WWE star Tammy Sytch breaks down in tears as she’s jailed for 17 years for killing man, 75, in horror crash

WWE legend Tammy Sytch has been jailed for 17 years for her involvement in a car accident that killed a 75-year-old man.

Sytch, 50, previously pleaded no contest to the counts leveled against her - including a count of driving under the influence causing death. 

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Sytch was driving a sedan on March 25, 2022, when she crashed into a vehicle that had stopped at a red light near Ormond Beach, Florida.

She slammed into the stopped car being driven by Julian Lasseter, whose car then hit another vehicle.

Lasseter, 75, died of his injuries after the crash, which left multiple others injured.

Sytch, a former wrestler was handed a 10-and-a-half-year sentence for driving with a suspended license and an additional seven years for DUI manslaughter.

Following her release, Sytch will also serve eight years of probation.

There will be several conditions to her probation, including a substance abuse evaluation, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Sytch received a 566-day credit for the time she has already served in the Volusia County Branch Jail.

Wearing an orange jumpsuit in court, she addressed the victim's family, saying: "I know my words are not enough but please know that I think about you every day," TMZ reported.

She appeared in the courtroom in handcuffs and reportedly broke down in tears during her speech.

“If I could bring Mr. Lasseter back and take his place I would in an instant,” Sytch said.

'DANGER TO SOCIETY'

Assistant State Attorney Ashley Terwilleger had been seeking a maximum sentence of 25 years behind bars for Sytch, who had been called “a danger to society."

Sytch pleaded no contest to DUI manslaughter, four counts of DUI with damage to person, and two counts of DUI with damage to property on August 26.

She was arrested in May 2022, two months after the crash.

But that wasn't her first run-in with the law.

That arrest came just four months after Sytch's release from an eight-month prison stint for a previous DUI.

She was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and charged with her sixth DUI in 2019.

WWE HALL OF FAMER

Sunny, as she was commonly known, gained mainstream fame after bursting onto the wrestling scene in the late 1990s.

Some consider her to be the first WWE Diva.

From 1995 to 1998, she worked for the World Wrestling Federation and even commentated for Live Event News segments on WWF television shows.

She then worked at Extreme Championship Wrestling for a year and then joined WCW, World Championship Wrestling in 2000.

Sytch has made WWE appearances in 2007, 2009, and 2011.

She was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 2, 2011.

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