Back in December Jeff Hardy worked a six man tag team match at a WWE live event and after he made a hot tag he exited the match and left through the crowd. Following the incident it was reported that Jeff had been released after WWE gave him an ultimatum that would have required him to go to rehab.
In the weeks following his release there was a lot of speculation regarding what may have happened with Jeff Hardy’s release, but during a recent Twitch stream Matt Hardy confirmed that his brother’s drug test came back clean.
“Whenever my brother ended up being released, he had taken a drug test. And usually these drug tests come back in 10 to 14 days. You’ll get the sheet that says ‘you are compliant and you were negative on everything.’ Those 10 to 14 days had been up for him, and he never got a result, and he was very curious of where his result was because he knew he had passed his drug test because he hadn’t been doing drugs.
“He’s been clean, he’s been clean the whole while he has been there. I know there was an issue, they said ‘Jeff Hardy had this erratic behavior. He jumped over the guardrail or whatever.’ But look, it’s Jeff Hardy. He’s a weird dude, it’s kind of what he does. The erratic behavior is why they gave him the drug test and they sent him home.”
Matt Hardy went on to say that Jeff still didn’t have his results after three weeks, and that he was getting the runaround from both WWE and the drug test company. According to Matt his brother did indeed receive an offer to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, but when he asked for his drug test results he had to get a lawyer invovled.
“Then he got a call, which has been reported online, from John Laurinaitis and they had offered to induct him into the Hall of Fame. They said they wanted to do this. I know people have seen this online and that’s not made up, that’s a real thing that happened. And he just asked for his drug test at the very end of the conversation, he said ‘no I want the drug test. I want the clean result’, kind of to clear his name, as he should, especially given his history. So after my brother’s wife dealt with WWE and the drug testing company quite a bit, they actually spoke with a lawyer and kind of had them help them out a little bit. And just a couple days ago he got the drug test back, and the drug test is compliant. Everything was a negative, he passed on all levels.”
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