, in the days and hours leading up to the star’s untimely passing.
Trading on his extraordinary physique André Roussimoff was one of wrestling’s biggest draws back in the 1970’s and 80’s. So, naturally, it was only a matter of time before the Hollywood movie industry came calling.
In 1986, André starred in his first, and arguably most successful, film: the fantasy hit The Princess Bride.
But although he was very social and charismatic when in public, privately he was being haunted by his size – something he struggled with regularly throughout his life.
