Eddie Kingston continues to be an advocate for mental health.
Eddie Kingston has had a rough go of it. He has gone through immense struggles in his life and has never been shy about what he goes through in terms of mental struggles. Kingston would detail these struggles while speaking to ABC News:
“We’ve lost enough people that, you know, I mean, in our personal lives, you know, away from wrestling, and a lot of us have lost people in wrestling we knew. And it’s because no one talks,”
“And everybody has this stigma that they had to be tough and rough. And, you know what I mean; I can’t let nobody see my weakness. So I can’t then talk to people, you know, so you hold everything in. Then you find different ways of coping. For me, it was drinking a lot. Yeah, I mean, and I know, whatever it was, it was pills and everything like that.”
Eddie Kingston to ABC News
Eddie Kingston clearly is a huge advocate for mental health and continues to smash down doors to destigmatize mental health issues. Hopefully this leads to more wrestlers being more open.
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