New York- Pro-wrestling amazon Nicole Bass sent her hubby to the corner – cowering in fear – Sunday after going on a boozy bender and beating him up, then biting the hand of a cop who came to his rescue, police and the husband said.
“She started to hit me. I was afraid,” her husband, Robert Fuchs, told The Post from the pair’s Maspeth, Queens, home Sunday night. “I said, ‘Please.’ I’m 57, I’ve had three heart attacks, I can’t afford this.
“I was afraid for myself. There’s no way I could touch her. She’s 230 [pounds], 6 [foot] 2, she knows how to box, she’s a southpaw, and she’s a pro wrestler. There’s no way I could go near her. She’d kill me.”
Fuchs said his nightmare began after his feisty, 40-year-old wife – who suffers from severe pancreatitis- had trouble filling her prescription for the painkiller Oxycontin.
Doubled over in pain, she began drinking heavily Thursday, he said.
“She was drinking half a gallon of vodka a day,” Fuchs said.
His beefy bodybuilder wife – a frequent guest on shock jock Howard Stern’s radio show – finally hit rock bottom yesterday afternoon, threatening to “take a bunch of pills” and “slit her wrists,” he said.
“Of course, she would never do [either],” Fuchs said.
“She’s a sweetheart. She wouldn’t hurt anybody. But when on alcohol . . . ”
Fuchs said he was so worried about his wife that he made a move to call the cops, and that’s when she attacked him.
“She actually punched me a few times. She threw about four shots into my chest,” he said.
He said he finally managed to call 911, and that when police arrived, “she was sweet as a lamb.” Fuchs said his wife accidentally chomped down on one officer’s hand as she fell on the stairs and he reached to help her. Fuchs noted that she was not charged for that.
But police sources said Bass was emotionally distraught when they arrived and bit the hand of an officer, who was wearing leather gloves at the time. He wasn’t injured.
Bass was taken to Elmhurst Hospital’s psychiatric unit, where she will be for 72 hours, Fuchs said.
It was the second time Bass – who bills herself as “the largest woman bodybuilder in the world” – has sunk her teeth into a police officer.
She pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after biting the thumb of a cop at the San Gennaro feast in 2000.