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How I Met Emil Jay and Started Working For GCW
Using the right picture for your story can be a game changer
I walk through the backstage door right past the security guard at the Ukrainian Events Center in Hollywood. No need to give my name, everyone knows me. I’ve been working backstage at Game Changer Wrestling shows for the past year.
Emil sees me come in and says, “Aye! There he is! What’s up brother?” as we fist bump and hug.
Then we go smoke a joint in the parking lot. I remember I needed a picture of just the two of us for a story I’m writing. We snag GCW commentator Jordan Castle to take the pic.
After taking the picture Jordan asked, “How did you guys meet?”
“Long story.” I said, “But it’s 4 hours till bell time and the ring is set up, so have a seat.”
After five years of heroin addiction, I hit rock bottom in 2019. Existence was a perpetual cycle of relapse and withdrawals. I’d been blackballed by every tech recruiting agency rendering me unable to afford my habit. If I didn’t do something my next stop was living on the streets.
I needed to get away from that life. After sweating it out for two months in a family friend’s guest bedroom, heroin loosened its grip on me.
