In 2003, a tiger mauled Roy Horn on a Vegas stage, seriously injuring the entertainer and bringing to an end the famous Siegfried & Roy show in Vegas. Now, one of the animal handlers who worked with the duo back then tells the Hollywood Reporter that they have lied about what happened on stage. The official story from Horn and partner Siegfried Fischbacher is that Horn suffered a stroke during the act and that the 400-pound tiger lunged at him out of instinct because it was trying to help. Nope, says Lawrence. Horn had the stroke after the tiger pounced. What’s more, he blames Horn’s own behavior, both on the stage that night and prior, for the attack. Horn, he says, had become less and less hands-on with the animals in the years preceding the attack. The bonding was gone.
“Many of the handlers thought that Roy was treating the cats more like props than he was respecting them for who they were,” he says. “I am positive that Roy’s diminishing relationship with Mantacore was a key factor in the attack.” On the night of the mauling, Lawrence says Horn made a mistake when the tiger first began misbehaving. “What Roy did was, instead of walking Mantacore in a circle, as is usually done, he just used his arm to steer him right back into his body, in a pirouette motion,” he says. “Mantacore’s face was right in [Horn’s] midsection. By Roy not following the correct procedure, it fed into confusion and rebellion.”
One of the great mysteries of the Universe has been solved!
Now I can die in Peace.
izlamo delenda est …
I don’t think the tiger was involved. Either Roy forgot the ‘safe word’ or Siegfried ignored him.
I saw S & R’s show many years ago. But when it came to professional handling of big cats, they couldn’t hold a candle to Gunther Gebel-Williams IMO.
“By Roy not following the correct procedure, it fed into confusion and rebellion.”
…Change “Roy” to “Trump” and it sounds like a CNN description of the way the Democrats responded to President Trump’s 2016 victory…
Narcissists can get away with taking people for granted. It’s a little bit harder to take a tiger for granted.
“Many of the handlers thought that Roy was treating the cats more like props than he was respecting them for who they were,”
sounds like democrat politics to me
hope we find out, if so
I always thought it was because the tiger decided it needed more fruit in its diet.
venturaguy for the win! LOL!
I think it was the AIDS bug that bit him, not the tiger. That tiger is now dead, so we can connect dots.
How do you turn a fruit into a vegetable?
Put him on stage with tigers!
Wow, so glad to hear this exciting conclusion..yawn.., to this story.. I’m sure the real back story was that someone wearing a MAGA hat, attacked him, put a noose around his necked and forced him to put his head, inside a ‘white tiger’s mouth”.., Trumps fault..
Never trust a pussy bigger than your face.
I confess, it was a rape attempt. I simply defended myself.
I think it was Roys time in the barrel…
That tiger reminds me of myself when I’m around adolescent girls
Leave tigers in the wild.
Maybe American blacks will repeat the tiger’s act against their democrat party abusers.
Tiger tore him a new asshole. I shudder to think what he’s been doing with it.
Tigers are apex predators.
Humans are a bit lower on the food chain…
As I recall, that was a WHITE tiger. That explains it.