Jake Roberts On Inventing The DDT, Recently Losing His Mother, WWE Hall Of Fame Induction

Source: WNYPapers.com

WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts recently spoke Joshua Maloni of Niagara Frontier Publications to promote his weekend appearance at the Niagara Falls Comic Con. The full interview is at this link. Below are highlights:

How he feels, how things are going right now:

Well, right now I am down. I just buried my mother. … That is an empty spot. I really feel lost, like, “Wait a minute, I can’t pick up the phone and call her.” It still feels weird. It is a hole that has to be filled. I am so grateful that I was able to get sober and clean before she left, because I know she worried about me constantly, and hated the fact that I was going through what I went through. But she was always there for me, man. If I reached out, she was always there, you know?

So, to have cleaned up, and gotten right, I know she was happy with me with that. And she was comfortable. But to go through this process, …

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