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Jake "The Snake" Roberts is approaching 14 years of sobriety. He has also reunited with his ex-wife Cheryl, and the couple is now doing autograph signings together, Diamond Dallas Page stated on Wrestling Life with Ben Veal. Page said he spent years worrying about Roberts relapsing but no longer thinks about it. "We're coming up on the 14th year of Jake being sober, and I don't even think about it anymore. I could have a drink around him or whatever. He don't care." Page estimated it took about five years before he stopped worrying. "There's certain guys, you wonder, 'God, I hope he doesn't go back again.' And I felt like that about Jake for about five years." Page recalled that Roberts used to rationalize his drinking with a specific line. "He really used to say, 'I'm a man. I can. I deserve three beers. I could have three beers.' And at some point I said, 'When you're really a man, it'll be, I don't need three beers. I don't want three beers, because I know what comes after that, ...

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