Will Ospreay recently was interviewed by Wrestling Republic’s Eric Novak on the All Real Wrestling Podcast.
In this interview, Ospreay talks about the struggles he has when separating his gimmick from real life.
“I think I sometimes haven’t taken into consideration other people’s feelings and emotions, and I screwed up and I don’t know how to fix it. Every time I put my hands up it’s not good enough and I would beat myself up because of it. So, in a weird way I was torturing myself in the ring, I was punishing myself by doing these stupid bumps. But I enjoyed it because I enjoyed being Will Ospreay, I didn’t enjoy being Billy. So that’s kind of where it came from, and I was making decisions that I didn’t really want to do but I just did it for the good of myself. Like moving to Japan was one of them,” Ospreay said.
“Moving to Japan it was such an amazing thing to say like I’m moving to Japan please support me. It was amazing to hear that response back. There is a tear in my eye as I talk about it, but it came from such a dark, horrible place.”
Ospreay is seen as one of the world’s best wrestlers. The NJPW star mentioned more about his struggles outside of the ring.
“I’m still struggling with that and like as time goes on, I don’t know who Billy or Will Ospreay is anymore. I struggled so hard trying to separate them, now I’ve kind of got it under control but like in 2020 even throughout a lot of 2021, I was not in a good mindset, and I was like breaking down behind the scenes and a lot of people may not have known but I think a lot of people could tell,” Ospreay said.
“That was literally one of the worst periods of my life. I felt like I let the entire world down and I was just pushing myself. I was killing it in the gym, I was killing it in my diet. I was like the worst I’ve ever been, everyone knows like my mental side of things I was going down and down and down.”
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