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During his latest podcast, Konnan discussed his recent hospitalization and how close he came to dying:
"So let me tell you what happened. I f*cking was in the hospital, I wake up, thereâs six doctors in front of me. An Nephrologist, a Cardiologist, an Infectious Disease doctor and theyâre very, very mad. Theyâre angry with me because Iâm not taking my pills, Iâm being very rude, Iâm not listening to instructions. This is in the hospital.
[I wasnât listening to them] because I didnât want to believe it was as bad as they were telling me. I didnât wanna hear bad news. Now the bad news mean I canât work, I canât make money, as if thatâs everything in life which it isnât and so theyâre f*cking talking to me and one guy just f*cking gives me a kick right in the nuts. He goes, âWell Mr. Ashenoff, since you donât seem to understand the gravity of this situation, Iâm gonna put it to you in black and white. Thereâs a very good chance, and when I mean very good chance, over 60 percent that your heart is going to stop. What would you like us to do with that heart?â The other guy goes â I just was in shock. The other guy goes, âObviously, that didnât seem to illicit a response out of you.â Well of course it didnât motherf*cker. Iâm f*cking in shock. âYour kidneys are failing. What would you like us to do with that? Donate it to science?â They gave us like three or four f*cking things. Then another guy walks in, a Chaplain and you know I hate religion, and the motherf*cker wanted to pray with me. I almost threw him out the window but thatâs real sh*t bro, and you survey your life and you go, âOkay, so what have I done?â Had a lot of fun, took a lot of drugs, traveled the world, told a lot of people to go get f*cked. But I did it my way, you know what Iâm saying? And at the end of the day, I am not any way, shape or form going to in any way, shape or form cow toe, bend to, kiss ass, just because people in this industry have money and everybodyâs trying to get as much money as they can and they donât wanna tell them the truth. Some of the conversations that I had with my closest friends were, âHow did you put up with my bullsh*t for so long?â And one of the things they always told me is, âNo matter what, at least you kept it real with us.â"
"I was very, very, very â and Iâm not a dramatic guy. Iâm not, âOh! Look at how much I work, look at how sick I am. Thank you to everybody.â Thatâs just not me. It doesnât make me better than anybody, doesnât make me smarter than anybody. Itâs just who I am, and at the end of the day bro, I just wanna live whatever I have left. If itâs one day, two days, what does it make a difference if at my funeral if five guys are there or 300 guys are there, Iâm dead, you know? What did I do while I was here? What did I help do? My inner being is a helpful person like you Disco [Inferno]. You like to help people, so do I. Thereâs no way I wouldâve helped so many guys that arenât my family members if there wasnât a part of me that likes to help people, and so, but what are you gonna be known for? For a guy that just went around bullsh*tting everybody and f*cking â you know what Iâm saying? I mean at the end of the day, I just had kind of like an awakening and thatâs all there is to it and Iâm very â let me tell you one thing: I am fortunate â and I do not overdramatize this â to be alive." (quotes courtesy of PostWrestling.com)
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