Matt Riddle says he failed multiple drug tests for cocaine during his time in WWE. He also recalled how he failed one test after he partied at a strip club.
Speaking with Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour, Matt Riddle commented on failing drug tests during his time with the company.
“I had two offenses…they didn’t make any of the offenses public,” Matt Riddle said. “I think they just wanted to keep it on the hush-hush. Which I completely understand, and they punished me. I got fined. You’re allowed to smoke weed. I went to the strip club and did some cocaine a couple times and I failed a drug test for that. That was for all of them, it was for cocaine each time. But it was honestly just random nights. The first drug test I took, the WWE tests you randomly any week, but sometimes you get tested at the end of one month and the beginning of another month. So there was one week where I failed bang-bang, didn’t know I failed the second one, and by the time I found out I failed the first one, I got two right at once.
“So I think that’s why they were a little more lenient, like, ‘Hey, we tested you back to back, you failed both those tests.’ I was like, okay. I go, ‘Hey guys, I want to show you no more problems. Hey, you guys can test me every week for the next ten weeks every week, whatever.’ I did that and I was fine. Didn’t fail one test, didn’t do anything. When I thought I was in the clear, went out and partied a little bit, and they gave me a random test at my house and I failed that. Shortly after that, they had me to go rehab.”
Matt Riddle On His Time In Rehab
Helwani asked whether WWE made him go to rehab, and Matt Riddle stated that he agreed to go. He looked back on the time he spent in rehab and recalled how it came to an end ahead of WrestleMania.
“They can’t make you do anything, right? But at the same time, it’s like, go or, you know, and I was like, okay, I’ll go,” Matt Riddle said. “I went for the 30 days, and I left. When I left, they made recommendations, and they wanted me to stay another 30 days. I said I would do 30 days, I don’t want to do another 30 days. I missed Christmas, I missed New Year’s with my family. [And] I learned my lesson. Trust me, I don’t go out and rage it up any more like that. I learned my lesson, and they were like, no, we want you to do another 30 days.
“I was like, well, I want to get my black belt, I’d been waiting 10 years for that because RK-Bro was very successful, and I cleared my bucket, so I made enough money where I could finally buy a house, so I bought a house, and my aunt had cancer, so I went to see her. But I didn’t get to see them during the holidays, so I was like, ‘Hey, let me go do these couple of things while I leave.’ I did those, and then I went back for another 30 days, and then I got out, and I was just waiting. This was like a month before WrestleMania. They’re like, ‘Oh, we don’t have anything for you. Maybe Raw after Mania.’ I’m like, dude, they’re gonna fire me.”
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