{"id":76644,"date":"2020-07-24T11:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=76644"},"modified":"2020-07-24T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:51:30","slug":"perkins-blog-examining-the-jeff-hardy-addiction-storyline-from-the-perspective-of-an-addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2020\/07\/24\/perkins-blog-examining-the-jeff-hardy-addiction-storyline-from-the-perspective-of-an-addict\/","title":{"rendered":"Perkins&#8217; Blog: Examining the Jeff Hardy addiction storyline from the perspective of an addict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-2387362006\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong>By Nick Perkins<\/strong>, ProWrestling.net Staffer (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternRebel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WesternRebel<\/a>)<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve written anything. I\u2019d like to say that I\u2019ve been busy or that my \u201creal job\u201d has taken the majority of my time lately. This is true to an extent; I work at a hospital and most of us are working 12-hour-plus shifts because if we don\u2019t, nobody does. But, to be completely honest, I just haven\u2019t been in the mood to watch, much less write about wrestling, all summer. The world around us is burning and we\u2019re all just trying to survive. Some of us don\u2019t, and that has been what\u2019s been taking up the majority of my headspace.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, I just haven\u2019t cared about wrestling. I\u2019ll tune in occasionally to a Raw or a Dynamite or an NXT show, but I find myself hitting the fast forward button more and more. I can get through about six hours of weekly wrestling in one. It\u2019s not that the content is necessarily bad (but a lot of it is). It\u2019s just that it no longer feels as important to me, that\u2019s all. I haven\u2019t cared enough to really sit down and try to enjoy wrestling. Of course, it doesn\u2019t help when various scandals are rocking the industry that I love. I don\u2019t have a whole lot of extra room in my life for added negativity, and negativity seems to be plaguing professional wrestling these days.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why, in my first article in a couple months, I want to focus on something negative. I know, I know. I\u2019m a hypocrite. But out of all the wrestling happening currently, the one story I actually keep thinking about is the one involving Jeff Hardy.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have missed it (and ratings suggest that\u2019s a lot of you), WWE is running an angle focusing on Jeff Hardy\u2019s battle with alcoholism\/addiction. This comes complete with DUI allegations (of which Jeff is no stranger to), piss tests, and police involvement. Even if professional wrestling didn\u2019t have an utterly terrible track record of presenting these types of stories (see: Road Warrior Hawk in WWE or Scott Hall in WCW), this would still be an ill-advised angle to run, simply because Jeff Hardy is currently still in the midst of battling his proverbial demons. He hasn\u2019t defeated them yet, addicts never do, but I\u2019m not even sure he\u2019s putting up much of a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Now, that\u2019s not a fair statement to make and I know it. I don\u2019t know Jeff Hardy from Jeff Harvey and I certainly don\u2019t know what he\u2019s been going through during this dumpster fire of a year we call 2020. I also don\u2019t fault Jeff Hardy. I\u2019m not mad at him; I\u2019m mad at the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Addiction is a funny thing. Some people call it a prison; others call it a battle. Others, still, call it a disease &#8211; a second cousin to cancer, if you will. The truth is, it\u2019s all of those things and none of those things and more. And less. Addiction means different things to different people and nobody\u2019s journey is the same.<\/p>\n<p>What addiction looks like to me is a mother who died from cirrhosis of the liver on the day of my senior prom, because she just couldn\u2019t stop reaching for the bottle and was too proud to reach for a hand. Addiction looks like a young boy, soon to be a man, who pledges that he will never drink because of what happened to his mom. But then, three years later, he found himself going down the exact same road. It was on that road of self-destruction that the boy acquired three DUI\u2019s, the fourth of which would be a felony. He soon realized that if he continued down that road, it was going to lead to either jail or death. By the grace of God, he was able to reach out his hand like his mother never could and, luckily, someone was there to grab it.<\/p>\n<p>That was five years ago. I\u2019ve been sober for five years and there\u2019s still not a day that goes by that I don\u2019t think about it. Sometimes, I congratulate myself on making it another day (in addict lingo &#8211; we take things \u201cone day at a time.\u201d). Other times, I desperately wish that I could just pour a glass of wine or crack open a beer (definitely not a White Claw, though &#8211; that\u2019s one fad I\u2019m not bummed about missing). What I don\u2019t do, or at least try not to do, is become involved in wrestling storylines in which my addiction issues (of which I\u2019m still decidedly ashamed of and terrified by) are the core focus.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as I\u2019ve said, everybody\u2019s journey is different. There is a chance that Jeff Hardy is so secure in his sobriety that the story he\u2019s involved in right now is \u201cjust another day at the office.\u201d The best-case scenario is that Jeff, like many artists before him, is using his preferred medium as a way to confront his \u201cdemons.\u201d Instead of writing a book or making a movie, maybe Jeff is using the art of professional wrestling to express himself and, most importantly, to heal. That\u2019s the best-case scenario and I hope against hope that\u2019s what is happening. But I don\u2019t have a lot of faith in Vince McMahon or WWE these days. I don\u2019t think they could be compassionate, subtle and nuanced enough to allow Jeff a story that would actually calm his spirit and challenge him to become an even better man than, addiction issues aside, most people say that he is. Any hope I had of that story fizzled out as soon as Jeff threw fake piss at Sheamus.<\/p><div id=\"prowr-2091806592\" class=\"prowr-content-4 prowr-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: prowrestling_incontent_2 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"prowrestling_incontent_2\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\", slotId: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>I want good things for Jeff Hardy. I\u2019ve been watching the dude since the moment Kane chokeslammed him back in \u201998. I\u2019ve been a fan of his for 20 years and he has given me moments that have raised goosebumps on my arms and brought tears to my eyes. He took me, and millions more, with him as he reached the highest of highs and, whether he knows it fully or not, we were there with him when he was in the depths too. We were there when he and his brother first etched their names in stone during the first-ever tag team ladder match against Edge and Christian. We were there in 2002 when he was fired from WWE the first time because of addiction issues. We were there when he came back in 2007 and when he won the WWE Championship from Edge in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>We were there for his feud with CM Punk and his departure from WWE again, when he told us that it wasn\u2019t \u201cgoodbye forever; it\u2019s just goodbye for now.\u201d We were there when police raided his home and when he got his first and second DUI\u2019s. We were there at Victory Road when he was in no condition to perform. We were there when he embarked on his first, second and third \u201credemption tours.\u201d We were there when he came back to WWE at WrestleMania with his brother and we\u2019re here, still. We will always be there for Jeff Hardy, and I can only hope the company who is literally profiting off his issues will be there for him as well, if the bottom falls out, again.<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, addiction is a hard thing to break if you don\u2019t have a support system. This is why organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous exist. People need accountability, support and, most importantly, love. They need grace and mercy and forgiveness and love. Even if it\u2019s tough love. What they do not need is a multi-million-dollar company exploiting their issues for television ratings or network subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that this coming tonight&#8217;s \u201cbar fight\u201d on Smackdown is the end of this particular story. I hope that Jeff got whatever he needed from it, and I hope, more than anything, that Jeff can remain clean and sober and that he can finally, and fully, defeat those demons. I hope he got some peace out of this story, otherwise it was stupid at best, and just exploitative at worst.<\/p>\n<p>Still, though. Maybe there is healing in art. I know there is. I just don\u2019t know if WWE is the proper canvas for it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-2452636434\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nick Perkins, ProWrestling.net Staffer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,2446,27],"tags":[116,88,128,55,204,56,101,3042,31],"class_list":["post-76644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mustreadarticles","category-nick-perkins","category-viewpoints","tag-jeff-hardy","tag-matt-hardy","tag-pro-wrestling","tag-sheamus","tag-undertaker","tag-vince-mcmahon","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-friday-night-smackdown","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Perkins&#039; 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