‘It turns you into an animal’, admits WWE legend as he opens up on how taking steroids affected him during career

WWE fable Jake 'the Snake' Roberts has opened up connected the interaction steroids had connected him during his career.

Roberts had an illustrious vocation successful the ring, warring for the biggest organisations successful the business - AEW, WWF and aboriginal WWE.

But to support up with the request of the job, which sometimes meant helium had to combat doubly a day, Roberts turned to steroids.

He antecedently explained his information down taking the performance-enhancing drug, stating it led to a quicker recovery.

Roberts, 69, has present revealed the grade to which steroids affected him.

He said connected The Snake Pit podcast: "It [steroids] turns you into an animal, it truly does. You hunger for lifting.

"That's each you privation to bash is lift."

Roberts is simply a erstwhile AEW heavyweight champion and helium has respective titles to his name, which led him to beryllium inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

He present hosts a podcast alongside erstwhile wrestler Diamond Dallas Page wherever the brace bespeak connected their careers - Roberts besides revealed an mishap successful the ringing crushed his dependable box.

Roberts shared however steroids affected galore of his colleagues, claiming immoderate took it excessively far.

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He said: "I went connected it for a abbreviated period, particularly aft my cervix country origin I wanted to heal quicker, but successful the WWF astatine the clip we were moving truthful hard, 7 days a week, doubly connected Saturday, doubly connected Sunday.

"You needed a small spot of steroids to assistance with the healing process.

"Now immoderate guys took that and went wholly disconnected the charts with it, but that was their prime and you know, truthful galore of those guys are gone present and I'm definite that had thing to bash with it, whether that was Randy [Savage] oregon The Road Warriors oregon Mr. Perfect, close connected down the line, man."