Jeff Hardy Breaks Silence On Incident That Led To WWE Release

Jeff Hardy has now broken his silence about the house show incident that led to him being released by WWE last year.

The story was that Hardy walked out through the crowd during the middle of a match, and WWE believed he was under the influence of something, and told him he either had to go to rehab or he’d be released.

He said he didn’t want to go to rehab, and thus, was released. However, he passed the drug test, meaning WWE pretty much jumped the gun.

Jeff Hardy appeared on the latest edition of the Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, and opened up about his release and his time in WWE. He said:

“Certain things happen for a reason. Subconsciously, that was maybe the smartest thing I’ve ever done, guided by something higher than me, I’ll say.

“The best way I can describe my journey the last few months in WWE was like ‘glimmers of hope, maybe I still do have something.’

“The last glimmer of hope was Survivor Series, which was really good. It came down to me and Seth Rollins, I was killing it, almost won and the crowd was so behind me. I felt like one of the most popular babyfaces in WWE because the crowd was so with me. Then there were other times where I felt like a ghost, roaming the halls like, ‘Why am I even here? I don’t feel important’. I kept doing my deal and would show up and do whatever they wanted me to do. I’ve never been a politicker so I don’t go out of my way to try and get a certain spot or achieve a certain status.

“That night in Edinburg, Texas, I finished my heat, I took the heat, and I said, ‘I’m ready to go’. Went over the rail, disappeared into the crowd. Naturally, they think I took something like drugs or whatever, but I didn’t. If I was that bad, I should have never went out there, that’s the way I see it. I thought, ‘Just another unpredictable thing I can do and I’ll get away with it’. It was more serious than that.

“Again, it was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done because everything worked out so perfectly, mainly because my first day in AEW, I felt valuable for the first time. The care and love I was shown, I got chills thinking about it. In WWE, it felt like they just wanted to keep me there to sell action figures. I put so much love and joy in painting my face, when I see it come out and immortalized in an action figure, I’m like, ‘That’s why it do this, it’s so cool’. That’s one thing I’m super excited about in AEW, my first action figure with the face paint.”

WWE actually made Jeff Hardy an offer to return after finding out he’d passed his drug test, which even included him being inducted into the Hall of Fame, but he rejected it in favor of reuniting with Matt in AEW.

After Jeff debuted last Wednesday, the Hardys made their in-ring AEW tag team debut this past Wednesday with a win over Private Party.

Quotes via Fightful

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