Last January, Vince McMahon, John Laurinaitis, and WWE were sued by a former employee, Janel Grant. The lawsuit widely detailed McMahon’s abusive relationship with Grant. However, the former Executive Chairman of TKO denied the allegation.
Over the years, Vince McMahon has had a great relationship with the company’s top talents. Most of them look up to McMahon as a father figure. Therefore, the lawsuit shocked superstars such as Becky Lynch.
After WrestleMania 35, Becky Lynch became a huge female star in the modern era. Vince McMahon is one of the major reasons why she became a top talent in the company.
In an interview with Irish Independent, Becky Lynch was asked if she could reconcile with McMahon’s two sides.
“I don’t know that person, you know what I mean? That’s been hard for me. We didn’t always see eye-to-eye, but especially in my last run with him there, and when I told him I was pregnant, he was so good to me. Apart from the run-ins — but you have run-ins in every relationship, especially at that level — I only ever had a wonderful experience in WWE with Vince [McMahon], for the most part.”
Becky stated that it’s hard to imagine that McMahon has two sides.
“So it’s very hard to reconcile that somebody else didn’t have that experience and that other women didn’t have that experience. Especially when I had him to thank for my dream, for my husband [Seth Rollins], for my daughter, for the life that I have now. It’s hard to see those two different people in my head, and trying to merge them as one becomes very difficult. You’re reading these horrific allegations, but about somebody that you look up to as very much, almost like a father figure.”
The former women’s champion added that she hasn’t had any negative interactions with McMahon.
“So you have to listen to these things, and that becomes very difficult because you’ve had no [negative] experience and you want everybody to have the experience that you’ve had because I would always love my interactions with him, and that becomes very, very difficult, especially as a woman who has been so driven in changing the way that women are treated in wrestling and making sure that it is a safe space, that we are seen as athletes, that we are taken seriously, that we are appreciated for our minds, for our body of work, and for what we do in the ring.”