8 Wrestlers Who Went Nuts Overseas
2. P*ssed, P*issed On And P*ssed Off
The William Regal that mastered a remastered version of his old WCW 'Lord' persona in WWE wasn't the man that first signed with the company in 1998 or even the one that briefly got work back in Atlanta the following year. He was by that point knee deep in a booze and pills addiction that threatened to derail some of the outstanding work he'd done throughout the decade.
A 1997 incident in particular even left him incarcerated - though he had absolutely no memory of getting sent to the the prison cell he awoke in.
During a lengthy trip between Tokyo, Japan and Detroit, Michigan, Regal had left an airplane toilet door open whilst urinating, and was too inebriated to stop the flow when turning round to respond to the steward's request. The ugly scene landed him with a $2500 fine and the aforementioned stay in an Alaskan jail - the plane had landed prematurely to hoof him from the flight.
As evidenced by some uncomfortable WWE television appearances in 1998, he'd not yet reached his rock bottom, but few experiences highlighted the steepness of his slide.