WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross looked back on Jeff Hardy’s infamous arrest for drug trafficking in 2009 on the latest Grilling JR.
At the time, Hardy took time off from WWE and was written off of TV so he could get some nagging injuries healed up.
On September 11th, 2009, his home was raided and police found 262 Vicodin prescription pills, 180 Soma prescription pills, 555 milliliters of anabolic steroids, a residual amount of powder cocaine, and drug paraphernalia in his home.
“Yeah, mildly, that it was to that extreme. Didn’t know he was that deep into it, quite honestly. You know, there were a lot of friendly doctors on the road, which was never a good thing all the way back to Dr. Zahorian in the days there where he was allegedly providing drugs to talents, and steroids or growth hormone or whatever the hell they wanted. But these guys on the road, it’s the same old deal. They’re gonna come back and tell you, ‘Hey, we’re on the road all the time, we work hurt.’ In the old days, if you didn’t work you didn’t get paid. That’s not the case [with] these guys. You’ve got a contract now. And if you get injured, you’re gonna get paid.”
“So I always felt bad about it, because I just think that sometimes, he has that dependent personality. And sometimes I don’t think he knows — he’s not steering the car like he would like to, to directing his life. And then I see he gets arrested here a while back, that’s another challenging situation. Somewhere along the way — and I had the same conversation with Jeff. I wanted to send him to rehab. He was too proud, in his own words, to go to rehab. ‘I can’t do it. I just can’t do it.’ So the denial was very very strong, he should have gotten rehab, and I think that fact has been proven here lately. He still has some issues he has to deal with.”
H/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.
