MAYBE SHE SHOULD LEARN THE PILEDRIVER?

Steve Austin, Ex-Girlfriend Involved In Another Brawl...

"Steve Austin and ex-girlfriend Tess Broussard were involved in yet another physical confrontation earlier this month, this time at Beverly Hills, California restaurant Il Fornaio's, ending up with a trip to the emergency room, an arrest, and a lawsuit filed. This time, however, the former WWE champion isn't staying silent. 

According to an article in the paid subscription area of The Los Angeles Times today, Austin and his business manager George Vrabeck had brought Broussard to California to present her with a $1.5 million check in exchange for Broussard moving on and out of Austin's life and agreeing not to pursue legal ramifications over different incidents involving the couple over the last year. 

"I'm not a rocket scientist," Austin told The Times "But I knew I had to get out of this relationship....The plan was to go out, have a nice steak, hand [Broussard] a check and get on with my life." 

After having dinner with Broussard at Mastro's Steakhouse, the two went to meet Vrabeck, who was eating at Il Fornaio nearby, waiting with the check and a security guard stationed in a parked car. Once they arrived, however, Austin said that things changed, " All of a sudden Tess said, 'Honey, we're not breaking up. We just had a wonderful night.' She started getting really irate, saying, 'You can't do this — you just can't break up with me now.'" 

Austin told The Times that Broussard, "...went up over the top of the table with a steak knife and she was trying to stab me." Vrabeck got involved and everyone went down in a scuffle. Austin's security guard handcuffed Broussard to a chair. Vrabeck ended up with a deep cut to his left arm while Austin banged his head on the sidewalk. 

Broussard, who works an actress in softcore films, claimed in a lawsuit that was filed last week that Austin and Vrabeck lured her to the restaurant to stage a fabricated assault. The lawsuit asks for $10 million in damages and brings up a Texas incident from several months ago where Austin allegedly caused her permanent injury while driving drunk and hitting a tree with her as passenger. It's noted in the article that Austin claimed to be sober during the accident and that police reports of the incident back Austin's claim. 

Broussard's series of events in Beverly Hills were, as expected, completely different from Austin's. She told the Times that Vrabeck, "grabbed me and shoved me down in my chair. When I tried to get up, out of nowhere some guy came up from behind me and knocked me down, yelling, 'Get down!' as if gunshots were going to be fired. The next thing I know, he's on top of me and I'm handcuffed. And there's George dumping over the table. Then I see him bend down and it looks like he's stabbing himself. All of a sudden, he says, 'I'm bleeding,' and the bodyguard says, 'I saw you stab him!' "Obviously I'd been set up. Steve had threatened me, in no uncertain terms, that I'd get screwed over if I didn't drop [a proposed] personal injury suit." 

Broussard was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, which carries a maximum penalty of a $10,000 fine and four years in prison. She is due in court on 9/1 and is currently out on $30,000 bail. 

The article noted that Austin's manager, Barry Bloom, has hired Sitrick & Co., a crisis-management public relations firm that has represented the likes of Rush Limbaugh, R. Kelly and Paula Poundstone in the past. The firm's Michael Mayer told the Times that he instructed Austin to come forth first. "Steve is a celebrity with millions of fans," said Mayer. "If he's involved in anything that smacks of something lurid or sensational, it's going to affect him. If you don't tell your own story, someone is going to tell it for you, and chances are you won't like the way it comes out." 

Broussard alleged in the article that while things were good early in the relationship, Austin, "turned into another character — mean, horrible, violent and emotionally abusive. He drank every night, beginning at 6 p.m. until he would pass out around 1 a.m." When it was noted that Austin claimed she had a problem with medication, she responded, "He got me started on pills. He'd open my mouth like an animal and stick the pills in my mouth. He said, if I'm taking them, you're taking them too." Austin denied the charge while admitting he takes a variety of prescription drugs, prescribed for insomnia and "neurological issues," stemming from his neck issues after the Owen Hart tombstone at Summerslam '97. 

The article notes that both admit a March incident in Austin's San Antonio home (he's since moved to Los Angeles and is staying with Diamond Dallas Page). Broussard claimed that Austin, "stomped on my broken foot where I have permanent physical damage from the car accident." Austin claims that when he tried to leave the home, Broussard grabbed a gold necklace around his neck (the one given to him by the late Brian Pillman) and jumped on his back, forcing him to physically remove her. Broussard claimed that she didn't file charges as she planned, saying, "I played everything down. I got scared. He said he'd screw me over if I filed charges." Austin denied that charge as well. 

The article also features comments from Henry Garza, lead guitarist of Texas rock band Los Lonely Boys, who claimed that he saw Broussard once pull a gun on Austin. "She put it right up to Steve's head, like she was trying to get him to do something," he says. "Then she pointed it at me, which was when I really got scared." Broussard claimed that she recalled "playing" with a gun but never pointed it ay anyone and "I didn't pick it up in anger." 

Asked why they would still continue to see each other despite all the problems in the past, Broussard claimed, "I was naive. He'd apologize and say he'd change and go to counseling, but he never did. He told me I was his soul mate, so I kept going back and really believed in the relationship. But it was a lot of empty promises." 

Austin's response? "I kept seeing her because, as kooky as she was, I still loved her. I feel like I've been a pawn on the chessboard. I was too trusting and too nice, and that's what I'll have to live with." 

Austin, the biggest drawing star in American professional wrestling history, left World Wrestling Entertainment several months ago after failing to come to contractual terms. He's currently working on the new Adam Sandler film, "The Longest Yard."

Clearly, Miss Broussard’s insane, which is surprising to me considering how normal and level -headed those in the sex industry usually are…..

And as for her claims that the whole Restaurant scene was “staged” by Austin and company, let me say this: A manager who’ll STAB HIMSELF for a client, is a manager I want on my side! Wow! Talk about your dedication right there. Imagine what he'd do to get you a movie role. Motherfucker would draw and quarter himself and plunk his hot insteines on the table before the fucking breadsticks even showed up.

Anyway, the fact that Austin offered her 1 and a half million (or one week’s beer ration) to GET RID of her should tell you something. Especially when the STUNNER always seemed to work so much better for him. Ahem.

Seriously (umm, kind of) though, I am surprised however that Austin would go to that sort of length (the 1.5 million bribe) to rid her from his life, especially when he’s never been shy about getting his piston-like right hands dirty himself, so to speak (see the ring shaped backwards smoking skull in Debra’s forehead).

Honestly, I think I lean more towards Austin in this one, although the sick side of me can see Austin jumping on alleged Tess’s broken foot. HE's DONE IT BEFORE.…You know, after positioning it under a steel chair and leaping from the roof of his pick up truck. If it's good enough for Brian Pillman, than by god, it's good enough for this tart. Because, let's face it, she's NO BRIAN PILLMAN. Although, after all the porn she's done she'd easily work under the moniker LOOSE CANYON.

In any event, it’ll be interesting to see where this goes, and hopefully this situation won’t reach O.J. levels. But hey, that'd work for me, too. If only to see Austin shrug his shoulders when a big gigantic orthopedic knee brace doesn't fit during the trial...