Jeff Hardy’s demons are once again in the limelight and Matt Hardy is doing his best to help his little brother.
Matt and Jeff Hardy may be the most known sibling tag team in wrestling history when you factor in their successful high risk offence. With that high risk offence however, comes a lot of pain and recovering. Many wrestlers have had substance abuse issues in the past due to the wear and tear of being a professional wrestler and as Jeff gets older, its clear his body doesn’t heal the way it used to and as such, leads to him self medicating. Hopefully, with the steps taken by AEW, Jeff may finally be able to conquer his demons.
Matt Hardy discussed addiction and mental health on this week’s “Extreme Life of Matt Hardy” podcast. He also opened up about his current issues with his brother Jeff Hardy. Matt claims it started from the time when their mother passed away.
I feel like some of Jeff’s issues probably come from our mother dying when he was so, so young. That was always an issue that he carried with him deeply. I know 100%, the biggest thing that drives me to stay healthy and not have an addiction issue at all, because I’m sure I have an addictive personality, but the thing that keeps me running and stronger than anything else is my family, my children, specifically. I mean, my wife as well. She would whip my ass as everyone knows. Any kind of chemical addiction that I might have, or would have, all that has been traded in for the addiction of my children. That is a real thing that I love. I think about them growing up and I want to cry. There’s a finite amount of time that I’m going to be able to spend with them so I try to maximize and I want to optimize each and every moment I have with them.
My job is to raise these young human beings, three boys and a girl, and shape them and forge them into good productive people that are going to contribute to society. They’re gonna make the world a better place. I mean, I know that’s what my mom wanted for myself and my brother and we were on the right path for the first quarter century of our life for sure.
Once we got into wrestling back in the day, there were times where stuff was kind of thrown on us and we were still really good. We were resilient about things as far as being out of control until we split. That was the first time there were ever really any chemical dependency issues. That’s when Jeff was away from me. He was on the RAW show and he was traveling with two guys who were pretty well known for using recreational drugs at that time. That is when Jeff first got bad and he ended up being released in 2003.
Matt Hardy on The Extreme Life Of Matt Hardy
Time will tell how Jeff will recuperate from this relapse, but here’s hoping that he will be able to conquer his demons once and for all and get to bow out on his terms when it comes to his wrestling career.
h/t to WrestlingNews.co
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