The Benbella Books The Last Hart Beating Hardcover

While most children grow up running around with their friends, Nattie Neidhart was schooled in the Hart family Dungeon, in the shadow of her grandfather Stu Hart, father Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart, and legendary uncles Bret and Owen Hart. With every body slam and piledriver, Nattie fought her own way into pro wrestling - the first and only woman in her family to do so - to become a two-time women's world champion and one of the most visible, titled, and world record-holding Superstars in WWE. In this raw, unwaveringly honest memoir, Nattie opens up for the first time about her life as the legacy of the Hart family dynasty, candidly sharing untold details on: Her chaotic childhood in the boom-and-bust world of professional wrestling, including her family's brush with homelessness; Her father's battles with addiction and other effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, leading to his eventual sudden death, and how they shaped her; Her struggle to navigate the complex dynamics between the Hart family and WWE in the aftermath of the Montreal Screwjob, Owen Hart's tragic death, and her husband TJ Wilson's near-fatal, career-ending, in-ring injury; Her front-row seat to the rise of women's wrestling and the resilience it took to thrive as a female wrestler at a time when what you looked like on screen was more important than how talented you were between the ropes. From heart-pounding glory to devastating loss, The Last Hart Beating pulls no punches when it comes to the drama, hilarity, and outright mayhem of life inside the ring and out.