Jerry Lawler Provides Update On His Recovery From Stroke, Says His Voice Is Slowly Coming Back

Jerry Lawler discusses his progress in his recovery.

Jerry Lawler discusses his progress in his recovery.

In February, WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler suffered a stroke, and he was hospitalized. Lawler was expected to make a full recovery.

Speaking with Bill Apter for Sportskeeda WrestleBinge, Lawler was asked about how he has been progressing.

“I’ve had a bunch of different things done, and I’m still in rehab three times a week. Probably the main thing that’s drawing me back now, that you can probably tell as you hear me talk, my voice is not the same as it was beforehand. It’s slowly coming back, but I need it to come back a little before I can make sense with my speech and vocabulary,” Lawler said.

Lawler was then asked to describe his rehab routine. He detailed how he has primarily been working on his speech, and the sessions have been helping him improve his vocabulary. Lawler also noted that he could barely speak when he started rehab.

“One is speech. That’s my main one. That’s three times a week. When I just started this, right after I had the stroke, I’ve could barely talk. Now I go in and I sit down with this rehab lady, and we just talk about different things. She had me read stuff, and all this stuff has just helped me, day in, day out, with getting my vocabulary better,” he said.

Lawler subsequently noted that he does not have good control of his handwriting, as the right side of his body remains affected in the aftermath of the stroke. He stated that his handwriting has taken a while to come back to him.

“My right arm and my right leg and everything on my right side of the body is still, it’s not hurt me where I can’t walk around. I can still walk around, but I don’t have really good control of writing my autograph. I can write my autograph pretty good, but I’ve been so proud of my autograph and artistic ability, but that’s all sort of taken a while to come back,” Lawler said.

Lawler appeared in front of the live crowd at the August 28 episode of WWE Raw. More information is available here.

Jim Ross recently stated that Lawler needs a knee replacement. Check out his comments here.

Fightful wishes Lawler well in his recovery, and we will provide more information as it becomes available. 

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