Kevin Fertig (Mordecai) Credits WWE Rehab Program For Saving His Life, ‘I Called After Resenting Them For 15 Years’

Kevin Fertig portrayed Mordecai and Kevin Thorn on WWE TV, though neither gimmick had much staying power.

Mordecai had major hype behind him with multiple vignettes leading to his debut, but the character was quickly dropped. Thorn was a vampire in the ECW rebrand, and though it got some traction, it was ultimately dropped.

He was released by the company in 2009, at his request, and by his own admission spent years resenting the promotion. Despite his issues with the company, they were there for him when he needed them in 2025.

“I spent probably 15 years pissed off, hated WWE, depressed and all this stuff,” Fertig told So Cal Val on The Velvet Ropes (via WrestlingNewsCo). “I made a phone call to them, and I went in the rehab program, and they saved my life. Everything with that is, as much as I hate them, as much resentment as I had for them, they saved my life, and I wouldn’t be here today. You have all this resentment, and all these would have, should have, could haves, and at the end of the day, a lot of it was me. And I’ve come to figure that out, and I’m a lot better off from that.

“They gave me the tools graciously, because I didn’t deserve them. As big of a d*ck as I was for the last 15 years of resenting them, I didn’t deserve it, and they sent me, got me cleaned up and got me back better than I ever have been.”

Fertig says he no longer has resentment towards wrestling, and it’s led him to where he is today.