Jon Moxley reflects on his hard year.
During a recent interview with ComicBook.com‘s Christian Hoffer, Jon Moxley opened up about some of the mental struggles he continued to work through in 2023.
“Yeah, 2023 was actually very tough,” Moxley said. “It’s been a tough couple of years actually. I went to rehab a couple of years ago, and there’s a lot more to that than what they tell you – the reality of actually stopping doing coke or go to rehab or stop drinking or whatever. Not drinking….that’s easy to a degree. It’s only one thing you got to do, just not drink.”
Jon Moxley: Something Just Hit Me
Jon Moxley went on to explain that he’s worked to get things back to “normal. However, he has found it challenging trying to figure out what that normal looks like for him. But toward the end of the year, around the time the AEW Continental Classic started, Moxley switched his medications and had an epiphany.
“I got sorted out with my doctors and stuff right around December, which was right around when the [Continental Classic] was starting,” Moxley said. “I was having kind of a bad time the first couple weeks in there. But things kind of switched, especially once I stopped taking this medication. I just kind of had a, I don’t know what to call it, sort of an epiphany or a splash of cold water in the face. Something just hit me.”
“I don’t know, maybe I was just accepting of getting punched in the face by circumstances over and over,” Moxley added. “Eventually, guys just get tired and they just get used to being on the bottom. They stop even trying to get up. At some point, I think I just got used to just taking abuse from circumstances. And then I kind of woke up out of it and I was like, ‘What the? Get your act together.’ And that flipped the switch in me. So, the second half of that whole tournament was a whole different story.”
Moxley will return to AEW on the January 20 episode of AEW Collision. WrestleZone will have coverage of the show as it airs.
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