Wrestling legend Jake 'The Snake' Roberts was all but ready to give up on life when three years ago a friend pulled him from the brink. By the time Roberts' former protege Diamond Dallas Page, the founder of DDP Yoga, tracked down the 59-year-old Hall of Famer, Roberts hit rock bottom with drug and alcohol addiction, and as far as he was concerned, there was no way out for him. 'I had given up on life completely; I was just waiting to die. I was praying it would happen soon,' Roberts recalls in a new documentary The Resurrection of Jake The Snake Roberts, which tells the story of how, against overwhelming odds, the former WWF celebrity was able to turn his life around.
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Former WWF legend Jake 'The Snake' Roberts is the subject of a new documentary chronicling his battle with addiction
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Roberts, 59, teamed up with former wrestler-turned-yoga guru Diamond Dallas Page to try and kick his habit It took Roberts three years of dieting and exercise to shed 80lbs and became sober
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