Jeff Hardy was recently a guest on Corey Graves’ podcast, After The Bell. During the podcast, Jeff opened up about his various substance abuse issues over the years.
Specifically, Jeff spoke about his latest arrest from back in October, where he was arrested for driving while impaired (DWI). Here is what he said (h/t to Wrestlezone for the quote below):
“But yeah, I’m just going to get this out of the way, after that first DUI I got, man, I think I was doing Lilian Garcia’s podcast and I said, ‘I got my first and last DUI.’ And I was so sure of that in my moment and I think I even went on to say like, ‘I’ll never get arrested again,’ and I remembered when I said that, I said, ‘I probably shouldn’t have said that.’ And now, being that I’ve been to rehab, inpatient rehab for the first time in my life, I’ve learned a lot about the disease known as alcoholism and addiction cause I went through the drugs back when I got arrested and even watching SmackDown last week, when they aired the mugshots and stuff, that’s some heavy stuff, but it’s gonna be good shit because this is my last chance to get it right and I want to just get a few more good years out of this body and do the best I possibly can but yeah, it was weird man. So now I still have the legal situation, the black cloud that’s hanging over me, I haven’t been convicted.”
Jeff also said that he called WWE before his latest arrest and told the company that he needed help and there is something wrong with him:
“When I got pulled over October 3 of 2019, the day before I called WWE and said ‘I need help. I need treatment. There’s something wrong with me, like with this alcohol thing,’ but yeah I’ve learned so much in recovery, just little things like one day at a time man, just focus on today, not drinking or not drugging and it’s just calling my sponsor everyday and talking to another alcoholic man. There’s something powerful about it when you admit what you are and you can like own that and just man, and there’s a huge piece in my heart and my mind knowing that if I never drink again I’m never going to get into any other trouble. Jeff Hardy + no drinking = no trouble cause all my troubles came from either drugs or alcohol. And like with the alcohol, I can’t drink like other people and I’ve surrendered and I’ve just manned up to that, you know and there’s nothing wrong with it.”
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