From there, R-Truth described his journey into pro wrestling as a “fairy tale.” During his initial years in the industry, he was able to meet the likes of AJ Styles, who saw his potential. “He said, ‘You belong on TV, man!’ I said, ‘Bro, I’m just happy I’m not in jail, and I can wrestle,'” he recalled.

From there, he was told to make a wrestling tape and send it to WWE, and two weeks later he got a call from Terry Taylor. “It’s rolling, it’s happening, I’m like, ‘Okay, this is crazy,'” Truth said. “Two weeks [later], I got the call, they … flew me in to meet Vince [McMahon].” Truth then recalled how he lied about his weight and height to get into WWE, but Taylor took him in to meet Vince McMahon anyway. “Vince loved me, and two weeks after that, I was given my first contract.”

Truth also expressed that pro wrestling took him on a different route he never expected, and a part of him wishes he started sooner. “[Wrestling] never was my thing, but sometimes you have to take a different route to get to where you’re going!” he stated. “Wrestling was my different route, it saved my life; it got me out of the streets, it taught me decorum, it taught me how to be a man, how to be professional.”

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