"When I did that scene, I had a catheter and a PICC line."
Paul Heyman says he worked multiple episodes of WWE Raw last year while hospitalized with a serious infection, traveling back and forth between his hospital bed and the arena without telling anyone.
Heyman said he passed several kidney stones after WrestleMania 41, and that one cut his urinary tract, leading to an infection that spread and put him in White Plains Hospital. With a penicillin allergy and antibiotics that weren't working, he refused to miss television. He said he checked himself out, chartered his own jet to Raw, did the show, then flew back and checked himself in again, repeating the routine for about two weeks.
He revealed that the on-air segment in which Jay Uso accused him of betraying the Tribal Chief was filmed while he still had a catheter and a PICC line in place.
"Going to Raw was better for my health than just lying in that hospital bed," Heyman said. "The 18 hours that it took to travel to R...
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