In the same interview, Roberts also opened up about how he turned to drugs to help get away from his divorce and the pain he was going through in his life at that point.
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The WWE has seen a lot of dark characters but none more so than Jake “The Snake” Roberts. Roberts was a household name in the wrestling industry in the 90s and his in-ring expertise would have helped a lot of budding wrestlers. The Snake was on the DDP Snake Pit Podcast when he talked about transitioning from an in-ring career to a backstage role and how much he had to put up with. According to him, Vince McMahon needing him to wrestle coupled with issues in the writer’s room led to the WWE Hall of Famer going back on the road and thus leading him back to trouble.
Roberts said, “I wasn’t struggling in the beginning, but I didn’t want to work. I just wanted to write. But as Vince does, he gets what he wants, and this guy would get hurt and this guy would miss a show and I would have to go replace him. That was okay. But then he said ‘we need you to on this European trip. We need you back on the road. And games were being played at the office with the writers. There was a lot of jealousy involved. Some didn’t want me there, and some did. And it wasn’t long before I was out of that. That’s a shame because I enjoyed writing. But when I went back on the road full time, I knew I was in trouble.”
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In the same interview, Roberts also opened up about how he turned to drugs to help get away from his divorce and the pain he was going through in his life at that point. He stated, “I can’t go seven days a week. Yet you are throwing me out here. And there were a few guys in the locker room that played some pretty nasty games. You know, putting stuff in my bags. The utensils you might use to do cocaine would be found in my bag. I didn’t put it in there.
“But it wasn’t long before I started using again and as soon as I did, my wife said, ‘we can’t do this again.’ And she divorced me. Once she filed on me, that was it. I left the WWF and I went straight to my cocaine because that was the only thing that took the pain away from me. That was the only thing that made it alright. When I did the coke, I could forget about my wife and my four kids. If I was high enough, I could forget about them. The only problem is when you wake up, you’ve got the same f***ing problems.”
