CM Punk says he would be “dead or in jail” if it wasn’t for professional wrestling

During an interview with The Metro, WWE star CM Punk was asked about what he might be doing if never got into professional wrestling. Here was Punk’s response…

“I’d be dead or in jail right now, 100%, and I’ve narrowly avoided jail multiple times. I really don’t know, it’s hard for me to say, ‘I was interested in this’ and ‘I was interested in that’, ‘maybe I would have done this.'”

“You ask kids nowadays, what do you want to be when you grow up? And unfortunately, I think a lot of people say ‘I want to be famous’. That sucks. Fame sucks. Fame is a side effect of being successful at what I do. I wanted to be a wrestler. I never said I wanted to be a millionaire. I never said I wanted to be a WWE superstar. I wanted to be a wrestler. I got a pair of boots and I started wrestling.”