Kemo
04-26-2017, 06:43 PM
Jeff Hardy appeared on episode 346 of The Art Of Wrestling to talk about his career and more. Here are some of the highlights.
WWE’s scheduled ultimately led to his addiction problems:
“It was the schedule, definitely, with the WWE because if you’re on RAW back in, I don’t know, ’06, ’07, ’08, ’09, something like that, and if you’re on RAW, you’re basically gone Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, come home Tuesday, and Wednesday and Thursday are your weekends, basically. Do it all again. Then, you’ve got the long haul of the tours, the overseas tours can last up to two weeks or whatever, but I think, overall, because I have these other outlets as far as, like when I see something I want to paint, I’ve got to go get a canvas and do it. If I have this song in my head, I’ve got to record it, get a demo down or something. And motocross was huge for me too, and, like, building tracks because I love that s–t so much. I never had time for that there [in WWE], and oh my gosh, I think that just drove me over [the edge], especially with the opioid addiction with the Vicodin and the Somas, man, because it became something bigger than me and I was going, I knew deep down, ‘man, I can’t live my life like this and depend on this pill, like, everyday to get this feeling.’ And I knew better.”
His match with Sting in 2011 at Victory Road:
“2011, with Sting, I was taking Somas and I went out there f–ked up, and, man, I couldn’t even wrestle. For the first time in my life, I went too far. I couldn’t wrestle my idol, basically, Sting, and he had to do the right thing and shut me down and pin me. That deal with Sting, man, honestly, was the best thing that ever could have happened to me to straighten my ass up.”
WWE’s scheduled ultimately led to his addiction problems:
“It was the schedule, definitely, with the WWE because if you’re on RAW back in, I don’t know, ’06, ’07, ’08, ’09, something like that, and if you’re on RAW, you’re basically gone Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, come home Tuesday, and Wednesday and Thursday are your weekends, basically. Do it all again. Then, you’ve got the long haul of the tours, the overseas tours can last up to two weeks or whatever, but I think, overall, because I have these other outlets as far as, like when I see something I want to paint, I’ve got to go get a canvas and do it. If I have this song in my head, I’ve got to record it, get a demo down or something. And motocross was huge for me too, and, like, building tracks because I love that s–t so much. I never had time for that there [in WWE], and oh my gosh, I think that just drove me over [the edge], especially with the opioid addiction with the Vicodin and the Somas, man, because it became something bigger than me and I was going, I knew deep down, ‘man, I can’t live my life like this and depend on this pill, like, everyday to get this feeling.’ And I knew better.”
His match with Sting in 2011 at Victory Road:
“2011, with Sting, I was taking Somas and I went out there f–ked up, and, man, I couldn’t even wrestle. For the first time in my life, I went too far. I couldn’t wrestle my idol, basically, Sting, and he had to do the right thing and shut me down and pin me. That deal with Sting, man, honestly, was the best thing that ever could have happened to me to straighten my ass up.”