Could drug abuse and alcoholism have anything to do with it?
Being on the sauce throughout the entire year, traveling over 200 days a year, performing twice a week, lifting weights, constantly eating out, drinking, drug abuse, depression from being away from your loved ones.
Can't tell me that's healthy..
Absolutely. People don't realize what these guys put themselves thru, on a daily basis.
There's NO offseason in wrestling, so these guys are on the road 300+ days a year. People think what they do is fake, but a I guess a good way to describe it is- stunt men who perform within storylines. These guys are for all intents and purposes, involved in car-crashes, every other day, so they HAVE to partake in painkillers to get thru their daily routines. Of course, habit develops, then add your anabolics, and party drugs, and it's an awful bad mix.
I'll tell ya, it takes a certain type of person to do what they do.........