Netflix’s new docu-series about disgraced former WWE chairman Vince McMahon makes plenty of startling revelations over six episodes, but one of the most shocking moments involves the longtime pro wrestling promoter and his daughter Stephanie McMahon.
During an episode about his family’s involvement with WWE’s on-screen characters, McMahon, 79, at one point admits to Netflix producers that he wrote a storyline that involved impregnating his own daughter.
“So one of my ideas in the story was to get Stephanie pregnant, and I think I was the one who impregnated her — my character,” McMahon says in the documentaries released this week. “I think there was something like that and it was like ‘No.’ That one failed.”
The shocking moment comes in the show’s fifth episode as the documentary illustrates just how far McMahon pushed wrestlers to do controversial storylines during what was known as WWE’s “Attitude Era” in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During the scene, Netflix producers ask several former WWE wrestlers if they’ve ever experienced situations with McMahon where he wrote a controversial script and thought “this is too far.”
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Vince and Stephanie McMahon.
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“Yeah, there’s been a couple, but I’m not going to say one,” Stephanie laughs when asked. Stephanie’s real-life husband Paul “Triple H” Levesque, who has also played her on-screen love since the late ’90s, also laughs at the question. “That [there were]and then Vince would still make me do it,” he says.
Throughout the Netflix series, current and former WWE employees talk about what it was like to work with McMahon and describe how there was an unspoken pressure to say yes to everything McMahon asked them to do – both on and off screen.
“There was a little bit of concern among the performers that you would be punished if you didn’t do what you were asked to do, and yes, that happened occasionally to some…sometimes,” former WWE Women’s Champion and WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus says, pointing at himself and nodding in recognition towards the camera.
Stratus then points to a situation where one week she said no to McMahon’s idea to kiss another female wrestler during a televised segment. The very next week, Stratus says, according to the script, she lost the championship to another wrestler. “Maybe I was punished, I’m not sure,” she laughs, raising an eyebrow at the camera again.
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Stephanie McMahon.
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McMahon first resigned as WWE Chairman in June 2022 due to allegations of sexual harassment and announced his retirement after a month, only to return six months later and return as WWE Chairman.
The longtime WWE chairman then sold most of his stake in the company during a merger with the UFC in September 2023. McMahon resigned again as head of WWE amid new allegations made in a January 2024 lawsuit filed by a former employee who had has accused other employees, including wrestlers, of sexually abusing, harassing and trafficking her.
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McMahon denied the allegations and refused to continue appearing in interviews that Netflix conducted with him for its new documentary after the lawsuit was filed in January 2024. Earlier this week, McMahon strongly condemned the documentary, claiming it was “misleading” and “deceptive.” .
The lawsuit is currently pending as the US Department of Justice investigates McMahon and several allegations of sexual misconduct filed against him, ABC News reports.
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