Seven days later I had lost six pounds and that’s all I needed to start believing that there were possibilities in my life again. Next thing I know, he sent me a package, and I was like, ‘OK, I’ll try this crap,’ and it snuck up on me.
But the bottom line was, I told him I’d do anything he said just to get him off the phone so I could get what I need. “He started telling me about this yoga thing, and I was like bulls. “I can never thank the man enough,” Roberts said. That’s what I was living for, and that’s the only thing I was living on.”īut then one of Roberts’ former wrestling protégés, Diamond Dallas Page, reached out, asking about his deteriorating health, while offering to help introduce The Snake to a new workout Page had developed called DDP Yoga, a program that combines the poses and flexibility of yoga with the muscle building ways of calisthenics. First thing I did every day was get my dope and get my alcohol set up for the day. I had ballooned up to over 300 pounds and was doing drugs and alcohol every single day.
“I was a person who was beat up, gave up, and didn’t want to live,” Roberts told ESPN Playbook. The former WWE superstar made famous for dropping opponents on their heads with his blistering DDT had seen decades of drug and alcohol abuse take a toll on his body to the point where the once-mighty wrestler had given up hope of a better day or way of life. Jake “The Snake” Roberts woke up every morning praying it would be his last. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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