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After a sellout European tour, the World Wrestling Federation's top stars in

management boarded a private 757 jet in London to return home.

Every seat on the plane was a first -class seat.

It cost us a lot of money, but it made it more convenient for the talent to

travel.

What was supposed to be a triumphant flight in decadence descended into a

nightmare at 30 ,000 feet.

The party starts when you get on them plates and you just start drinking.

But that night, it was too much.

When you have an open bar and you're sitting there for seven hours, of course

these things are going to happen.

Naked men with robes, guys passing out, drinking, busting each other open,

cutting ponytails off.

Sounds like hell to me.

Like, I just knew, okay, the boys are being boys and I'm not going back there

all. I remember thinking, like, is somebody going to say that this has gone

far?

The talent was just crazy.

I mean, they were great guys, don't get me wrong.

They act like asses.

Children. The mid -air collision between intoxicated wrestlers and a flight crew

determined to prevent an all -out disaster would erupt into one of

most infamous scandals.

I think people have no idea what really goes on sometimes, especially back then

in pro wrestling. And this is just like a capsule of what pro wrestling was like

in that era.

It was just a normal occurrence for a crazy bunch of wrestlers on a plane.

Seems like a crazy story to probably everyone who is watching this outside of

professional wrestlers.

I never talked about the plane ride from hell again in my life.

I would be very happy.

The deal is finalized with WCW.

However, the contract reads Shane McMahon.

By the early 2000s, the WWF is riding a wave of unprecedented success with a

roster of breakout stars and fellow crowds across the world.

Business was going really well for the WWE.

Selling tickets, pay -per -view buy rates. Everybody was making money.

The crowds were there every night you sell a house. Everywhere you go, Europe,

the state, Canada, and everything.

I mean, our show was booming.

During this surge in popularity...

CEO Vince McMahon acquires his competitors WCW and ECW, consolidating

industry's biggest players into an undisputed monopoly of the wrestling

I, Vince McMahon, bought my competition.

The bubble had burst in wrestling. There was literally the WWE, nothing else. If

you want to make a full -time living in professional wrestling, it was the only

place to be.

My name is Tommy Dreamer, and I'm known as the innovator of violence.

It was a much different time. There was holdovers from ECW and WCW, and we're

all just trying to find our way into WWE.

You've got to wonder how long he had been planning this ECW

assault on the WWF.

I'm Jim Ross, and I was the vice president of talent relations.

My job in a nutshell was the overall management of the talents that appeared

television.

The WWF's roster exploded in size and stature by securing talent from their

former rivals while also welcoming back returning legends.

There's the nature boy!

We're partners!

Blair McMahon are partners!

Yeah! Ric Flair's a legend.

So many of our younger guys grew up watching him, idolizing him, and trying

take things from Rick's game and add to theirs.

So, yeah, having Rick in the locker room was a positive thing.

I love my job.

I love helping build that talent roster.

Because I think that having those talents was a great reason, perhaps we

say the only reason, that the business went crazy and blew up.

Everything was getting better.

Millions of dollars.

Thanks to the men and the women that came to work for us on that team.

As the momentum in the States grew, so did the momentum in the UK grow.

In May 2002, the company traveled to Europe for a four -day tour, concluding

with a sold -out pay -per -view event in London.

It's probably one of the best crowds when we go overseas. So we're always

up. We're always looking forward to it. And to be honest, the pay's pretty good

when we go overseas because the crowds are so big. So, yeah, I'd say the morale

was high, and we were stoked to have some good times.

My name is P .J. Polacco, and you may know me as the hardcore icon Justin

Credlin.

Some of the big names on that trip were certainly Stone Cold Steve Austin, The

Undertaker was on the flight, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash.

Brock Lesnar was on the flight, Ric Flair was on the flight, and many

it was a stacked.

It's a long flight, and we thought that by chartering a customized

jet that we were being as talent -friendly as we could.

Unfortunately, it didn't work out well.

My name is Heidi Doyle, and in 2002, I was a flight attendant on the European

charter for the WWE.

I worked for a company called Sports Jet.

It was a private airline that flew many of the different sports teams out of the

Phoenix area, the Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Coyotes. We also flew the Utah

Jazz and the Mariners.

A normal commercial Boeing 757 would have 190 seats, and our flight had 50

leather seats and a bigger carpet than I've ever had in my own house.

There's couches and lounge areas. It's just not a very bad way to travel.

It costs a lot to do it privately, but you also get many benefits. You get to

order your own food. You know what you're going to eat. You know you're all

going to be comfortable.

You know that you don't have to deal with anybody of the general public on

airplane.

You're just amongst the group that's your people.

It's just nice to know that we're not going to offend anyone.

Like sometimes when the boys are on flight and they're a bit obnoxious, it's

kind of like you go, like, oh gosh, are we going to, you know.

Sorry.

Hi, I'm Terry Reynolds, and I was a passenger on the plane ride from hell.

Roll dust along with a woman carrying a cigar.

I remember sitting in the first class section.

I think Jim Ross was up there, Linda, and Ben.

The front had a lounge area, so it was kind of like your first class of the

first class, I guess, of the airplanes. And generally the coaches and the

managers sat up there. And in this case, Vince McMahon and his wife, they were

up there, and then the wrestlers were in the back.

So I was in the back with the majority of the wrestlers.

My responsibility in the very back was getting them their drinks, getting the

meals out to them. They were hungry. They wanted to try all the different

that were on the airplane.

Rick Flair had talked to all of us a lot. He was very chatty and he was kind

like the captain of the team, I would say. He had that kind of feel and he was

very, very nice and personable to us.

He was a little flirty, I think.

99 % of the time we had men. That's who we were working with. You just had to be

aware of getting too comfortable, I think, because that can always just

situation that different people can have different thoughts of the level of

comfortableness.

But on the flight to Europe, there's no problem.

After an uneventful eight -hour flight across the Atlantic, the charter arrives

at its first stop on the tour, Cologne, Germany.

My name is Rob

Van Dam, WWE Hall of Famer and the whole damn show.

It's cool to see how you affect these other cultures, you know, and other

countries. They had some diehard fans, let me tell you. The

Germans were very into the WWE, and it was very, yeah, it was an intense,

enlightening experience, the match was.

Our flight attendants, they were with us almost every day. Some came to the

shows, some were partying at the hotels.

with the wrestlers at the bars.

In the 80s and 90s, these flight attendants, they kind of would party

hang out with you in the back, drink with you.

Hello, I'm Michael Chioda.

Worked for the World Wrestling Entertainment for 35 years.

WWF referee Mike Chioda!

Yeah, you used to go out, meet up with some flight attendants down at the bar.

They might be staying at the same hotel, or you'd go to their hotel on a five

-minute cab ride.

We went downstairs and had drinks when the wrestlers came back from the first

match in Germany.

We chatted a little bit with them that first night.

It was my first trip back to work after having a baby, and I was so enjoying my

time resting in my room and getting to order room service and not have to wake

up at all hours of the night. But I only went to the one match in Germany.

You literally will wrestle in Germany, and the next day you wake up, you're in

Scotland. You wake up the next day, you're in London.

By the time we got to London, usually everybody's really stoked. I remember it

being a Saturday night because that's when the pay -per -view aired

traditionally over there. And it was WWE's pay -per -view insurrection.

The city of London is on fire!

This is insurrection!

It was a packed house, European crowds, lava.

All the tickets to this event sold out in 21 minutes!

I remember the show being solid. The talent seemed to be happy with their

performances.

and they were even more happy to get back on the plane and go home.

Well, I had been away from my daughter for the first time, and I was more than

excited. The excitement to return home is quickly deflated

as the passengers are delivered troubling news.

Everyone took their seats, and we taxied out onto the tarmac, and we got advised

that we were on a weather hold from Connecticut.

When we were told it was a weather delay, I bet we probably all thought

minutes, 40 minutes, an hour top.

Well, we were delayed for seven hours before

the plane takes off.

So we sat on the tarmac a little while.

Commercial airlines, you would all be familiar with the small little mini

bottles. We had just normal bottles.

And the liquor cart ran out of alcohol.

And another liquor cart was ordered at their request.

And that was also drank, so that liquor cart ran out.

And then a third one was ordered.

And how common is it to, like, go through a cart before a plane takes off?

never ever done it ever before and never again.

And we went through three.

Imagine your varsity football team.

They've just won a game, except they can't get out of the parking lot, and

there's cases and cases of beer.

That's what it's like.

A bunch of high school guys.

To say it's high school is really like giving it too much. It's more like fifth

grade. Even though it was their plane, in a sense, we served the drinks still,

but that became not the case.

They started to serve themselves the drinks, and they didn't want our help.

I was very concerned about the cuts being replenished on the ground.

If they were to try to cut us off, we would have gotten to that booze.

Somebody would have.

Flair probably could have thrown a couple thousand dollars at them and

here, take this, we're going to get that liquor. We would have got the liquor.

Absolutely.

I think the relief that they're finally going home was cause for celebration.

They only got a small window now.

They really let their hair down and become stupid.

And that's what a lot of them chose to do.

After spending several grueling hours grounded on the tarmac and indulging in

unlimited supply of alcohol, the passengers aboard WWF's private charter

relieved as the jet is finally cleared for takeoff.

I don't remember how long we've been up in the air before.

It was very, very evident that we had a lot of drunk people.

Oh, shoot. The boys, they can get drunk in one hour.

When you're doing GHB or pills or anything like that, Percocets or

stuff that were around, you can do a lot of damage, period, in one hour.

But it was always booze and pills in the WWE because we had doctor's

prescriptions. And as long as you had a doctor's prescription, it was okay. Of

course, it wasn't because, you know, we'd have doctors write us whatever we

wanted.

Halcyons, GHB, Placidil. Now, the Placidils, I think, were in the early

But I know there was some GHB and Halcyons on the flight. Halcyons were

that we took sometimes just to go to sleep for a long period of time.

And sometimes you use them for a rib too.

Way back in the day, it used to be called H -bombing and it was Halcyon.

I've seen so many guys dropping these H -bombs in the drinks in order to get the

mark to pass out. They shave his head, you know, whatever they do.

Girls, local girls, you know, were put out so the boys could have their way

them while they're out. I mean, this was...

It was kind of normal in some of the places that I've been.

Never leave your drink exposed.

Because the boys think seeing somebody froth at the mouth and slur their

they can't stand up, manage their own faculties. It's funny.

The story was out that Michael got H -bombs. What was his role at that point?

My plays weren't too creative at that point in time.

I don't know if he was officially an agent, a coach, a producer. They've gone

through several names. They all do the same thing.

With the house down in his body. And I don't know what else could have been in

there. He was not himself.

And he made bad decisions.

Bradshaw had gotten split open the night of the pay -per -view.

Oh, yes!

He did!

As Bradshaw is sleeping...

Michael Hayes just knocked him in his head and reopened the wound.

So now JBL is bleeding all over his shirt.

So JBL slapped him and knocked him out.

He knocked out Michael Hayes.

We're alike.

Holy shit.

That I hear like chanting for Xbox.

Xbox was one of the sweetest guys in the world. He really is.

Jay Strong, but we called him the Trailer Hitch.

So he's always following the big load of Hall and Nash.

I want to know what else to get my hands on Austin.

But he wanted to be accepted so badly and proceed as a main event guy.

Michael Hayes had been burying me in the booking meetings.

He's got that ponytail, that mullet.

So as he's out cold, I grabbed that tail and I lifted up my tongue and I just

went whack.

I remember the big pop.

It was like him holding up the title, but he had the ponytail.

Back in the day, you were not allowed to sleep on those flights.

You would end up with a shaved eyebrow.

You always had to have one eye open, so to speak, when you're on a plane full of

the boys.

I had my hat on, my sunglasses, even though it was nighttime.

You had to wear all that stuff because you didn't know who was coming by with

shaving cream.

If somebody went to lift your shades up, you had a chance of waking up. Or take

your hat off, you have a chance of waking up and kicking out real quick.

The roster is especially on guard for any potential hijinks, finding

in the presence of one of the industry's most legendary pranksters.

What else would you expect from Mr.

Perfect? Kurt, boy, you know he's got a rib. He was one of the best ribbers in

the business.

Ribs started happening once Kurt...

came back into the company, Kurt would always play with Brock.

Brock was sitting in his chair and Kurt Henning put

shaving cream on his head.

He went splatted on his head.

Next thing I know, Brock is chasing Kurt like a full sprint, you know, like

wham, wham. Brock went right behind him.

and then Brock just swoops him up.

So now you have Brock Lesnar, who's 6 '4", and he's picking up Kurt Henning,

who's about 6 '4". They went into one row, like a bunch of the guys had to

They would go from one side of the piece of lodge and then into the other, and

the overhead bins got broken, and the tables got broken, and the armrests got

broken off.

Things started to break, yeah, because they're just so big. Like, I do remember

one of the seats, like the middles of the seat came completely off.

And as a safety professional, there's not a damn thing I can do to stop these

two men.

There's not a damn thing I can do to get them to hear my voice.

One of the wrestlers had commandeered our PA.

So in the middle of the fight going on, we have someone yelling into the

airplane, we're going to die, we're all going to die.

So here comes one of the pilots at the back of the airplane trying to get these

two men to stop slamming each other against the fuselage. And they wouldn't

listen to him.

One of our illustrious agents said, you need to come back here.

So I go back there, and they're play fighting.

It's just they're play fighting in the emergency exit room.

Brock picks Kurt up, and then they hit the emergency door.

This was a big boom.

Everyone jumped up, and we're like, stop, stop.

It was their own teammates that finally got to stop because they were scared.

I'm not a mechanical engineer. I don't know what all it takes to pop that

security door.

But I didn't want to find out at 30 ,000 feet above the air.

You have all these people, could you imagine what happens if that door

If you think about it, it's physically impossible to open that door.

They would have no idea of knowing the door couldn't pop out.

They were throwing each other against the fuselage, and if that fuselage

the airplane gets depressurized. Now you're doing an emergency landing, and

where are you going to land if you're over the Atlantic?

The weight and the size that they are of wrestlers, I mean, they could go

through a wall in a house. Why couldn't they go through a wall in an airplane?

Because just the banging, you know, Brock is so big.

He was just a big, solid, big bear is right, man. He was a solid boy, young.

He was getting a big push.

Brock was very new to the business, and he exposed himself to me at the

insurrection pay -per -view like a real dick.

I remember that night I was doing interviews.

and Jackie in a tag team match.

I was backstage.

I hear my name called.

And Brock was in this room.

Dustin was in the room. My ex -husband at the time.

And Brock did the whole thing.

I no -sold it. Went to my dressing room. Dustin came in. He's like, don't sell

it. I'm like, I'm not selling it. I didn't sell it. Not gonna.

In other words, let it lie. Leave it alone.

I had complaints about Brock Ledger's behavior on the plane.

But I don't recall any advances or reported advances from

Brock to Terry Reynolds.

Could it have happened? Of course it could have happened.

It could have happened.

I did my job to the best of my ability to look out for the talent.

I can't follow everybody around.

to see if they're acting like an adult.

That should not be my job.

It really shouldn't.

After the terrifying brawl at 30 ,000 feet, the passengers try to settle in as

the WWF roster is due to perform on live television the following day.

We've got TV tomorrow.

You know, it's like, let's get some rest now.

I'm leaning against the window, you know, sleeping.

And all of a sudden, I hear this very familiar voice.

And Dustin, my ex -husband, starts singing a David Allen Coe song

called Pledging My Love.

Forever, my darling, my love will be true.

Always and forever, I'll love only you.

I immediately am like...

Mortified. Everyone that's just drifted off to sleep is now woken up by, yeah.

I was about to get up and go back there and tell him to stop.

But Polly was across the aisle, and he looked at me. He's like,

don't tell it. Don't tell it.

So I left it alone.

It seems like whenever somebody does something to you, people say don't tell

Don't tell it.

Because that's just the smartest way to deal with our business.

Don't tell her.

If Dustin could sing, it would have made it a little bit easier.

But he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.

I did not like his behavior.

I generally felt for the guy in the sense he was obviously hurting, you

That pain was real.

No, I don't like to see anyone hurting like that.

However, he still should have given me my microphone back.

It got uncomfortable.

It got uncomfortable.

Like, you know, J .R. had to stop that.

You know, he literally went up to Dustin and said, Set your ass down.

Go to sleep.

You know, give us all a break.

Eventually he passed out. That's how we got our PA back.

He fell asleep, and I got the microphone from him.

If I was a flight attendant, to be on that flight that night would have been

probably one of the worst experiences of my career.

Some young ladies just trying to do their job and just trying to get home.

You know, I could imagine it being very disheartening for them and scary in some

ways, I'm sure.

Hours into the flight, the midair chaos shows no signs of slowing down.

There's another situation that occurred with Ric Flair for me that was very

uncomfortable.

Sometimes as a joke, Ric Flair.

He would put on his robe, not wear anything else, and walk that aisle like

Flair and then open it up and woo.

That's the big high spot. Everyone wanted to see Ric coming out naked in

robe, so he did it on the airplane for everybody. And that's what the guys want

to see. That's what makes them laugh.

He could move his hips and twirl it, and so his well -endowed penis

spins around like a helicopter.

So, hey, he's the nature boy for a reason. He's got a hammer on him.

He's the life of the party.

And if you know him, you know where to exit the party and

go to your own safe place.

Or you don't know the rules and you find yourself in deep water.

And that may have happened.

And I was in the galley.

The galleys were our little kitchen area on an airplane.

Rick Fleur was naked in a cape only, and then he decided to come back to the

galley to get a coke, and then he wouldn't leave the galley.

He had me back against the back door, and I couldn't move.

I couldn't get away from him. I couldn't move.

He was spitting around his penis, and he wanted me to touch it, and he took my

hand. And put it on him.

Ric Flair is not going to try to impose by force any sexual stuff on

to anybody.

He's just flaunting the style and profile and doing like the Ric Flair

where everybody's going to laugh about it.

But obviously someone took offense to it.

I remember him crowding the flight attendant, like in the aisle way back

by the bathroom where it's like real skinny and you can't fit two people

there and stuff. I remember him like crowding her and, you know, trying to

her touch him and stuff.

And he kept me back there for, I don't know how long, but it felt like a really

long time. It wasn't short, like it was minutes.

And I asked him to please stop and he didn't, he wouldn't.

I don't remember somebody really helping me except for one, I believe, Gold

Dust, who had the mic.

I do believe he told Rick Flair he should leave me alone eventually.

He should leave me alone.

And maybe that's why I didn't get as angry about the mic as maybe I should

I think he did try to help me, and he was the only one that did.

Let's talk about Scott Hall for a second. What's his state at this point?

Scott's issues have been well documented.

He's documented.

He had issues with substance abuse.

We were not doing him any favors putting him back on the road so he could resume

his routines.

We didn't do him justice.

But we didn't know how bad it was.

And for those that think we should have known, well...

We didn't.

You don't know until you see it.

You interact with it.

We weren't quite close to landing.

And I came to Scott Hall, who had just woken up.

I had offered him breakfast, and he grabbed my shirt and

pulled me down, and my shirt buttons got ripped.

And he had told me what he was going to do to me.

Do you remember what he said?

He said a number of things, but other what I do remember is as my shirt

he told me he was going to lick me.

And then he proceeded to try to do that, which... I don't want to say scary

because that might sound too dramatic, but it was a moment of great...

..violation, discomfort to have a person put

their hands on you without you wanting them to do that and to not let go when

you ask them to.

And to create a level of fear when you're there to do a job, and you're

your job, and now you have to be afraid that you're going to get hurt.

It didn't feel to me that he was going to let go anytime soon.

And then he passed out.

And I was able to, you know, dislodge him from me.

I think that Kurt age -bombed me.

Because I've been taking pills and drinking for a lot of years at that

and I was out.

After that happened with Scott Hall, I never left the galley.

I didn't serve anyone.

And they got angry at me for that. They wanted more food and drinks, and I was

done. I didn't come out of the galley again.

After spending a total of 14 nightmarish hours on the plane, the weary

passengers and crew finally touched down on American soil.

When they landed and I heard the door open,

Yeah. It was a very, very excellent feeling to not be over the Atlantic

And it was a long flight. It was a very long flight.

The plane was trashed.

Blankets, pillows, drinks, cups, food stepped on.

In a normal flight, they're passing by three or four times with trash bags and

this and that.

Well, this wasn't a normal flight, so I think Scott was passed out. I think they

were actually worried he was dead, you know.

So they were all stressed, like they got a dead person on this flight now, and

like, oh, boy, don't worry, he'll kick out. You know, it's like, he'll kick

He wouldn't wake up.

So I'm picking him up, and I had to get him a wheelchair and literally take him

through customs myself.

I put the sunglasses on him, laid him there, and he's just kind of, you know.

I had to get his passport, had to say that he had some kind of condition.

And there I am wheeling Razor through, you know, customs.

And there's Jim Ross.

He had the black hat on and just looking at me with disgust. And I'm like, I'm

here. I'm wheeling him.

I didn't do anything.

Once we landed, Michael Hayes woke up and his ponytail was missing.

And Michael Hayes was pissed off about it.

He was hell -bent to find out who did it. You know who did it, you know who

it. Would have fought the entire plane if he could have.

He was really angry.

He was really angry.

And when we landed, we started to pick up the airplane, and there was vomit,

there was blood.

There was syringes found in seat back pockets in other places.

And I'm going, oh, no, we're not cleaning this airplane.

We're going to get off right now.

And my superior is saying, no, you need to clean the airplane.

Me just walking off the airplane.

That happened on Delta or American or whatever.

When we got back to the States, the FBI would have been waiting on us.

They should have been more repercussions, for sure. They should

some... I don't know. They did have repercussions. I learned later, but...

were only, I think, because they knew they had to do something, you know.

It didn't look real good for Vince McMahon's organization, I don't think.

For better or for worse, I'm taking ownership.

But it was a... It was a black eye.

Good thing about a black eye.

You heal.

Shortly after landing, Vince McMahon and Jim Ross urgently meet to discuss

repercussions for the flight's most egregious acts.

I just couldn't believe everything was getting out of control with Vince on the

flight. But it did. It got out of control.

I don't know. I don't know what Vince was doing during this whole time.

I wonder what.

Vince was well aware of it.

But it was my job to handle.

That's why I'm still embarrassed about it this very day.

It was my job.

Two -hand them.

Vince McMahon makes the decisions, but Jim Ross is the one who has to execute

them. Jim Ross is the guy who has to fire you as well.

Jim Ross is the guy who has to tell you, hey, you're messing up. He's the guy

who has to fine you.

That's that position.

It wasn't a tough decision on my part to cut some guys from the roster because

that's what Vince McMahon told me to do.

And the guy that writes the checks has the last say.

I was troubled by Kirk firing.

I just thought he had a bad night with the boys.

He had a reputation of becoming a practical joker, and Vince had enough of

And you kind of figure maybe, okay, Kirk got fired, but then he's going to come

back and circle his way around at some point, which he would have, I'm sure.

But he passed away not too far after that.

And Razor, I think it was just his drug addiction that kind of made me, His

career kind of slipped away there.

We let Scott go within hours after he got back to the States.

I was told to cut him now.

And so I called him at home and, you know, I just said, I think we made a

mistake. You're not ready to get back on the road.

And until you're better suited to handle your demons, we need to put you back in

your comfort zone, which meant at home primarily.

Dustin Rhodes is one of my favorite people in the world.

We go back a long way.

I don't know if it was just the rebound of his divorce with Terry, what it was,

but he was in a tough place.

But no excuse.

So, you know, he was dipping his snuff and using the seat back cushion as a

spittoon.

I had two options.

Find him, then I'll get his attention.

Or firing.

Which I thought was extreme and did not need to happen.

That was my call.

He learned from his mistakes.

He was immature.

He had substance abuse issues.

And sometimes he controlled them and sometimes he didn't.

But the bottom line is that we have to stop in our society letting other

transgressions go without punishment.

How did that Ric Flair evade any sort of suspension or anything like that?

Good question.

I guess, to lack of a better term, he was a made man.

And he was such a high -level made man that he got a pass.

Was it the right thing to do? I don't know.

You're listening to it, folks. You decide.

You got to pass.

As the WWF deals with the fallout from the flight, Heidi is forced to consider

her next steps.

I remember walking off the airplane on the tarmac, and we went to a hotel that

was quite nearby and talking about how horrible, like, and the girl from the

front saying, They didn't know that it was that bad.

And then I just went to my hotel room and I took a shower and I cried.

I called Sportsjet. They said it was unfortunate that that had occurred on

airplane. They preferred that we kept it to ourselves, the story, because we

work with professional athletes and things happen on airplanes.

And they let us know that it was expected that we would respect the

our clients.

So then you have to figure out how you tell your husband, how was your trip?

Well, it wasn't excellent.

What do you tell your husband?

It can even create situations where they say, well, why did that happen to you?

Or what did you do to make them do that to you?

And I would say that might be the worst question you could ever ask somebody

who's been hurt.

Because you already feel a sense of, what did I do? Did I smile?

Was I too nice to him?

And then you feel almost like you've done something wrong.

When I hadn't.

But I know another girl, there was another girl on the flight that was very

upset about things that had, similar things that had occurred to her.

She went to a lawyer and then she contacted me and said I should do that

well.

If I filed a lawsuit for every time something like that happened to me, dear

God. I would be in court for all my adult life. My sense of it was

that the company wanted to address this matter,

take it off our books, do the right thing by those

that had complaints, and then move on.

There was an agreement that was reached, and they offered us a settlement.

My husband just didn't want the story told to the public, maybe just to

our daughter or him. I don't know.

So he was very, very supportive of the settlement.

It's sad that money has to be that compensation.

I think definitely truth and honesty and change is more powerful, but money is

what ends up on the table, I think.

And then it also buys you silence, which then can add to another layer of the

guilt of a victim.

It can be a cycle that's not good, yeah, perpetually bad.

If that's how she felt, maybe she should have not taken a payout and went to the

fullest extent of the law to then truly put this heinous person in jail.

My opinion.

People have their own opinions of what happened, what the damage was. No one

should really have a bad opinion when it didn't happen to them, but they do.

It's like, you know, it wasn't that bad. You're okay, aren't you?

And now you have to live with a pain or a memory of something that you didn't

bring about. And that takes some work.

After the exhausting European tour, wrestlers and management report for a

taping of Monday Night Raw a mere 24 hours after the plane touchdown in

Connecticut. We had TV that day.

Monday. Of course, the talents.

AJR. AJR.

What?

Did you see what they did to Hayes' ponytail?

No. What?

Michael Hayes' ponytail was put into a sandwich bag that was taped to the

room door at Raw Monday.

Until I saw it.

And I took it down and threw it away.

Exposure of these scandalous events would mark a turning point for the WWF,

propelling it to rein in the public antics of its performers.

In a symbolic twist of fate, the aftermath of the infamous plane ride

coincided on the same day the company was legally forced to rebrand its

identity.

The young talents coming in the business after that era heard all the stories,

saw the remnants.

Saw guys that had made millions of dollars not have two quarters rubbed

together.

And I think they learned from their predecessors.

Nice job.

It's a different culture.

It's a different era.

I think that's the upshot.

And maybe good news, that incidents like the plane ride from hell smartened some

of these younger kids up.

I want to be in the wrestling business. I've always idolized this guy. But I do

know I'm not going to pattern some of my career after this guy.

You make good choices that way.

I think that there's definitely a sense of that cliche, never meet your heroes.

The people who have watched for generations and got them through their

I don't think that they all need to see Ric Flair doing the helicopter with his

penis. Like, I don't really think it's good for everybody to know this about

their heroes, you know? Some of these guys are freaks.

I feel this is trying to portray someone as this sexual predator, and it's not.

It's a joke, it's a gag.

And today, 1 ,000 %...

My hairstyle is inappropriate right now. I am somehow offending someone right

now with my double ponytail. How dare I have two ponytails? And my answer is I'm

50 years old. I'm happy I have hair.

But if you're asking me, I've hung out with Ric Flair. I've never seen him try

to force his will against anybody.

I don't feel that his intent was to rape me.

But what he did was wrong. It was wrong.

He goes to sleep that night and thinks he made it back from his wrestling trip

in Europe and maybe he has a headache because he had too many cocktails on the

airplane.

And yet, that night I didn't go to sleep.

My trip to work, my trip to get money to support my daughter becomes a memory

that is mine forever to live with. Like, I get to live with the fact that I had

to see a naked man and get my face licked by a man that I was there to make

he got from point A to point B safe.

And they went to sleep in five.

They made it home safe and sound and so goes on the world, you know.

I was uncomfortable coming to talk about this.

You see some stories get told and then people get ridiculed or everything

apart as what they did wrong when they're just telling the story.

But if one person that listens to this says, oh my gosh, I might have acted

that towards somebody and I didn't even realize I did it.

Or if one person hears it, they had something happen to them.

that they didn't like it and they didn't feel they could speak about it because

they'd get in trouble or they were made to feel that they created the situation

and might have made it happen.

Like if it could change it for one person, I'd sit and have this

times again.

The truth can be scary and the truth can be ugly and messy, but at the end of

the day, the truth is the thing that makes us better.