This will be long as hell; should I apologize for that or not? Ever since I found out about Jeff’s situation, I’ve been lurking on tons of different forums and websites and I have to say, I find it truly disgusting how quick people are to judge Jeff Hardy. Yes, Jeff has some problems and yes, it’s ridiculous how much shit they found in his house, but I think there’s more to this story then we know right now.
One of those things being: whose house was actually raided? Jeff and his girlfriend have been living with Matt since last year and as far as I know, construction on Jeff’s new house has yet to be complete. If they did search Matt’s house, I think it’s more than reasonable to assume that the reason they found so many drugs is because Jeff is not using alone. I don’t know how many people here have actually watched “The Hardy Show”, but Matt’s house seems to have a revolving door. There are always loads of people partying there and doing a bunch of stupid shit (like kicking each other in the nuts and electrocuting each other with dog collars, among other ridiculous activities). A lot of time they’re shown to be drinking and I wouldn’t be shocked at all if they were all high as well.
Now, if it was Jeff’s new house they searched, then maybe that was Jeff’s personal stash and maybe he was using alone and he’s showing, once again, that he does indeed have a very serious problem. If that is the case, though, I really have to wonder about the people around him. Now, I’m not trying to lay the blame for this situation at someone else’s feet. Jeff, obviously, has a lot of problems and he doesn’t seem to want to deal with him, but I really can’t help but wonder why nobody seems to be stepping in and forcing him to deal with his issues. I know he’s close as hell with his girlfriend and with Matt and his father and he even has a couple of really close friends, and they have to see him self-destructing, so why aren’t they doing anything to help him? The people closest to Jeff always seem to be making excuses for him. Matt is always going on about how he and Jeff ‘don’t have addictive personalities’ and when people question his friends about why he left wrestling, they’ll always say that Jeff is just different and artistic and people just don’t understand him and while I do believe that is true to a degree, they never address that Jeff’s drug problem was one of the biggest factors of him leaving the WWE the first time. Everyone around him seems to be enabling him and that’s really just sad as hell.
There is one thing that is really annoying the hell out of me, though, and that is all the people commenting about how CM Punk was right all along and that he must’ve been smiling after he heard the news. Um, unless I’m greatly mistaken, everything that happened between Punk and Jeff was storyline. Unless Jeff was being pushed out of the company because of his drug problems like I’ve seen some suggest (though I highly doubt it when people are reporting the WWE was offering Jeff a pretty sweet deal to stay), I’m pretty sure Punk and the rest of the WWE thought Jeff had gotten his act together. I doubt Punk was smiling about this news anymore than anyone else was, the exceptions being immature Jeff haters and people who get a sick and twisted (not to mention, pathetic) pleasure out of other people’s misfortunes.
In the end, I honestly wish I could say that I didn’t see something like this coming, but truth be told, I’ve been terrified to check wrestling news sites for years because I’ve been so afraid that the headlines would read “Jeff Hardy Found Dead”. This wasn’t as bad, but I still see it as a real possibility one day if Jeff doesn’t get his act together. Whether he was using alone or with friends, I just really hope Jeff will get the help he needs and that he will be able beat his demons once and for all. I know it won’t be easy for him. I know plenty of addicts in real life, all of whom are still using despite all of the misfortune drugs have brought into their lives. I don’t want to see Jeff end up like them or as another wrestling tragedy. And to all the people who are laughing and joking about this, seriously, grow the fuck up. Not everybody is as perfect as you must be to cast the stones that you are.
