WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross recently did an interview with The A.V. Club, where he was asked about his autobiography, Slobberknocker: My Life In Wrestling. During the interview, Ross was asked if there’s anything in the book that Ross was surprised he included, to which “Good Ole’ JR” responded that he was surprised he opened up about his past drug addiction. Check out what he had to say here:
His drug addiction:
“You’re going to hear about my addiction to drugs. I was addicted to Ambien and Xanax, together, with Crown Royal. I was on Uranus, and Pluto, and Neptune, and everywhere else late at night. [Because] I had severe sleep apnea – and still do – I stopped breathing 99 times in an hour in a sleep test. So I wasn’t in real great shape with that deal.”
How he broke his addiction:
“Ambien is a temporary medication for insomnia. Temporary. Not ten years. …It’s not a [revolutionary] story, it’s eye-opening, and shows it can happen to anybody. It was like smoking, I just decided one day to quit smoking, and stopped. Done, I’m done.”
H/T Wrestling Inc. for the transcriptions
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