WWE Hall of Famer Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts was rushed to hospital on Friday with a major health scare. The 69-year-old retired wrestler, who pioneered the DDT move and was known for using serpent friends like Damien to terrorise his opponents, has opened up about his health issues after a ‘pretty scary moment’ on Friday.
‘I got incredibly sick, and I wound up going to the hospital on Friday night. Don’t remember a damn thing. It’s pretty scary,’ he said. ‘Come to find out I had pneumonia, and that’s not a good thing for me. I already have COPD, and to get pneumonia, and that’s not a good thing for me.
‘I already have COPD, and to get pneumonia is like you’re flirting with disaster there. I was in the hospital for four days, and very grateful to find out that I’ve got a couple of issues and I did not know.’. Roberts, whose health woes and past struggles with addiction have been well documented, revealed he had blood in his urine and ‘somewhere in [his] gut’, as well as heart issues.
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‘One is I had blood on my urine, didn’t know that. Another thing is, apparently I’m leaking blood somewhere in my gut, and that’s causing my iron levels to be low,’ he said on his own The Snake Pit podcast. ‘That’s not a good thing. Then to top it off, I got a problem with my ticker. But by going in, I caught it, and we got to go have a couple of procedures done, and it’ll be all hunky dory then.
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