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RAW General Manager Kurt Angle Offers Advice
Well, if things don’t work out long-term for RAW General Manager Kurt Angle with the company, it looks like he’d make a good inspirational speaker. Following a live Q & A session on the Olympic Hero’s personal Facebook page, Kurt offered some valuable advice to those dealing with drug addiction:
“Grow up. Abusing drugs is childish. Take responsibility and realize that you can’t live much longer. There is more to life than being high all the time. It’s not easy being clean but if you do it, others will take notice. When you’re clean, you’re never alone. People want to be around you. When you’re high people don’t want to affiliate with a drug addict. Unless they are an addict [too]. Take it one day at a time.”
Past Issues
Last fall, Kurt Angle revealed on The Steve Austin Show that in the past, he struggled with drug addiction. He admitted in 2003, he was offered a painkiller following his broken neck, which occurred during one of his runs with the WWE. Unfortunately for Kurt, that one painkiller turned into eight painkillers, and would need to hide his addiction from WWE Chairman, Vince McMahon. He estimated at one point he was taking 65 Vicodin per day.
On the flip side, Angle reveals that he was advised by his lawyer to go into rehab, but not necessarily because he wanted to get clean and sober. Rather, it was more because he thought it would help his pending DUI case. Perhaps at the time, he didn’t realize that his drug addiction was a problem.
However, during that same Facebook Q & A, RAW General Manager Kurt Angle made further comment about rehab and recovery:
“Remember that being clean and fighting your addiction puts you in an unprecedented class. 10% go on to rehab, Of those 10%, only 5% stay in recovery. That means if you’re staying clean, you’re in that less than 1% that are in recovery. I find it very rewarding that I’m in that class. I’m very proud of it.”
Despite Angle not recognizing it as a problem necessarily, he sure has his priorities straightened out. Since his return to the WWE, he has been able to work alongside some of his greatest friends and in-ring enemies, stepped into the ring with some of the greatest of the current roster, and gotten to be the face of the RAW management. And, let’s not forget, he’s also joined some of the all-time greats in the WWE Hall of Fame.
Good for him, and hopefully, anyone struggling with personal demons finds some encouragement in his words.
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