AEW/ROH star Dustin Rhodes appeared on the Unbreakable podcast to discuss a number of topics, including his sobriety.
Rhodes said, “I’m on the other side, with 16 years clean and sober, and that’s amazing to me to say that.”
On his past struggles with addiction:
“Pretty soon, you know, my world is a mess: I’ve gained weight, I don’t think I have any problems, and I am 60 pills in a day, half a gallon of vodka a day, an eight ball every three days — of cocaine — and it was just a mess and I didn’t give a s**t about anything, anybody, nothing — I didn’t give a s**t about life; I tried to kill myself twice.”
On what he feels saved him:
“There were very rough, sad, moments and days, and I think what did it to me was divine intervention, and the third day after taking, you know, Vicodins, Xanax, coke, alcohol, everything — I woke up at two in the morning.”
On the WWE Wellness program rehab:
“I got in there and I woke up eight days later — I had eight days of detox — and then like after two weeks I started seeing things for the first time clear. I never wanted to go back there, but it did get me where I needed to be to go out and use the tools that were available.”
You can check out the complete podcast below.
