Carlito: "I Am Not Addicted to Pills"

The Puerto Rican grappler was axed in May after failing a drug test and subsequently refusing to attend rehab.

But the 31-year-old insists he had been keen to call time on his professional wrestling career long before his dismissal.

Carlito said: "I had been trying to leave for about three years. For the last year, I was just miserable. I wasn't even myself. I was dying just to get away...More?

source: the sun

I thought he was trying to get fired when he said the following in 2008:

"I may get in trouble, but that's why I'm here. My opinion is that it was a smart move by [HHH]. I think that's why he's champion now and has been champion in the past, it's easier to him. We, the real wrestlers, don't depend on people in the business. We don't have that benefit. We have to deliver the maximum in the ring. Others are given championships in a plate of gold or platinum, I'm happy for him."

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