VINCE RUSSO has claimed that women “could not say no” to controversial WWE co-founder Vince McMahon.
The WWE writer admitted that the females would say “yes” to McMahon when it came to highly sexualised storylines in the ring.
McMahon, 79, was recently the subject of a Netflix documentary and has been accused of sexual assault, trafficking and physical abuse in a lawsuit.
He has refuted the claims as a “vindictive distortion of the truth” and “lies”.
Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Russo said: “When I was writing, what the Attitude Era was all about, Piers, was blue collar versus white collar.
“That’s what it was all about. Stone Cold Steve Austin, Vince McMahon. Austin was telling McMahon every single thing a blue collar would want to tell his boss.
“Well, when I left, all of a sudden there was a shift and that shift was all of a sudden Vince is on camera with all these beautiful women, making out with them, kissing them, groping them. They are groping him.
“Now, Piers, you gotta understand something, and everybody here will understand this, as a writer I could have never written any of our female characters in that position because they couldn’t have said ‘no’.
“They would have had to say ‘yes’ because it was with Vince McMahon and they would have thought if they didn’t do this, they were going to be fired.
“So when I saw this type of behaviour, after I left, it never sat well with me. Now, I don’t know if that came from Vince or the writers.
“But like I said, he put all those females in a situation where they could not say no because they felt like their job was on the line.”
Ex-WWE announcer Charley Arnolt has insisted that she was never mistreated in the business.
However, she did admit that in WWE, people need a “thick skin”.
She added that some people “probably put their own self-respect on the backburn” as people also wanted to get good feedback from the “boss of all bosses”.
During the episode of Uncensored the likes of wrestlers Maven Haffman and Jonathan ‘Coach’ Coachman hit out a New York Post reporter.
The pair slammed journalist Phil Mushnik for his investigations into the WWE world.
They also challenged his long-running scathing momentary of McMahon.
Mushnik defended his record and also revealed that he warned Donald Trump about aligning himself with the WWE co-founder.
He said: “On two occasions, I called Donald, who I’ve known for years.
“I called him and I said ‘Donald, I have four boxes, I will deliver them to you, I’ll get a truck and I’ll deliver them to you, with all the Fedex records of the steroids and the opioids delivered to McMahon, the wrestlers. You don’t want to be involved in this?’
“He is the smartest man on earth! He said, ‘don’t you worry about it, I’m going to give the money to charity’.”
But Mushnik said he never saw him giving the million dollars promised to charity.
