On facing alcohol withdrawal symptoms when he and Renee Young had a baby:
“The whole time, it was getting bad and I’m trying to get level. We just had a baby and that’s when I tried to stop, before she even came, and that made it worse.
You can’t be drunk when you’re holding a baby. It was obvious before the baby even got here that I was like, ‘You have to f**king stop drinking.’ It was a lot harder to do than I thought it would be.”
On people noticing something was wrong:
“I didn’t tell anybody. It all happened in like 15 minutes. I could feel the world closing in on me and I think I knew subconsciously that it was coming. I had this one indy show for Sami (Callihan) for Wrestling Revolver. That was the last show I did.
Got through that last indy show and I could feel the world closing in because people were texting me. Eddie (Kingston) texted me, ‘You alright?’ ‘Yeah, why?’ I knew you were talking to people. I was starting to feel like people were noticing, whether they were or not. I knew you were.
I was in Des Moines, a Southwest flight, they don’t serve booze on Southwest flights for some reason. I knew that so I was like, ‘I’m getting loaded before I get on this plane, three hour flight.’
Loaded when I landed, came home, I feel like you were already mad at me, I don’t know, I could feel the entire world closing in on me and I was like, ‘I cannot go another day like this. I can’t go one more day.’ It happened in like minutes. ‘I wanna go.’ ‘Okay.’
Called the place, it was Halloween night, I didn’t tell anybody else. I was standing outside, on the phone with them, giving them my information, kids are walking up to me while I’m on the phone with rehab and they are like ‘Trick or Treat.’ ‘Give me one second, I have to pop a Snickers bar in here.’ Called an Uber, [rehab] was maybe 10-15 minutes away, an hour after I walked in the door (at home), I was walking into rehab. It was over. I was probably in some type of stupor for a minute.”
On his wife Renee telling him about the reaction to his rehab news:
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