Paul teutul sr health problems
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HAS Paul Teutul Senior of American Chopper has died?
#1Postby Mitsuru » Sun Jun 12, 2011 10:22 pm
Complications worsened over the days that he was admitted to the Orange County Hospital.
He certainly was a character, and fun to watch.
RIP big man you will be missed
EDITED 1:38PM UK TIME
There is now some debat about what I have posted above so hense the slight amendment to the thread title.
If he hasn't passed on I am sorry to have started this thread after being informed on a different forum.
I will also state this if Mr Paul Teutul Sr has not passed on, I regrate having caused any upset regrding this thread.
The Untold Truth Of American Chopper Star Paul Teutul Sr.
ByBarbara PavoneandGene Kosowan
The following article includes references to addiction.
Paul Teutul Sr. spent an entire decade in people's homes as the star of Discovery Channel's "American Chopper" reality series, which brought the world of Orange County Choppers to the small screen from 2002 until 2012. When the series concluded, he moved to CMT with a short-lived reboot show called "Orange County Choppers" — and in 2018, after a highly controversial hiatus, he was back on Discovery as part of the "American Chopper" rebooted series.
Originally inspired to enter the biker world by iconic films such as 1969's "Easy Rider" and 1953's "The Wild One," Teutul founded Orange County Choppers in 1999 and rose to fame by designing and building custom motorcycles with his sons, Paul Teutul Jr. and Mikey Teutul. Their father-son relationships were always dramatic, but those family ties seemed to worsen as their fame and fortunes increased. Though the show made Senior a household name, it also landed him in a lot of hot water with the courts, and though he made it back on the air for a time, this chop shop paterfamilias still has a lot on the line.
From addiction to family feuds and a slew of lawsuits, here's the untold truth of Paul Teutul Sr.
Paul Teutul Sr. 'chose to die' but was saved by a promise
"On January 7, 1985, I decided that I'd either have to sober up, or die. I chose to die." That was the startling confession Paul Teutul Sr. made in his 2009 motivational memoir, "The Ride of a Lifetime: Doing Business the Orange County Choppers Way" (via Today). He was just 35 at the time and after two decades of drinking, his body "was literally falling apart. I was coughing up blood," he wrote. "On the weekends, I would wake up and not know where I was or how I'd gotten there."
Teutul was eventually saved by a promise to his wife to get sober.
‘American Chopper’ star sobers up, starts over
The star of the hit TLC show “American Chopper” and founder of his own family business, Paul Teutul Sr. shares advice about running a business in his book, “The Ride of a Lifetime.” Teutul founded Orange County Choppers in 1999, and grew his hobby into a 70-plus-person operation that produces and sells 150 custom bikes a year. In this excerpt, he writes about battling alcoholism and finding the clarity of mind to develop his company.
Sobering up
I remember the day exactly. It was January 7, 1985 — 11 years after going into business together. Twenty years of hard drinking and partying since the age of 15 had finally caught up with me. My body was literally falling apart. I was coughing up blood. Over the years, I had wrecked a dozen or more cars. On the weekends, I would wake up and not know where I was or how I'd gotten there.
So on January 7, 1985, I decided that I'd either have to sober up, or die. I chose to die. I told my wife, Paula, who had been through so much with me and should be nominated for sainthood, that as much as I would like to get sober, I couldn't. So my only choice was to die.
Somehow, she talked me into going into rehab, something I thought I'd never do. But I wanted to have one last good drunk. So the day before I was set to go into rehab, I got totally plastered. I drank a half-gallon of wine, a pint of brandy, and I took six Valiums. I woke up the next morning completely hung over. I had promised my wife that I would go, but I just couldn't. And you want to know why I couldn't do it? Because I couldn't leave my business. I thought that if I went into rehab that I'd lose everything I'd accomplished up to that point: my business, my customers, my reputation. In my mind, if I went away for 30 days, I thought it would all go away and I'd have to start all over again.
You also have to remember that throughout all my years of drinking and doing drugs, I went to work no matter what: bro
Here's What Happened To Paul Teutul Sr From American Chopper
When "American Chopper" debuted in 2002, it became a hit as much for the relationships between the members of the Teutul family — Paul Sr., Paul Jr., and Mikey — as it did for the work they did on custom-built motorcycles. The original series ran for 200-plus episodes (and countless arguments), spawning numerous memes, and leading to several spinoffs and revivals over the years.
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There could have been no "American Chopper" without Paul Teutul Sr., who founded Orange County Choppers in 1999. His frequently volatile relationship with his son and namesake led to the departure of Paul Jr. from "American Chopper" and ultimately the creation of the short-lived series "Senior vs. Junior" in 2010. Paul Sr. returned to television in 2013 with "Orange County Choppers," but that series only aired eight episodes before it was canceled. Paul Sr. continued operating the company after the show was dropped, but in 2017, his business partner Thomas Derbyshire sued Teutul, claiming Teutul was using his investments for personal purposes.
Paul Teutul Sr. moved Orange County Choppers' operations to Florida in March 2020, a few months before the final episode of "American Chopper" aired. In that episode, titled "The Last Ride," Paul Sr. and his son Paul Jr. were back to their old bickering ways, nearly jeopardizing the featured build project. It's but one rocky moment in Paul Sr.'s life since "American Chopper" became an instant hit, but he recently claimed to be making a YouTube comeback with the help of old friend and fellow reality TV star Jesse James. Last year, James and Paul Sr. were rumored to be joining forces with Billy Lane from Choppers, Inc. and the Pickett Brothers from Pickett Custom Trucks in Buckeye, Arizona to form Outlaw TV, a member-supported YouTube streaming channel. That project doesn't appear to have amounted to anything, although Paul Sr. maintains an active YouTube presence and is st