Kurt Angle Blogs On Addiction, Leaving WWE For Feeling Like A Liability, His Condition In TNA

Source: KurtAngleBrand.com

As noted, Kurt Angle was recently interviewed by Dan Le Batard, where Angle discussed his past addictions to painkillers and alcohol. He claimed to have been taking 65 Vicodin a day at one point, and noted that he got four DUIs in five years.

Angle blogged on his past addictions at KurtAngleBrand.com and wrote about the tragedies that he faced while growing up. He stated that after he broke his neck at the U.S. open, he would have 12 shots of Novocain injected into his neck before each match during the Olympic trials and the Olympic Games themselves. He said that the real beginning of his “dark journey” was after breaking his neck in WWE in 2003. He wrote:

In 1999, I signed with WWE, and by the end of that year I was on WWE television and doing incredibly well. I had found my new love, professional wrestling. But it was almost taken away from me, AGAIN, when I broke my neck again in …

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