wrestling / News

Jake Roberts Says Jerry Lawler Told Him That Pouring Alcohol On Him Was Vince McMahon’s Idea

September 27, 2022 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
WWF Superstars of Wrestling 1-31-1987 Jake Roberts Gene Okerlund Image Credit: WWE

Jake Roberts did not appreciate his struggles with alcoholism being used in his 1996 feud with Jerry Lawler in WWE. Roberts feuded with Lawler at the time in a storyline that saw the former’s addiction issues get mocked on screen, and Roberts talked about the whole angle during a Q&A episode of the DDP Snake Pit on Ad-Free Shows. You can check out a couple of highlights below, per Wrestling Inc:

On the storyline being in bad taste: “Absolutely was in horrible taste. They made fun of me for being an alcoholic… [Lawler] wound up pouring a bottle of whiskey down my face, burned the s**t out of my eyes.”

On the whiskey bottle not being gimmicked or diluted: “Ask Jerry he’ll tell you the same damn thing, because whenever it came time for me to pour it on him he goes ‘You can’t pour that on me.’ And I go ‘what do you mean? You poured it on me.’ He goes ‘Well Vince wanted it poured on you.’ That motherf**ker, you know?”

On the locker room making his struggles harder at the time: “I can’t say ‘boys will be boys’ because boys will be assholes. They were constantly putting things in my bag that shouldn’t have been there, taking chances with my damn well-being because they were putting drugs in my damn suitcase that I didn’t know were there, and I’d find s**t in there y’know? Paraphernalia and stuff. It was just horrible, man.”Â