WWE icon thought his latest DUI arrest was ‘just another bad dream’

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Jeff Hardy has candidly opened up about his personal struggles (Picture: TNA Wrestling)

TNA Wrestling legend Jeff Hardy has recalled having ‘dreams of getting another DUI’ before his most recent arrest.

The former world champion, best known for his time in WWE alongside brother Matt Hardy, has been candid about his struggles with addiction but he wasn’t sure he’d be able to come back from his 2022 arrest during his time with All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk, he said: ‘I was in a jail cell, and I’d had dreams previously of getting another DUI [where] I woke up in relief that it was only a dream.

‘But I was in that cell, “I can’t shake myself awake. Am I going to be able to come back from this?” And so I knew it was going to be a long road, and take a lot of hard work and patience and love.’

The 47-year-old daredevil is grateful for TNA for giving him a platform, with he and his brother Matt currently holding the company’s tag team championships.

He said: ‘For it to be all better now and still able to wrestle, it’s just crazy cool that I get up every day and I think about, “What can I do next in professional wrestling?” And I still have the opportunity to shine in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.’

WWE legends the Hardy Boyz - Matt and Jeff Hardy - making their entrance as TNA Wrestling tag team champions
Matt and Jeff, the Hardy Boyz, are top of the mountain in TNA (Picture: TNA Wrestling)

Jeff is also motivated by using his own struggles with addiction to help inspire other people, and hours before our interview he started work on his own memoirs from his time in rehab.

‘I can help people through being public and pretty much outgoing about what I’ve been through. I’m like a lot of people out there in the world, just really struggling with addiction, alcoholism,’ he said.

‘But hopefully that that’s inspired a lot of people, me just being honest with everything.

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Nikki Sixx (second from right) has inspired Jeff to write his own book (Picture: Mick Hutson/Redferns)

‘And I just started this morning, actually – I’ve got five years of journaling. I read this book called The Heroin Diaries a long time ago, I think Nikki Sixx put it out.

‘My first day in my first rehab, I said, I might as well write about this every day and just share my experience. So I started going back through all those journal entries, five years of journal entries, and I wrote my first page today.’

Jeff hopes to have something special to share with the world ‘in a couple of years’, but it’s clear the decorated star isn’t living in the past.

WWE legend Jeff Hardy gets ready to jump off a ladder through a table in TNA Wrestling
The Charismatic Enigma is delighted to still be performing at this level (Picture: TNA Wrestling)

‘It’s just so cool to be 47 years old, sober, wrestling and really thriving with my brother again in TNA, where I’ve had a lot of cool moments in my in my career, from TNA supporting me,’ he said.

‘Hopefully I can give back to them, and really show how grateful I am.’

The Charismatic Enigma ‘dwells on the present’, and tries to ‘meditate and manifest all the time’ to help him work towards his goals.

‘I see what I want to do in my wrestling career before it’s all over, and I kind of just picture them in my mind,’ he explained. ‘This is the journey I was born to live, I think.’

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WWE legend Jeff Hardy strikes his signature pose on TNA Wrestling
He still gets scared before his big moment (Picture: TNA Wrestling)

That doesn’t mean he isn’t scare, especially when it comes to having a career defined by thrill seeking moments, including huge dives off 20-foot ladders.

‘So many times that I tell myself before I jump off something, I’m like, “Oh my God, this might be the end of my career,’” he confessed. ‘But luckily, I think it’s kind of what I was born to do, I was born to be in this position of professional wrestling.’

He still pushes himself to this day, including a recent tables match teaming with his brother Matt against The System, where he almost recreated a moment from Madison Square Garden two decades earlier.

WWE legend Jeff Hardy hits Swanton Bomb off balcony at TNA Wrestling Final Resolution
He was on top of the world after this moment at Final Resolution (Picture: TNA Wrestling)
WWE legend Jeff Hardy lies on the ground after crashing through a table at TNA Wrestling Final Resolution
The history making moments are worth the pain (Picture: TNA Wrestling)

‘The Swanton I did to end the match was so identical to the one I did to D’Von Dudley,’ he recalled. ‘It was way sketchier, the table was all diagonal.’

Despite being ‘super afraid’, Jeff admitted the fear was ‘part of the fun’, as he focuses on a very different kind of addiction as he focuses on a sober life.

‘I was really jacked up on adrenaline after that match, excited for our next one. “Oh God, I got to do something like that again,”‘ he said. ‘So, it’s a good type of addiction I need in pro wrestling and human life.’

TNA Wrestling: Genesis airs January 19 at 1am. Fans can tune in via TrillerTV.

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