Vince McMahon says he wrote a fake WWE storyline about impregnating a daughter

Netflix's new docuseries about disgraced former WWE chairman Vince McMahon contains many eye-opening revelations throughout its six episodes, but one of the most shocking moments involves the longtime professional wrestling promoter and his daughter Stephanie McMahon.

At one point, during an episode focused on his family's involvement as on-screen WWE characters, McMahon, 79, admits to Netflix producers that he wrote a storyline centered around his own daughter to get pregnant.

“So one of my storyline ideas was that Stephanie gets pregnant, and I think I was the one who got her pregnant – my character,” McMahon says in the docuseries, released this week. “I think it was something like that and it was like, 'No.' He didn’t make it.”

The shocking moment comes in the show's fifth episode as the documentary shows just how far McMahon pushed wrestlers into controversial storylines during WWE's so-called “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 they thought, “This is going too far.”

“Yes, there were a few, but I won’t tell that one,” Stephanie laughs as she asks the question.

Stephanie's real-life husband Paul “Triple H” Levesque, who has played her on-screen love interest since the late '90s, also laughs at the question. “Yes [there were]and then Vince would still force me to do it,” he says.

Throughout the Netflix series, current and former WWE employees talk about what it was like working with McMahon and describe how there was an unspoken pressure to say “yes” to everything McMahon asked of them – both on the Screen and off screen.

“There was a little bit of concern among the performers that if you don't do what's asked of you, you're going to be punished, and yes, that's happened to some of them…sometimes,” said the former WWE Women's Champion and WWE Hall of Famer Wrestler Trish Stratus says, pointing to herself and nodding approvingly at the camera.

Stratus then points out a situation where one day she said no to an idea McMahon had about her making out with another female wrestler during a television segment. The very next week, Stratus says, the script called for her to lose her championship to another wrestler. “Maybe I was punished, I’m not sure,” she laughs, raising an eyebrow at the camera again.

McMahon first resigned as WWE chairman in June 2022 amid sexual harassment allegations and announced his resignation a month later, only to return and reinstate himself as WWE chairman six months later.

The longtime WWE chairman then sold a majority of his shares in the company in September 2023 as part of a merger with UFC. McMahon resigned as WWE boss again after new allegations were made in a January 2024 lawsuit by a former employee accusing him of sexual assault, harassment and human trafficking of other employees, including wrestlers.

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McMahon has denied the allegations and refused to continue appearing for interviews Netflix conducted with him for his new documentary after the lawsuit was filed in January 2024. Earlier this week, McMahon criticized the docuseries, claiming they were “misleading” and “deceptive.”

According to ABC News, the lawsuit is currently on hold as the U.S. Department of Justice investigates McMahon and several sexual misconduct allegations made against him.