Zach Gowen is thankful that WWE helped him get his life back on track.
Former WWE Superstar Zach Gowen was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. During the interview, Gowen revealed that reached out to WWE at a very low point of his life to help get himself clean.
“That is, and what’s funny is that we don’t understand the real meaning behind what we’re doing when we’re going through it,” Zach Gowen said. “It’s only in retrospect, yeah. Because if you’d have asked me at 19, 20 years old, like, alright, you know, what’s the end goal here? What’s the ultimate goal? It’s, man, to stay a WWE Superstar forever. And that’s all I can see.
“Because that was what was in front of me, you know, and that’s what was interesting to me at the time. But no, that planted the seeds to allow me to tap into the WWE wellness policy for them to pay for my rehabilitation at 26 years old, literally saving my life. Because when I was 26 years old, and I was at rock bottom, and I was at the most miserable I’d ever been in my life, and the most hopeless I’ve ever been in my life.
Zach Gowen found sobriety thanks to WWE
“I didn’t have the resources, I didn’t have any money, I didn’t have any connections. I didn’t know anybody who was sober; I didn’t know anybody who walked that path before. And it was those letters that I got every six months from WWE that said, hey, listen, if you were ever under contract with WWE, and you’ve reached a position in life where you need help, we are willing to help just call this number, that’s all I had to do was call that number.
“And then within three minutes, they’re booking flights and putting me in rooms and at the world-class treatment centers and all of this stuff, and you know that that was the foundation of everything that is that is good in my life now is a direct result of my sobriety.”
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