William Regal has said he isn’t to blame for a 1997 flight being grounded despite being arrested for his actions on the vessel.
Twenty five years ago, Regal was on a flight from Tokyo to Detroit for an episode of WCW Monday Nitro which was grounded after he urinated on a flight attendant.
Regal, who was struggling with substance abuse issues at the time, woke up in a jail in Alaska and was charged with public disturbance and public urination.
Speaking on his Gentleman Villain podcast, the AEW star said the situation was embarrassing but he was not the worst person on board:
“I took some pills. I went to the toilet. The door was one of those old kinds of fashion planes with a concertina door. I stood there and my foot was stopping the door shutting. I hadn’t locked the door. A stewardess came behind me and said, ‘Excuse me, sir.’ I turned around and nothing funny or clever about it, I peed on the lady’s foot. They landed the plane and I woke up in a jail cell in Alaska. I wasn’t the only person on that plane. I wasn’t the reason that they landed that plane.
“There was a paparazzi guy in the back who flipped out and started punching people. That was the reason they landed that and they just threw me off. I’m not going to incriminate anyone, but they threw a couple of other wrestlers off because they were doing things as well. They were like me. They won’t have any idea what they were doing. But I do know what they were doing because WCW investigated this and I found out what they were doing. They got away with it. I didn’t. Soon as this went to court, this lady said, ‘No, he wasn’t doing anything malicious. It was just a drunken incident.’”
Regal would eventually clean up his act and would spend over 20 years with WWE before his release earlier this year.
He has since joined AEW as part of the Blackpool Combat Club.
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