During the latest edition of his podcast, Ryback spoke about getting into steroid use, his addiction to GHB and more. Here are the highlights.
On His Addiction to GHB: “A good portion of the guys had their water bottles full of this stuff. And it wasn’t the environment of today, but we would train five days a week and just kill ourselves and go through all of that. And on the weekends and shows, and just, yeah, decompress, have fun, do whatever the f–k we want, drink, and do this GHB, which, eventually, I would do it every day. It became a very regular part of my life, where, for me, it was kind of the first thing I really, truly got addicted to down there. And the training was hard and whatnot and I could sit there and say, oh, I can make up any excuse I want that I did it because of that, but I got addicted to it. I would do it after practice and everyone, and this was, again, across the board, a lot of people [would do that] and I would take a nap after practice, get up, eat, take another cap because if you do just a little, it would give you energy. Such a weird drug. And then, I would go work out for three hours. Yeah, and then, get home and do a bunch and eventually pass out and sleep. The GHB would make me sleepwalk where I would take it at night, like, you’re in such a deep sleep, but I would have to piss or something. And having sleep apnea, it’s such a dangerous combination at the time, but I would wake up in my sleep and go to the bathroom. There were nights where I would wake up in the morning and I’d pissed on the shower curtain.” Ryback said, “I remember some mornings, my shower curtain would be ripped off the wall and the bathroom would be a mess.”
On Doing Khali Duty: “Great Khali came to Deep South and I was the first one they assigned to ‘Khali duty’, they called it, where you would have to go pick him up and bring him to a store, like, whatever [Khali needed]. Like, I had to set up his AOL account, like call AOL. There was one particular incident with the GHB. I had to pick him up in the morning to take him to the grocery store. And it was supposed to be like he wanted to go early in the morning.” Ryback recalled, “I wake up late. I had many missed calls from The Great Khali that morning. It was like a Sunday morning and Saturday night, [we were] out. I woke up in my bed and I felt like I had died, like a whole other level. And, again, probably for the second or third time in my life, I should have been dead. And I’m sitting there, lying in bed, and I sit up, and I smell, like, the most horrid smell that you could ever imagine smelling. And I’m like, ‘what the f–k?’ and everything was blurry and I look. My room is destroyed. My bedroom looked like it got hit by a s–t tornado. And when I say a ‘s–t tornado’, I mean piles of s–t. Piles! Not one pile of s–t, multiple piles of s–t and puke all on the floors in my bedroom. Piss all over the walls. The bathroom, completely destroyed.”
