Personal Life
Hennigan is from Los Angeles, California. He has two sisters and grew up in Palos Verdes, where he attended high school. He graduated from the University of California, Davis in 2002. Hennigan cites Shawn Michaels, Randy Savage, and Curt Hennig as his favorite wrestlers.
Hennigan was in a long-term relationship with Melina Perez, his former on screen manager,. They have an off and on relationship. The pair met during auditions for Tough Enough III, although she did not make the show. Hennigan is good friends with fellow professional wrestlers Randy Orton and Matt Cappotelli.
Articles posted by Sports Illustrated, the New York Daily News, and The Washington Post during the weekend of August 30, 2007, named Hennigan as one of a number of WWE superstars to have purchased pharmaceuticals from an online pharmacy, a violation of the Talent Wellness program. Specifically, Hennigan received somatropin, anastrozole, testosterone, stanozolol, and chorionic gonadotropin between June 2006 and February 2007, which is after the "no drugs from online sources" rule was instituted. As a result of the infraction, Hennigan was suspended for thirty days.
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