I realised that life is about the story that you tell yourself. “I lost track of how many times he said ‘yes!’ It was a testament to the power of positive reinforcement. Long before recently retired WWE superstar, Daniel Bryan, was screaming, “YES!”, it tweaked with DDP how much Robbins used the word. What about that story?’”ĭDP had his own life-changing epiphany at an Anthony Robbins seminar.
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That’s why when I saw Jake doing a TV interview one time, talking about his childhood abuse, I pulled him aside off camera and said, ‘Why are you telling this story again? What about the story that you’re writing now? People love you, they’ve donated money through Indiegogo to fix up your body, and you’re making the mother of all comebacks. So much of life is about the story that we tell ourselves, and the story that we tell the world. “And I knew that he just needed to change his story. It’s obvious why Roberts was ripe for a make-over, (and given his salty charisma, why he’d be a great doco subject), but why did Page believe that Roberts could actually make it out to the other side of addiction? “I knew the guy underneath all the pain,” he replies. I deserve the three beers.’ I had to communicate to him, ‘Yeah, you’re a man – because you have the power to not take that drink.’” Jake was of the mind-set, ‘I can have three beers. It’s okay to enjoy a drink now and then, but some people shouldn’t take a drink ever. When Jake moved into my pad though, I had to lock all that away. “Only the good stuff, like Don Julio tequila. “Oh, I can still drink a few times a week with no hangover at my age!” DDP laughs. I could see the path forward for him even when he couldn’t.” It’s the fact that DDP doesn’t come across as holier-than-thou that makes him so likeable, and probably why Roberts couldn’t say no, despite his deep malaise. “Jake was there for me, so man – I felt like this was the least that I could do. And when you’re Jake The Snake, you ain’t ever buying a drink in my joint!” Fortuitously, the pair formed a connection over a few bevvies, and Roberts took Page under his tutelage when he attempted to transition into WCW wrestling in his mid-thirties. “I originally met Jake because I ran a nightclub in Florida! He’d come in when he was on the road.
The irony of ironies is that DDP and Jake owe their special bond to… alcohol. Enter DDP.ĭiamond Dallas Page & Jake The Snake RobertsĭDP utilises positive thinking, simple accountability, and his trademark brand of power-based DDP Yoga (the film is an authentic advertisement for the product) to rebirth the Snakeman, all covered exhaustively in The Resurrection Of Jake The Snake. As the morale of the formerly svelte wrestler shrivelled, his girth ballooned, to the point where he could barely shuffle around his Georgia home without feeling excruciating pain in his limbs.
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While wrestling kept him somewhat on the straight and narrow (he was already indulging in promiscuity and drugs in his heyday), by the time that the bright lights were fading, Roberts was falling headlong into alcohol and crack cocaine addiction, arising from a childhood rife with sexual abuse. Roberts was never a muscle-bound hulk in the era of Hogan, but he’d become a Hall Of Fame-worthy superstar by the early ‘90s thanks to his stunning command of the microphone, patenting a whispery vocal delivery that could make blood run cold. “I’ve been in Byron Bay, Melbourne…I’m just loving every minute,” DDP enthuses, as he drains a morning protein shake in his hotel room.Įven if you’re averse to wrestling, that most American of performance arts, you’ll likely have heard of Roberts, who famously carried a snake in a bag to the ring, unleashing the serpent on opponents after braining them with his “finisher”, the DDT. DDP is down under to host screenings of the documentary, The Resurrection Of Jake The Snake – which depicts the torturous but ultimately uplifting mental and physical rehabilitation of fallen WWE icon, Jake Roberts.
This is a guy who radiates mega-watt positivity, even through a trans-Pacific skype connection. When DDP hears about the geographic switcheroo, he laughs deep and long, showing off a set of eye-poppingly white chompers. By some quirk of scheduling, I am in the US, and Diamond Dallas Page is in Australia.
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