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Jimmy Jacobs recently joined the Talk Is Jericho podcast and spoke about his time with the WWE.
Jacobs was fired from WWE in October after posting an Instagram photo with The Bullet Club during their “invasion” of Monday Night RAW in September Jacobs said he would sometimes perform the promos he wrote for Vince McMahon himself just so he can properly gauge how the Chairman would respond to them.
“I always tried to deliver it to him, but a lot of times he would just ask for the paper. Vince [McMahon] had a critical eye when it came to promos and he was big on words, and rightfully so,” Jacobs said. “In Vince’s mind, sometimes I think the promos get flack from fans. In Vince’s mind, if you just left it for the performer to say what he wants to say, everybody is just going to say that I am going to kick your a**. Vince is very big on having creativity in there. I always felt that he had a very sharp eye and so sometimes I felt that my words, just by themselves wouldn’t hold up, so I always liked to perform them to Vince, and sometimes he liked them, sometimes he didn’t.”
Jacobs also discussed his departure from the WWE and revealed he suffered from a severe drug addiction to opium.
“With WWE being the mecca of life, suddenly I didn’t seem to exist, and finding yourself, and being clean for the first time in a long time, which I am still, seven months ago. You find different parts of yourself. I found that I missed performing, and found that I wasn’t okay with being in a suit and tie, and having my hair slicked back, and not having jewlery in, and not having makeup on,” he said. “That is part of who I am, since I was a kid trying on my grandma’s earrings. This is part of me; I struggled with drug addiction and depression for so long. It’s really weird because you don’t hear this often, but when you are in that state, you can’t trust that voice in your head. When you are depressed you just want to throw everything away. When you are on drugs you want to make this crazy leap, and then you think about you being high and saying that it’s a choice because of it. You spend a lot of time just with your head down and move forward and you can’t really make decisions, and then suddenly here I am finding things out about myself and making decisions so, look, am I a mastermind where i created the hottest angle outside of WWE to get myself fired from WWE? No, I wasn’t trying to get fired, but I wasn’t trying to not get fired.
“There is zero bitter feelings,” he continued. “I had a fun two and a half years there. I have zero bitterness of why they fired me. This past six weeks has been the time of my life. If Vince wanted to keep me around he would have kept me around. I don’t even know how that got in front of him, but he had made the decision that I needed to go. I was cool with that because I felt that I needed to go.”
