Bret Hart was a guest last night on Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren.

Pro Wrestling Torch reports that Hart said he knew Benoit as a fan of pro wrestling when he was just 10-12 years old attending matches. He said his father brought him back to meet he and some other wrestlers. He said he was a kid who was obsessed with wrestling and wanted to meet his hero, the Dynamite Kid. He said he knew from a very early age Chris would become a wrestler.

"He was great. He was one of the best," he said. "He was a guy who was loved by everybody in the dressing room. Even the really tough guys in the dressing room respected Chris Benoit. he was a guy who reached down and helped the young guys starting out. He had a lot of respect for the guys who worked really hard. In the dressing room, he would have been a leader who really hard and set the example for everyone else.

Everyone in the wrestling business is reeling from this. Nobody would have expected this to come from Chris Benoit. He was an easy-going lovable guy. I don't remember him being moody or bad-tempered or violent in any way at all. He was a guy who was a very caring, supportive guy. He supported me in a lot of situations. It's a shock to everybody."

Greta asked about Bret's talks with Benoit's living kids from the previous marriage: "Well, they're hanging in there. They're a tough family and a strong family. I don't think anyone saw this coming. They're as confused by this as everyone else. He's trying to stay strong. I already spoke to Chris's sister. They devastated by it, but they'll get through it."

Greta asked if Chris used steroids: "I'm sure he used them through his career. I never saw him personally take them. My understanding, and I have no reason to blur the truth, I think when Eddie Guerrero died a year and a half ago, WWE put in a really strict drug testing policy and they've been trying to stamp out steroids. I know from talking to other wrestlers, a lot of them were really careful not to have anything in their system. It seemed to be a real serious test.

So I'm of the conviction at this point that steroids, if they were in his house, they were for something he had stockpiled or was planning on using. If they tested him a few months ago and he was clean, I suspect that he was obliging the tests and following the rules."

Greta asked if there was something wrong with Daniel: "I never knew of anything to be wrong with him at all. I was real surprised to hear he had autism and this stuff about him being a dwarf. I never saw him as a dwarf and I never heard Chris ever mention it to me." Greta asked if he saw the child and thought he looked small. Bret said: "He may have looked a little small, but Chris looked a little small, too. Chris was not the biggest guy in the world, either. I wouldn't have noticed it enough to make a fair assessment of that."