A tennis player was brutally attacked with his own racket after being set upon by a gang of ‘feral’ youths. A man in his 30s was playing tennis with a friend at a park in Salford when he became embroiled in a row with up to 15 teenagers.
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Hulk Hogan is opening up about beating an addiction to prescription painkillers he’d developed after undergoing numerou surgeries.
“I was hitting the pain pills hard because I’d had to endure 25 procedures, including 10 to my back, facial operations from being kicked, knee and hip replacements and abdominal and shoulder surgeries,” Hogan — whose real name is Terry Bollea — explained in a new interview with Muscle And Health.
“There was a period of time, about five or six years ago, where I was in crazy pain to the extent I couldn’t even function. When you have back surgery, it takes a good year for your body to recover, yet they were cutting on me every four months,” he continued.
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“I needed pain meds at that stage, that’s for sure. But once things started to wind down, they continued giving me the same meds,” he explained.
“It got to a point where I’d recovered from the 10th back surgery and the pharmacy would call me and say, ‘Your prescription’s ready,’ and like a dog chasing a bone, I’d go pick it up,” he added.
“Then, finally, I just looked at myself, and I said, ‘I’m not in pain. I don’t need this. My body hurts from all the wrestling injuries, but I’m not in this excruciating pain that I can’t live with,” he said.
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Meanwhile, Hogan also revealed that he quit drinking earlier this year.
“About seven months ago, I decided not to drink any more alcohol. I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and I saw a bunch of stuff that I didn’t condone or like. I saw myself in this environment and I went, ‘You know
A tennis player was brutally attacked with his own racket after being set upon by a gang of ‘feral’ youths. A man in his 30s was playing tennis with a friend at a park in Salford when he became embroiled in a row with up to 15 teenagers.
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