Tommy Dreamer made major headlines earlier this week when he revealed on his “House of Hardcore” podcast that he contemplating killing Paul Heyman and taking his own life many years ago.
Dreamer elaborated on his battles with depression on Busted Open Radio. On the podcast, Dreamer discussed why he chose to share his stories of depression. Here are the highlights:
On Why He’s Sharing His Story Now:
The main reason why I did this was because in two weeks two people killed themselves. And one, Ashley Massaro, I was supposed to meet her the next day, and the other person was Lionheart, and I didn’t know Lionheart, and I’ll read to you his last tweet, ‘One day you will eat your last meal, you will smell your last flower, you will hug your friend for the last time, you might not know it’s the last time, that’s why you must do everything you love with passion. Afterlife.’ And then he killed himself. He reached out, and then I saw Matt Hardy was like, ‘I spoke to him yesterday, he congratulated me on the birth of my child.’ I spoke to his friend that I know were his friends because I’ve gone through this loss of people doing that, and one guy, I’m not going to say who it was, he was like, I literally was talking to him yesterday, another guy, I was talking to him yesterday, and I’m sure if he would have just told the world, ‘Hey, I’m thinking of killing myself,’ the world would have told him how bad of an idea that was.
On His Battle With Depression:
It’s OK to have a sad day. It’s OK, but you have to fight through it. And I then talked about a moment in my head where life wasn’t good for me. And I’m not going to go into it because I don’t hate Paul Heyman. And it was just, when you’re sitting up late at night and thinking all these horrible thoughts, you get lost in your own head. And it was brought out to me by someone that there is a big difference between being depressed and someone who fights depression, and people who fight depression need help, and if you’re depressed, it’s much different. And I was depressed, I don’t fight or have depression, but I wanted to tell everyone, hey, even the guy you see on TV, even for me, I was in the best shape of my life, I’d go to the gym every day, but I was numb, there were some days I didn’t wake up because this thing I loved, ECW, was now gone, the person who I thought was my friend, betrayed me, my parents, I had lost so much money, all this stuff, and I was just walking around like a robot, and I don’t want people to ever feel like that.
You can listen to the podcast below:
https://twitter.com/BustedOpenRadio/status/1144686573432299521
Credit: Busted Open Radio. H/T 411Mania.
