In a promo during Friday’s episode of SmackDown, Kevin Owens revealed that he had been at his mother’s hospital bedside all week.
Owens said that he received a phone call from his father on Monday morning to tell him that his mother had been rushed to hospital and that he needed to come home.
He said that he flew to Quebec immediately and had spent the week at the hospital where his mother gave birth to him, watching her “fight like hell”.
He added that he could have stayed at home and no one in the company would have had an issue, but that the one person it would have been a problem for was his mom.
In full, Owens said:
I could probably talk about the last four years of my life fighting The Bloodline. But what I think I’d rather do is talk about the last four days of my life. Because on Monday morning, I got a call from my dad.
I got a call from my dad telling me that my mom was rushed to the hospital and I needed to get home. So I jumped on a flight and I flew back to Quebec. And that’s where I’ve been for the last five days or so — in the same hospital where she gave birth to me, with my dad and my brother at her bedside, watching her fight like hell.
The shows in Toronto are always super special for all of us ‘cause everybody gets to get together, the kids get to see their grandparents; all the family’s there and everybody gets to enjoy wrestling together. But my dad and my mom are not here tonight. They won’t be here tomorrow because my mom is still in that hospital bed, fighting like hell.
And I know I could have stayed home tonight and it wouldn’t have been a problem with anybody back there, or out here. And I probably should have stayed home but I didn’t because the one person it would have been a problem for is my mother. Because ever since I was 11 years old and I discovered professional wrestling in WWE, she did everything she could, along with my dad, to make sure that I would realize my dream and get to WWE.
She wanted me to fight like hell. She told me every single time to come in here and leave it all in the ring. So, if she knew, if she heard, that I had missed the show because of her, she’d be so pissed. So here I am.
He then segued the real-life crisis into the storyline of his Money in the Bank match with Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes vs. The Bloodline:
Bloodline, let me tell you this: I am more serious than I’ve ever been in my entire career. Tomorrow, win, lose or draw, all I care about is that I do what my mom has wanted me to do for the last four years. And that is not just kick the living hell out of The Bloodline, it’s to beat their asses worse than ever before.
