Buff Bagwell had the physique to be a starin WCW. Unfortunately, this era of his life led to a drug habit that will follow him right into a temporary run with WWE and the remainder of his profession. Nonetheless, today Bagwell claims he’s a special person, and in an interview on “INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet,” he said that drugs and alcohol took something from him.
“I consider I used to be at all times a fairly good guy. Matter of fact, Marcus Alexander Bagwell: 1991 was an ideal guy; everyone within the locker room loved Marcus Alexander Bagwell, and I believe through drinking and pills – drinking and drugging – I believe I lost that Marcus,” he admitted.
Very similar to with other pro wrestlers who fell into terrible substance abuse habits, Buff Bagwell’s own struggles with alcohol and medicines got here into play after an injury.
“The time I feel in my head that it really began was once I got my very own prescription bottles, and that will have been 1998 once I broke my neck,” he recalled, maintaining that it was initially as a consequence of legitimate pain and his try to deal together with his neck.
“It stayed pain pills and ‘our concoction’…it was 99% of each wrestler’s concoction, and it was a pain pill mixed with a muscle relaxer. It was the 2 together that was magic to us,” Bagwell said. He and Lex Luger shared the “concoction,” and did their best to cover their addiction.
“We felt like we deserved what we were doing, but then that went away, where we couldn’t control that anymore,” he said, occurring to detail his Herculean drug intake. “It was a case of beer a day, twenty Lortabs, fifteen – without exaggeration – fifteen to twenty Lortabs, and thirty to thirty-five somas day by day of my life.”
Bagwell further claimed that being a bodybuilder made it easy to be a drug addict, while admitting that he was in denial about being a drug addict in hindsight.
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