Ex-WWE Champion Confesses: “Life After Wrestling Was Really Dark”

This former WWE star had it really rough when he quit wrestling.

Few stories showcase a complete turnaround for a person after they contemplate ending it all.

One such bittersweet and inspirational tale is that of former WWE star Marc Mero.

Mero worked in WCW in the 1990s, where he won the WCW World Television Title three times before leaving the company, citing creative differences and joining WWE (then WWF).

There, he won the WWE Intercontinental Title and feuded with his then-wife, former WWE star Sable.

Unfortunately for Mero, in 2003, Sable had an affair while on the road with WWE Icon Brock Lesnar, which led to gut-wrenching heartbreak and subsequent divorce.

Mero has stated on multiple occasions that he was depressed, and renewed faith in Jesus Christ is what eventually got him back on track.

Former WWE Star Marc Mero Says Life After Wrestling Was Very Dark

Mero got candid in an interview with Chris Van Vliet on his podcast Insight.

When asked if he had a plan after retiring from wrestling, Mero denied having had any.

He shared his inspirational story in which he went from falling back into drugs, having no money, going through a divorce, and contemplating suicide to finding his faith in Jesus, getting a job as a gym trainer, and bringing his life back on track.

Oh, man. First of all, life after wrestling was really dark. That’s when I really fell into drugs again, walked away from God, just lived a horrible life. Just didn’t care. I let myself go out of shape, out of money, out of time. It was just where I remember that it came to the point where I just didn’t want to be here anymore, losing so many people in my life, and then, of course, going through the divorce and going through all that again.

It’s just the depression got so bad, and I had anger issues also on top of that, you know, because you blame other people, and you live with this bitterness and this resentment, and all these things that come together just weigh on you, and you just feel it. I know someone out there is listening to this right now that’s going, I went through that, or maybe I’m going through that right now, and it came to the point where I just remember that I just wanted to end it.

It was Christmas Day, and I drove to Cocoa Beach, Florida on Christmas Day, and I sat under a pier, and I remember the waves just rolling in and out and just thinking, I don’t want to be here anymore. I had no place to go. I mean, Christmas was always so big in my life, many of our friends have passed on through the wrestling and, of course, going through the divorce and all the heartache I went through, I remember just wanting to end it all, and then, if it wasn’t for me getting on my knees and asking Christ back into my life. I remember just begging him for forgiveness and thinking to myself, What am I going to do? I’m basically starting over again.

So I get a job. That’s where I got a job at Gold’s Gym as a trainer, and started, and then this thing started getting better and better and next thing you know, when the schools thing opened up. But let me get back to that little office building I’ve bought for 200 grand, because it’s part of the story.

So fast forward. Now, all these years later, I have this little building that I recently sold four years ago, but I held the note. I was the bank, okay, and they gave me a huge down payment, and they have to pay X amount of money for 10 years. And there’s a balloon payment. And the way the Lord works this balloon payment is $214,000, exactly what I bought it for all those years ago.

So it’s an incredible story, but it’s just how my life has turned out, that those things, you wonder how this happened. I don’t believe in coincidence. I really believe that things are meant to be. So anyone out there that’s maybe going through a hard time, man, hang in there. It’s gonna get better. You got to believe that.

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