Kurt Angle was within the professional wrestling enterprise for round 20 years earlier than retiring in 2017. Throughout that point—most of which was spent with WWE or TNA (now Impression Wrestling)—Angle captured 12 world titles and a slew of accidents: damaged necks, busted knees, and concussions, to call a couple of.
Earlier than that, he received an Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling in 1996. He’s additionally an actor, model ambassador (Küribl Lively), and enterprise proprietor (Bodily Match).
I’ve all the time been a fan of his work, particularly within the ring—the man was extremely sturdy and athletic. However his candor throughout our dialog about issues like his opiate habit, the explanations he did a 180-degree activate the usage of THC and CBD, struggling to seek out his place in life after retiring from WWE, and the way despair was a nagging anchor that hindered the trail to discovering happiness have been an eye-opener.
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You too can check out some highlights from Kurt’s M&F Reps interview beneath:
Highlights from Kurt Angle on M&F Reps …
Changing into hooked on opiates and taking 65 Vicodin per day …
“The second time I broke my neck, in 2003, I used to be launched to painkillers. These issues made me really feel energetic. They masked the ache. I couldn’t really feel a ache in my neck, any ache in my physique. And the loopy factor is, you are taking one for some time and your physique builds a tolerance. Then it’s important to take two and that results in 4, and earlier than I knew it, inside six months, I used to be taking 65 further energy Vicodin a day. My life spiraled uncontrolled. I used to be in serious trouble.”
Despair …
“I used to be depressed for some time, retired from newbie wrestling, from the Olympics, after which retiring from WWE. I felt like I didn’t have a spot in life anymore. And I felt misplaced. And don’t get me mistaken, I really like spending time with my spouse and children. However from a profession standpoint, I believed what might I do subsequent?”
Discovering happiness after retirement …
“Sadly, the pandemic occurred proper after I retired. … And the entire world stood nonetheless for an extended time frame. And I’m simply popping out of it proper now. I had plenty of despair, and it set me again for slightly bit. However I spotted now that there are different issues in life that I can take pleasure in … issues I by no means did earlier than as a result of my complete whole life it was all the time about Kurt Angle. … And it’s simply actually unhappy that you simply get to that time, you notice that you’re a egocentric son of a gun.”
Refusing to give up …
“I’m so pleased with the accomplishments I’ve made in my life—profitable the Olympic gold medal, profitable 12 world titles, doing the films I did, every thing like that. However what I’m most pleased with are the ruts that I pulled myself out of. It made me really feel like I used to be a fighter, not a quitter.”
