Vince McMahon, the controversial co-founder and former chairman of WWE, is well known for suggesting insane storylines.
Whether it be suggesting Jon Moxley take a shot at good friend Roman Reigns’ battle with Leukemia, wanting to call World’s Strongest Man Mark Henry the ‘Silverback’ (aka Gorilla), and his many, many, many suggestions of incest storylines.
One of these suggestions, shockingly, came in the form of McMahon suggesting an incestuous storyline involving himself and his daughter, Stephanie.
(L-R) Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, and her husband Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque (Jeff Bottari via Getty Images)
Both Vince and Stephanie were on screen characters, often playing ‘heels’, villainous characters who represented the establishment of the company.
When Stephanie actually got pregnant, Vince pitched a storyline in which there was uncertainty around who the father was, only for it to be revealed that it was… him?
This was discussed in the new Netflix documentary Mr McMahon, which details the life of the deeply controversial former chairman.
After Stephanie initially refused to discuss the mooted storyline, Vince chimed in saying:
“One of my storyline ideas was that Stephanie gets pregnant. I think…I was the one who impregnated her. My character. I think it was something like that. It was like, ‘No.’ That one didn’t make it”.
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Stephanie went on to say in the documentary:
“When I was younger in my career, I was all on board to do whatever he wanted. I look back on some of the stuff I did and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I did that.’
“Yeah, for sure. Yeah, sometimes, I thought it was a little bit weird, but it was a different time in our business.”
The documentary includes McMahon responding for the first time to an allegation of rape made against him from the 80s.
Rita Chatterton, who was the first female referee in the WWF, the predecessor to the WWE, accused McMahon of sexual assault, saying:
“When I couldn’t complete his desires he got really angry with me and and started ripping off my jeans.
“He pulled me on top of him and told me again if I wanted a half-a-million dollar a year contract I had to satisfy him and if I didn’t satisfy him I was blackballed.
“My wrist was all black and blue, he didn’t stop.”
McMahon responded by calling it an accusation of rape that ‘didn’t happen’, saying: “Once you’re accused of rape, you’re a rapist.
“But, it was consensual and actually had it been a rape, the statute of limitations had run out so I mean it’s all kind of crap like that people are digging up and trying to find something on you”.
Despite him responding to this issue, his remaining interviews for the documentary were cancelled when news broke that he was being sued by former employee Janel Grant for sexual misconduct and sex trafficking, and he does not respond in the documentary.
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Vince McMahon has addressed the alleged rape of a female WWE referee Rita Chatterton in the new Netflix documentary Mr McMahon.
Chatterton accused McMahon of raping her in 1986, after working at the company since 1984 as their first female referee.
She came out publicly about this in 1992.
She alleged that the WWE co-founder and former chairman had sexually assaulted her, forcing her into performing oral sex on him.
McMahon has once again become embroiled in controversy (Ethan Miller via Getty Images)
Her accusations came following the expiry of the statute of limitations.
The statute of limitations is the amount of time a victim has to come forward in which legal charges can still be brought forward, and it varies from state to state in America.
In this case, its expiration meant criminal charges could not be brought against McMahon.
McMahon has always denied the allegation from Chatterton, though a multi-million dollar settlement was made with her in early 2023.
McMahon’s lawyers said this was ‘to avoid the cost of litigation’ and reiterated his denial of the allegations.
Chatterton was the first female WWE referee (Netflix)
Whilst he has previously made statements via his lawyer, this is a rare comment from McMahon on accusations against him.
Discussing the allegations, McMahon said:
“When you’re accused of this and accused of that there is like this deluge of things, you’re this you’re that.
“One of the things was an alleged rape that never happened.”
The Netflix documentary then played an interview clip of Chatterton in ’86 detailing that she was ‘forced into oral sex’ by McMahon.
She said: “When I couldn’t complete his desires he got really angry with me and and started ripping off my jeans.
“He pulled me on top of him and told me again if I wanted a half-a-million dollar a year contract I had to satisfy him and if I didn’t satisfy him I was blackballed.
“My wrist was all black and blue, he didn’t stop.”
McMahon went on to say: “Once you’re accused of rape, you’re a rapist. But, it was consensual and actually had it been a rape, the statute of limitations had run out so I mean it’s all kind of crap like that people are digging up and trying to find something on you”.
Chatterton’s accusation re-emerged earlier this year as part of subpoena by federal agents investigating payoffs by McMahon that may have broken the law.
This came following a lawsuit by Janel Grant of Vince McMahon, WWE, and John Laurinitis, who worked as an executive at WWE.
Her lawsuit alleges the duo sexually assaulted her and engaged in sex trafficking.
Both have denied the allegations.
McMahon has been critical of the documentary Mr McMahon, which he took part in, calling it ‘deceptive’.
The mini-series released today, and chronicles his life and story, as well as addressing the various allegations and scandals McMahon has become embroiled in.
LADbible has reached out to MacMahon’s representatives for comment.
