Former WWE/TNA star Kurt Angle was on The Dan Le Batard Show on Friday afternoon. His substance abuse issues have been well documented but I don’t think we knew just how bad his issues really were. His issues started when he competed with a broken neck in the Olympics but things escalated over the years when he was on the road on WWE’s grueling schedule.
Angle revealed that he was taking 65 Vicodin a day at one point. He said, “I was on a lot. There was no way I couldn’t get out of it. The only thing I could do was eventually go to rehab and try to fix my life again but I actually beat it on my own. I stayed in my house for about 10 days and didn’t leave, and I was able to get through the withdrawal effects and then I was put on another medication after that — a lower dose and then because I broke my neck multiple times, I went on Xanax too because I was always getting nervous. I was really having a lot of stress.”
Angle said that he left WWE in 2006 because he couldn’t get a part-time deal with them. He joined TNA just a few months later and that’s when he started drinking because a lot of the guys there drink. He said, “I started drinking with my meds. Then I started manipulating my meds. I would save all of them for the evening and drink it with alcohol and it got me in a lot of trouble.” Angle was slapped with 4 DUI’s in 5 years during his time in TNA.
He said that that he finally went to WWE-sponsored rehab after his DUI’s and he spent 30 days there and he’s been clean and sober for over 3 years.
Angle is currently wrestling a very limited schedule since leaving TNA in January of this year and there has been talk of him returning to WWE next year. We’re glad to see that Angle is clean and sober and hopefully a WWE Hall Of Fame induction is not too far away. Check out the clip below:
