10 Times Wrestlers Secretly LIED To The Locker Room
7. Jake Roberts
Per multiple sources including the man himself in the various contradictory statements made in some dark years that followed, Jake Roberts' image as a reformed character in 1996 was sadly false for longer than it was true.
Sitting down to do long interviews with Jim Ross and others following his Royal Rumble return, Roberts spoke a great game about his trials, his tribulations, and all the steps he'd taken to tackle his demons once and for all.
Fairly quickly, it became apparent that he wasn't doing the best job, but WWE's decision to weave this deeper into storylines later that year exacerbated the situation. Jerry Lawler's jibes and real Jack Daniels being used instead of prop booze expedited Roberts' descent, and by the end of the year he was masking his total return to the dark side in front of all his colleagues just to try and get an agents job as his in-ring days started to wind down.