The horrible storyline was pitched by Vince
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.
