The legendary Chuck Norris was born in 1940, in Ryan, Oklahoma. He describes himsedl as, “the shy kid who never excelled at anything in school.”
He had attended to North Torrance High School. He was 14, when he had helped his mother, Wilma with taking care of his siblings.
“God has a plan for you,” his mother had said to him.
“She loves Jesus with all of her heart and soul and made sure we understood that [growing up],”
“She influenced me spiritually and instilled in me a sense of responsibility that carried over in my later adult life, she always told me ‘God has plans for you,’ and I didn’t know what she meant. I think I do now.”
He was at the Osan Air Base in South Korea, where he had learnt the marshall arts. On his stay at the Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, he had a hispanic friend, asked what Carlos meant in English.
Norris had said, “I said,’ yea, it is Charles,’” and continued as, “Then he said,’ The nickname for Charles is Chuck. That is what I am going to call you.’ Well, all the guys started calling me Chuck and it stuck.”
“I thought that maybe 500 schools was better than owning six schools, well turns out it wasn’t. Anyway, two years later, I lost everything. It took me five years to get out of that hole and pay all the creditors back. In the meantime, I was trying to decide what I was going to do with my life,”
“Finally I found an acting school that I was able to take on my GI bill through the military,”
“So I went back to school to learn acting. Then I went out trying to find work (as an actor) but I was competing against guys with years and years of experience.”
“I said ‘this isn’t going to work.’ So I wound up writing my own screenplay and finally, you know through sheer determination and faith I sold the idea and made it a reality. That was in 1977. That really was the beginning of my career.”
“It was amazing because when I got to Rome my fighting weight was 168 (lbs.) and at the time Bruce weighed about 145,”
Norris continued as, “The producers of the film looked at us together and said to me ‘you know you two don’t look much different in size, you need to be bigger than Bruce, can we make you bigger?’ I said ‘what do you mean?’ He said ‘can you put on some weight?’ I said ‘well, I don’t know.’ You know by this time I’m intimidated because I’ve never done this before, I’m scared and I said ‘well how much weight do you want me to put on?’ He said ‘well can you put on 20 pounds?’ I said ‘well I’ll try.’”
“So I started eating hamburgers and drinking malt. But I was training every day so I was burning the weight right back off again. I had to literally stop training and just eat. And then of course you know it wasn’t muscle it was more fat than it was muscle (laughs). So I went up to about 180 for that fight scene. That’s why you didn’t see me do any jumping kicks I couldn’t get off the ground.”
“Kickstart, I think, is one of God’s plans for me and for Gina, too,”
“We work with kids who are already going down the wrong path, who already have two strikes against them, inner-city children who have no self start. And our program Kickstart, which means building strong, moral character in our youth through the martial arts, is a way for us to give back.”
Norris is the man that is made for the action movies. He had always acted on badass characters, but in his relationship with his wife, Gena Norris, he is the most lovely man. He showed that side of his when his wife was sick.
They had married in 1998. In the first two years of their marriage, they had welcomed their twins. As he was going with his successful career on acting, with the sickness of his wife, the couple had bad times.
When it was 2013, his wife, Gena, was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Her doctors gave her a substance to create a contrast in the MRI scan. They had stated that it is safe to use, but after a while, she started to feel burn in the parts of her body.
Gena had stated in one of the interviews that she was feeling like she was getting poured by acid.
As she was having that burning sensation occasionally, the pain she had received went up everytime.
After a while, she had lost feelings on some parts of her body. As she stated, she was suffering from a “horrible brain damage”, and couldn’t think clearly, as she has problems in her memory too.
Gena stated that she was believing that she was dying slowly. When she was leaving the bathroom, she saw Chuck was looking at her, and she stated that he knew that she was going to die.
She had stated in a Houston hospital that she was poisoned with the contrast substance that the doctors had gave her for MRI scan, and she wanted them to get the thing they put in her body out.
Chuck Norris had stated that he saw death in his wife’s eyes, as he said, “I saw her dying.”
An alternative medicine from China had save Gena. She was on the hospital with the thought of gadolinium poisoning.
“It was scaring me to death. Nothing’s going on here, she’s dying right in front of me.” Said Chuck in an interview.
As she recovered from her terrible status and health condition, the family had filed a lawsuit that caused her condition.
They had asked for $10 million for the pain and suffering his wife, Gena had received from the bad treatment she had received.
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