Chuck Norris: I Know How Bruce Lee Really Died

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Just as it happens with every iconic person who leaves us unexpectedly, many rumors start to surround the event. Chuck Norris addresses this issue and, in an interview, clarifies how Bruce Lee died.

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Chuck Norris Interview

In the interview, Chuck Norris remembers when he was introduced to Bruce Lee. Bruce was already a celebrity because he was involved in the shooting of the "Green Hornet" series.

They were both staying at the same Hotel, the Americana, in New York. They started walking over to the hotel. Bruce was staying on the 7th floor while Chuck was on the 9th.

They took the same elevator and when they arrive at Bruce's floor, they were really getting pretty involved in their conversation. After that conversation in the elevator, they start talking at 11 and, after several hours, Chuck noticed that his watch marked 7 o'clock the next morning.

Working out Together

So, Bruce said "well, when we get back to Los Angeles, why don't we start working out together?" which they later did. When Chuck got back, they started training together, and then, when the series was canceled, Bruce Lee went to Hong Kong to pursue a movie career.

Bruce's move to Hong Kong was a great move for his career because his first movie was the biggest-grossing movie in Asia. Before Bruce went over there was The Sound of Music, he had a gross of 2.4 million dollars which again, was the biggest movie ever grossed in the Orient.

Bruce did the first movie called the Big Boss, which over here was the Fist of Fury, and that one grows 3.2 million which is 800 000 More Than The Sound of Music. Then, he did the Fist of Fury, which over here was called the Chinese Connection, and that one grows 4.3 million dollars.

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Doing a Movie Together

bruce called Chuck and said he'd like to do a movie with a really good fight scene in the movie. At this point, Chuck said, "well, the only way we can have a fight scene is, you know if I get to hit you once in a while".

And Bruce answers, "well yeah, naturally, you know, we'd make it a back-and-forth type fight". So anyway, that fight scene that you saw took them 5 days to do, and in Asia Alone the movie grossed over 11 million dollars. It's the biggest-grossing movie in the history of Asia, and they don't think anything will surpass it for a long time.

Then, Bruce naturally did Enter the Dragon which was his last movie, and it was probably the biggest-grossing movie as far as martial art movies go. But, Bruce's, you know, was 32 years old.

How Bruce Lee really died

When Chuck has to explain something about Bruce's death, he seems to be concerned about the rumors. Rumors are going on about how he passed away. And so forth of a touch of death and drugs, and so forth. Bruce in 1968, well you know, he's pretty heavy in the weightlifting.

As you could tell, he was very well-built. He was lifting weights one night with Kareem Jabar, who was a student of his when he was in Los Angeles, playing at UCLA. And he tried to lift too many, too heavy weights and he ruptured the discs in his back.

He was laid up in the hospital for 3 weeks. In fact, the doctor said that they didn't know if he'd be able to walk again or not. But of course, with a person like Bruce who's got the drive and determination to achieve anything in life, he was up in about a month.

And within three months, he was as strong as he never was. But he had constant back pains from that day on, and he had to take medication to keep the muscles in the back loose and relaxed.

So, What Happened?

So, what happened is that, when he was in Hong Kong preparing for his next movie, he was working with a girl named Betty, who was going to co-star with him. He got a severe headache, so Betty gave him some antibiotics for the headache.

The medication he was taking for his back and the medication he had taken for his headache, reacted with each other and made his brain swell up and creating an aneurysm. And that's actually what happened, so if anyone asked you what happened, you can tell them the true story.

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