Braun Strowman 'hit Rock Bottom' After WWE Release | Metro News

Braun Strowman has revealed he was in a ‘pretty bad place’ after leaving WWE this summer.

The Monster Among Men, now going by his real name Adam Scherr, was released from the company at the beginning of June despite being positioned as a major star for much of his run and he’s admitted the shock exit took its toll on his mental health.

Speaking to JC in a Control Your Narrative interview, he said: ‘It’s a hard thing to realise, the wrestling business is very cutthroat. There are a lot of fair-weather friends that came and went through this whole process.

‘Praising and lifting you up when you’re on top of the mountain but when the mountain crumbles beneath your feet, they are standing and kicking dirt on top of you and continue to bury you.

‘It’s a hard reality pill that I had to swallow. Seeing literally my life’s work slip through my fingertips. I always said, I feel like God put me on this earth to be a WWE superstar, and for awhile he did.

‘When the realisation of hitting what my rock bottom is, I realised I was put on this earth for more. I was put on this earth to inspire people.’

Scherr – who recently made his first non-WWE wrestling appearance at Free Your Narrative II: The Monster In Us All – acknowledged his previous stance of not wanting to wrestle outside of Vince McMahon’s company.

He added: ‘Did it end how I wanted it to? Of course not. I know people always…I’ve been hearing it a ton, “You said you’d never wrestle again when you were done with WWE.”

‘Well, I was forced to be done. I said I would never wrestle for another company when I took my boots off for WWE.

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‘I never took my boots off, I never had an opportunity to put them back on and come back to work. I ain’t gonna lie, it sent me to a pretty bad place.’

Despite the way it ended, the former world champion – who is in a relationship with current NXT Women’s Champion Raquel Gonzalez – admitted he is grateful for his time in WWE.

‘I never would have been able to travel the world, see the things that I’ve done, meet the people I’ve done, fall in love with people that I met through this business,’ he said. ‘It’s something special. I’m so unbelievably humbled for these experiences that I was able to experience with WWE.’

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And he opened up on the future, and insisted he has turned down ‘an astronomical amount of money’ from ‘every three letter word corporation out there’ because he wanted to do Free The Narrative II.

He also wanted ‘the chance to breathe and live’ after working in a ‘very time-consuming environment’.

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‘In five years, I saw my parents like eight times. I missed people’s funerals, weddings, births, Christmas, Thanksgiving,’ he added. ‘The time was amazing, don’t get me wrong, but I’m a human being and I have needs when it comes to comfort. I’m very close with my parents.’

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