That's kinda the way I herd it too. Paul started with percs to help with the pain or training. It all went down hill after that. Oxy's than dope. He tried to get away from it and went to Vegas to train with Trevor Smith. After a few month it was back to Boston only now he was installing carpets. Sad. From the Olympic stage to a down and out junkie. I herd the hot bag too. He was a collector, but when the bills got too high, he paid with his life.
partially true. he started training with trevor(rip) when trevor still lived in marina del rey. i know, because i was at trevs house when zilla got there the first day.
trev was very sincere in resurrecting zilla's career. but what was zilla up to? trying to call everyone in the book for 'bain, percs, oxys, etc. this is not to speak ill of the dead, just the facts.
so, when trev took him to vegas, under the auspecies of repping nuclear nutrition, paul left the booth and went around trying to get the other, older, bigger more established companies to pick him up (again). this, on trevors dime.
you just have to realize- drug addicts come in all flavors. some, just happen to be (gasp) ...bodybuilders.