Wardy loved this photo of himself, Alegria told me.
One of them wanted to argue with me over who was his real girlfriend and I was like, 'I don't think that matters at this point, ma'am.'" "Two of them were crying, very devastated. "I had to call these women, and let them know that he had passed and that I would be setting up arrangements," she recalled. That's when she saw multiple text messages from different women, all wishing him good morning and wondering why he hadn't texted them back. When she arrived home from the hospital, she grabbed Wardy's phone so she could begin the painful endeavor of alerting his friends and family that he'd died. That wouldn't be the only shock she got that day. However, his heart had become enlarged, and "blew up on him," she explained. According to Alegria, Wardy was "healthy as a horse," shied away from drugs (though he had, at points, dabbled in steroids, she told me), only drank beer, and was a healthy eater. Wardy was just 45 years old when he died of a heart attack on December 11, 2016. We talked every day," Joubert told me over the phone. We talked about it because we were very close. She called me and said, 'Oh my god, you've got to look at this.' And I called him up about it. But as it turned out, Karen Joubert already knew. More than anything, with the recent resurfacing of the photo in the meme universe, Alegria worried about his family finding out about Wardy's side job. He confessed to all of this when Alegria confronted him-but she was understanding.
He was going through a contentious break-up at the time that, according to Alegria and his stepmom, put his house in Bernal Heights-the house passed down from his grandparents, to his mother, to him, and that he hoped to leave his two children someday-in jeopardy. It was at one of these parties that someone approached Wardy about doing pornographic videos to make extra cash. Wardy's lifestyle at the time included hanging out at sex clubs and parties in San Francisco, where he was a "bull," a dom who would have consensual sex with women in front of their partners, cuckolding the men. He found that I was not a judgmental person… I never wanted him to feel ashamed. "It actually made us learn a lot more about each other and be a lot more open. It didn't tarnish any of our relationship," said Alegria. "I started to learn a lot more about Wardy after that photograph. "That was one thing he was proud of! That's all him," she said.
As for that massive… endowment shared widely in the prank? Despite some evidence and internet claims that his penis is heavily Photoshopped, Alegria assured it's only slightly altered. "That's how I found out about the photograph originally, and how I even found out about the lifestyle that Wardy was into previously," she said. The acquaintance pulled up the now-infamous photo-the very same one currently being widely circulated in those fake coronavirus alerts-leaving Alegria stunned, but also amused. That's a meme,'" Alegria, who dated Wardy for three years, recalled. When the acquaintance asked if that was her boyfriend, Alegria told her it was. Heather first found out about Wardy's porn career when an acquaintance came over to their then-shared home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood and saw a photo of the couple. Armed with this new wealth of information, I was able to find more about Wardy online, and to connect with his loved ones. People mentioned his bear hugs and infectious laugh, and promised to keep unauthorized bottles and beverage containers out of the Foundry, the San Francisco event space he worked at as a bouncer, in his honor. The comments on the GoFundMe page-which raised $10,555 for his funeral services-were sweet and funny, painting the picture of a big lug beloved by many. He shared his real name, his Facebook page, and the GoFundMe page set up by his girlfriend to help his family pay for his funeral. An email came in with the subject line "The guy in the photo prank." It was from someone who claimed to have known Wood, aka Wardy. This is the untold story of Wood, or, rather, Wardy Joubert III.Īfter days of Googling and following leads that went nowhere, I got a break. So I set off to find out even more about who he was as a person beyond his large penis and meme infamy, and I did. I'd hate to think that one day, when I'm gone, the only thing people might know about me is that I once fell on a cactus while drunk off Bud Light. It seemed unfair to tie a bow on a person's legacy based on just two things from his years on earth. All I really knew about this man was that he had done a jerk-off video at some point in his life, and that he had died.