Brock Lesnar On Anxiety & WWE: "I Get Nervous Around People, I'm Awkward As F*ck"
"I have a total crash after being in front of audiences," says Brock Lesnar of his anxiety.
Brock Lesnar spoke on a number of enlightening topics relating to his life as a professional wrestler during a recent appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, including how he balances anxiety with his high-profile WWE career.
Conversing with the SmackDown announcer, Lesnar revealed that appearing in front of live audiences takes a toll on him. He gets nervous in front of crowds, to the extent that he has to go home and "hibernate" afterwards, with the recovery process taking several days (h/t Wrestling Headlines):-
“I have a total crash after being in front of audiences. Like, I go hibernate in Saskatchewan. Like, my downers – like, the anxiety from that – like, takes me a few days to recover. Forever, yeah it’s been that way. Like, I used to be on – have big wrestling matches in high school and – like, to come down from big arenas it’s like, I get nervous around people and I’m awkward as f*ck. Yeah, but I’m putting on a show."
Continuing, the former WWE and Universal Champion stated that he accepts his anxiety as part of who he is. Crowds exhaust him, which is why he prefers to be left alone:-
“Like I’ve got to go through all this thing, and that’s just who I am. And I like to go and just get away from the people. And it’s not that I dislike people. I mean, it’s not been that way, but some people, yeah, I don’t like. I just like to be left the f*ck alone, and because I’m like – like, I’m in front of an audience then it just exhausts me. And so I’ve got to go and like, recharge up.”
Lesnar, who has been appearing before gigantic, five-figure MMA and wrestling crowds since debuting for WWE in 2002, is due to challenge for the WWE Championship at Elimination Chamber 2022 this Saturday (19 February).
This latest interview continues Brock's recent run of media appearances, which hasn't been the norm for the 44-year-old throughout his career. Nonetheless, it is refreshing to hear him speak openly on such topics as his mental health, shedding light on the man behind the big, destructive monster he plays on television.