Personal Life
Matthews is left-handed. He has been married to Christina Beddoes since November 1986. They have three sons: Daniel, Dane, and Bailey. His actual accent (broad Lancashire) is very different from the one he uses on television; one closer to Received pronunciation. He has a tattoo on his left leg which says "Made In England" and a rose with his wife's name on his left arm. Matthews participated in an episode of The Weakest Link, winning two of the first three rounds and eventually finishing third. In the final three he was up against husband and wife Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. His pets include two snakes, eight lizards, a tortoise, three cats, and two dogs. He humorously claims the reason he owns so many pets is because "Humans disgust me. Vile creatures".
In 2003, Matthews was misdiagnosed with what was in fact a heart defect which meant the right side of his heart was beating out of sequence with the left. This allowed large volumes of fluid to build in his body. After undergoing specialist treatment which involved stopping his heart and months of anti-blood clot treatments, he returned to wrestling in April 2004. During his illness and recovery he put on, and then lost, 40 pounds in weight.
While in WCW, he was arrested during a flight from Japan back to the United States when he got drunk and urinated on a stewardess. By Matthews' account in his book, he claims that he was so drunk that he could not remember the incident and woke up in a cell in Anchorage, Alaska. On 30 August 2007, Sports Illustrated named Matthews, along with nine other superstars, found to be given illegal steroids not in compliance with the WWE Talent Wellness program. Matthews received stanozolol, somatropin, genotropin, and anastrozole between November 2004 and November 2006.
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