In a recent interview with the Cheap Heat With Peter Rosenberg podcast, WWE RAW superstar R-Truth discussed several topics, including how close he was to having his leg amputated following his recent injury.

“I had a hole in my knee, I had five different bacteria that caused the infection along with MRSA. It started off as a routine quad tear, I tore my bottom quad, they went in and I guess it could have happened during surgery, I went to get the stitches out and we found out that the bacteria, the infection, was eating from the inside out, so that’s where the hole came from.

The doctor said, we’ve got to get this under control, if we can’t get this under control, I’m going to have to think of options. He was straight shooting with me, he said you’re in the woods big time, we have to get this under control, it would not heal. Then, I had to go three months, I had to have a wound VAC on, it was a VAC on my knee that kept sucking the old blood up and putting the new blood, all of that stuff, like I had to wear that for six weeks, all along with a PICC line that I had to have for eight weeks.

I did that, and once all of that was over with, the stitches started coming out on their own, so I had stitches coming out of my knee by itself, so my body wasn’t agreeing to it, so I had to get surgery for a third time and the infection was still there, so I had to get another PICC line as well.

It was a good four months or five months of just trying to kill the infection, slow it down, stop it and I’m going mentally crazy, because there was a chance. He said the other option was amputation, so to go from doing the 24/7 stuff, running around, doing things with my kids to NXT, me and Grayson Waller tearing it down and doing things to stopping and then getting told this, it was a big reality check man, it was a pump the brakes moment.”

The full episode is available at this link.