Chris Jericho and the rest of the world for that matter have clearly heard about WWE’s Board of Directors investigating Vince McMahon over several hush payments made to former WWE employees.
In yet another another bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal that dropped this past Friday, it was revealed that WWE’s Board of Directors is investigating claims that Vince McMahon paid $12 million to four women over the past 16 years. This comes in addition to the initial report that McMahon paid a former paralegal a $3 million hush payment.
One of the hush payments was made to a former WWE Diva for $7.5 million. That wrestler was coerced into performing oral sex on Vince and then wound up being demoted and fired when she refused to do anything else.
Prior to the latest allegations surfacing, AEW star Chris Jericho appeared on the “True Geordie” to discuss the initial report.
According to the “Wizard” himself, he wasn’t surprised by the allegations. Additionally, he commented on Vince McMahon continuing to appear on television in recent weeks.
On if he was surprised by the allegations: “Not really. Is it a surprise in any industry when it happens? When you look at it, it’s really not illegal. He had an affair, paid the lady off to not say anything, and moved on. It’s almost like, ‘Okay, and?’ People want to jump on it but there is still always an undertone of ‘it’s wrestling. Oh, it’s just wrestling,’ If you look, that story came out with a bang, and then you really haven’t heard anything about it since. If this was Hollywood, with Harvey Weinstein, that sort of thing…the difference between that is, he was holding women back for getting gigs, Harvey Weinstein. ‘Either bang me or you don’t get the starring role.’ This has never been said in Vince’s thing. It was a mutual acknowledgement of the affair, he paid the lady to say nothing, and she took the money. I really know Vince well and it sucks that happened, it sucks that he did it, but is anything really going to happen from it? I don’t think so.”
On McMahon’s appearances on TV since the initial report: “That’s Vince McMahon. I think it’ll come and go. Is it morally right? Absolutely not. Is it illegal? No. Is it something that is going to get him into real trouble? I don’t think so. Once again, unfortunately, ‘Oh, it’s just Vince McMahon, it’s just wrestling, of course he’s going to do that.’ Those things come and go, they happen, it’s too bad, but I really think it doesn’t matter in the long run. Six months from now, I’ll either be right or I’ll be wrong.”
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