Buff Bagwell has opened up about his struggles with sobriety after being involved in a serious car accident in 2020.
The former WCW World Tag Team Champion has often struggled with keeping away from drugs, alcohol, and addictive substances, and has been working with DDP in recent years.
In 2020, Bagwell was involved in a car accident that resulted in a broken hip, broken ribs, broken left socket, broken nose, and torn groin, among other injuries.
Speaking on The Undisputed Podcast with Bobby Fish, Bagwell spoke about the car accident he was in three years ago. He said,
“My knees still hurt from that car wreck I had two years ago. That’s kind of what led me into my relapse was that car wreck. I got in a car wreck in August of 2020, which is right after the COVID. I thought I’d take this time to get better and then come out of COVID and be ready to roll. Well, it didn’t quite go so great because COVID was a horrible time to be doing anything, especially in the medical world. It was just horrible.
“I was in the hospital for seven weeks and I had 21 knee surgeries in that seven weeks. So every third day, they had surgery on my knee, and out of all that, it came to where it still wasn’t doing good. I got staff and it just kept getting worse and worse. So the actual surgery they did to rebuild my knee didn’t go so good.”
Bagwell said that a series of factors led to him self-medicating and his eventual relapse.
“So, enter Mark Bagwell and enter self-medicating myself because I was just so depressed, and all the stuff that comes with it. You don’t think it does, but it just does with isolation and depression. For the first time in my life, I couldn’t fix it, and that just doesn’t work for Mark Bagwell. I fix it, and I couldn’t fix it.
“So medicating was fixing it for me. I did so, and I knew how to do that pretty good. So I started doing it on a professional level of medication. Dallas Page stepped in and said, ‘Look, bro, you gotta kick out here. Your knees are never gonna get better until we get better.”
In addition to Bagwell, DDP has helped other legends of wrestling including Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts, and the late Scott Hall.
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