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00:30The party starts when you get on them flights and you just start drinking, but that night it was too much.
00:43When you have an open bar and you're sitting there for seven hours, of course these things are going to happen.
00:50Naked men with robes, guys passing out, drinking, busting each other open, cutting ponytails off.
00:58Sounds like hell to me.
01:00Like, I just knew, okay, the boys are being boys and I'm not going back there at all.
01:04I remember thinking, like, is somebody gonna say that this has gone too far?
01:12The talent was just crazy. I mean, they were great guys, don't get me wrong.
01:16Back like asses. Children.
01:18The mid-air collision between intoxicated wrestlers and a flight crew determined to prevent an all-out disaster would erupt into one of wrestling's most infamous scandals.
01:30I think people have no idea what really goes on sometimes, especially back then in pro wrestling.
01:37And this is just like a capsule of what pro wrestling was like in that era.
01:41It was just a normal occurrence for a crazy bunch of wrestlers on a plane.
01:47Seems like a crazy story to probably everyone who was watching this outside of professional wrestlers.
01:54If I never talked about the plane ride from hell again in my life, I would be very happy.
02:01The deal is finalized with WCW.
02:11However, the contract reads Shane McMahon.
02:15By the early 2000s, the WWF is riding a wave of unprecedented success with a roster of breakout stars and sell-out crowds across the world.
02:27Business was going really well for the WWE.
02:30Selling tickets, pay-per-view buy rates.
02:33Everybody was making money.
02:36The crowds were there every night.
02:38You're selling houses everywhere you go.
02:40Europe, the States, Canada, and everything.
02:43I mean, our show was booming.
02:44During this surge in popularity, CEO Vince McMahon acquires his competitors, WCW and ECW,
02:53consolidating the industry's biggest players into an undisputed monopoly of the wrestling world.
02:58I, Vince McMahon, bought my competition.
03:03The bubble had burst in wrestling.
03:04There was literally the WWE, nothing else.
03:06If you want to make a full-time living in professional wrestling, it was the only place to be.
03:10My name is Tommy Dreamer, and I'm known as the innovator of violence.
03:16It was a much different time.
03:17There was holdovers from ECW and WCW, and we're all just trying to find our way in the WWE.
03:24You've got to wonder how long he had been planning this ECW assault on the WWF.
03:39I'm Jim Ross, and I was the vice president of talent relations.
03:43My job, in a nutshell, was the overall management of the talents that appeared on television.
03:51The WWF's roster exploded in size and stature by securing talent from their former rivals,
03:59while also welcoming back returning legends.
04:02There's a nature boy!
04:05We're partners!
04:07Flair and McMahon are partners!
04:09Yeah!
04:09Ric Flair's a legend.
04:10So many of our younger guys grew up watching him, idolizing him, and trying to take things
04:18from Ric's game and add to theirs.
04:21So yeah, having Ric in the locker room was a positive thing.
04:25I love my job.
04:26I love helping build that talent roster.
04:30Because I think that having those talents was a great reason, perhaps we could say the only
04:35reason, that the business went crazy and blew up.
04:39Everything was getting better.
04:42Millions upon millions of dollars.
04:44Thanks to the men and the women that came to work for us on that team.
04:51As the momentum in the States grew, so did the momentum in the UK grow.
04:58In May 2002, the company travels to Europe for a four-day tour, concluding with a sold-out
05:04pay-per-view event in London.
05:06It's probably one of the best crowds when we go overseas.
05:09So we're always amped up.
05:10We're always looking forward to it.
05:12And to be honest, the pay's pretty good when we go overseas because the crowds are so big.
05:16So yeah, I'd say the morale was high and we were stoked to have some good times.
05:20My name is PJ Polacco and you may know me as the hardcore icon, Justin Credible.
05:27Some of the big names on that trip were certainly Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker was
05:32on the flight, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Brock Lesnar was on the flight, Ric Flair was on the
05:37flight and many others.
05:39So it was unstaffed.
05:40It's a long flight and we thought that by chartering a customized jet, that we were being as talent
05:51friendly as we could.
05:53Unfortunately, it didn't work out well.
05:58My name is Heidi Doyle and in 2002, I was a flight attendant on the European charter for
06:07the WWE.
06:09I worked for a company called Sports Jet.
06:11It was a private airline that flew many of the different sports teams out of the Phoenix
06:15area, the Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Coyotes.
06:18We also flew the Utah Jazz and the Mariners.
06:20A normal commercial Boeing 757 would have 190 seats and our flight had 50 leather seats
06:27and bigger carpet than I've ever had in my own house.
06:29There's couches and lounge areas.
06:31It's just not a very bad way to travel.
06:34It costs a lot to do it privately, but you also get many benefits.
06:37You get to order your own food, you know what you're going to eat, you know you're all
06:39going to be comfortable.
06:40You know that you don't have to deal with anybody of the general public on the airplane.
06:45You're just amongst the group that's your people.
06:47It's just nice to know that we're not going to offend anyone.
06:52Like sometimes when the boys are on flights and they're a bit obnoxious, it's kind of like
06:55you go like, oh gosh, are we going to, you know, sorry.
07:01Hi, I'm Terry Reynolds and I was a passenger on the plane ride from hell.
07:06Move us along with a woman carrying a cigar.
07:10I remember sitting in the first class section.
07:12I think Jim Ross was up there, Linda and Vince.
07:18The front had a lounge area, so it was kind of like your first class of the first class,
07:22I guess, of the airplanes.
07:23And generally the coaches and the managers sat up there.
07:26And in this case, Vince McMahon and his wife, they were up there and then the wrestlers were
07:30in the back.
07:30So I was in the back with the majority of the wrestlers.
07:35My responsibility in the very back was getting them the drinks, getting the meals out to them.
07:40They were hungry.
07:40They wanted to try out the different meals that were on the airplane.
07:44Ric Flair had talked to all of us a lot.
07:46He was very chatty and he was kind of like the captain of the team, I would say.
07:50He had that kind of feel and he was very, very nice and personable to us.
07:54He was a little flirty, I think.
07:5999% of the time we had men.
08:01That's who we were working with.
08:03You just had to be aware of getting too comfortable, I think, because that can always just create
08:07a situation that different people can have different thoughts of the level of comfortableness.
08:14But on the flight to Europe, there's no problems.
08:16After an uneventful eight-hour flight across the Atlantic, the Charter arrives at its first
08:24stop on the tour, Cologne, Germany.
08:26My name is Rob Van Dam, WWE Hall of Famer and the whole damn show.
08:42It's cool to see how you affect these other cultures, you know, in other countries.
08:50RBD made it almost, yeah.
08:53They had some die-hard fans, let me tell you what.
08:56The Germans were very into the WWE and it was very, yeah, it was an intense, enlightening
09:01experience, the match was.
09:03Our flight attendants, they were with us almost every day.
09:07Some came to the show, some were partying at the hotels with the wrestlers at the bars.
09:14In the 80s and 90s, these flight attendants, they kind of would party with you, hang out
09:19with you in the back, drink with you.
09:22Hello, I'm Michael Chioda, worked for the World Wrestling Entertainment for 35 years.
09:27WWF referee, Mike Chioda!
09:31Yeah, you used to go out, meet up with some flight attendants down at the bar.
09:35They might be staying at the same hotel or you'd go to their hotel, five-minute cab ride.
09:40We went downstairs and had drinks.
09:42When the wrestlers came back from the first match in Germany, we chatted a little bit
09:47with them that first night.
09:49It was my first trip back to work after having a baby and I was so enjoying my time, resting
09:54in my room and getting to order room service and not have to wake up at all hours of the
09:59night.
09:59But I only went to the one match in Germany.
10:01You literally will wrestle in Germany and the next day you wake up, you're in Scotland.
10:06It's, you wake up the next day, you're in London.
10:09By the time we got to London, usually everybody's really stoked.
10:13I remember it being a Saturday night because that's when the pay-per-view aired traditionally
10:17over there.
10:18And it was WWE's pay-per-view Insurrection.
10:22The city of London is on fire!
10:24This is Insurrection!
10:26It was a packed house.
10:28European crowds love us.
10:30All the tickets for this event sold out in 21 minutes.
10:33I remember the show being solid.
10:35The talent seemed to be happy with their performances.
10:38And they were even more happy to get back on the plane and go home.
10:43Oh, well, I had been away from my daughter for the first time and it was, I was more than
10:47excited to go see her.
10:49Yeah.
10:49The excitement to return home is quickly deflated as the passengers are delivered troubling
10:56news.
10:57Everyone took their seats and we taxied out onto the tarmac.
11:00And we got advised that we were on a weather hold from Connecticut.
11:04When we were told it was a weather delay, I bet we probably all thought maybe 20 minutes,
11:0840 minutes, an hour tops.
11:10Well, we were delayed for seven hours before the plane takes off.
11:19So we sat on the tarmac a little while.
11:24Commercial airlines, you would all be familiar with the small little mini bottles that we
11:27serve.
11:28We had just normal bottles.
11:30And the liquor cart ran out of alcohol.
11:33And another liquor cart was ordered at their request.
11:40And that was also drank.
11:41So that liquor cart ran out.
11:45And then a third one was ordered.
11:47And how common is it to like go through a cart before a plane takes off?
11:51I've never ever done it ever before and never get, never, and we went through three.
11:57Imagine your varsity football team.
12:01They just won a game except they can't get out of the parking lot.
12:05And there's cases and cases of beer.
12:08That's what it's like.
12:09A bunch of high school guys.
12:12To say it's high school is really like giving it too much.
12:16It's more like fifth grade.
12:17Even though it was their plane in a sense, we served the drinks still.
12:23But that became not the case.
12:26They started to serve themselves the drinks and they didn't want our help.
12:28I was very concerned about the carts being replenished on the ground.
12:36If they were to try to cut us off, we would have gotten to that booze.
12:40Somebody would have.
12:42Flair probably could have thrown a couple thousand dollars at them and said,
12:45Here, take this.
12:46We're going to get the, uh, we're going to get that liquor.
12:48We would have got the liquor.
12:50Absolutely.
12:51I think the relief that they're finally going home was cause for celebration.
12:57And they only got a small window now to really let their hair down and become, uh, stupid.
13:04And that's a lot of chose to do.
13:05After spending several grueling hours grounded on the tarmac and indulging in an unlimited supply of alcohol,
13:20the passengers aboard WWF's private charter are relieved as the jet is finally cleared for takeoff.
13:26I don't remember how long we've been up in the air before.
13:29It was very, very evident that we had a lot of drunk people.
13:33Oh, shoot.
13:35The boys could, they could get drunk in one hour.
13:38When you're doing GHB or pills or anything like that, Percocets or Vicodins and stuff that were around,
13:43you could do a lot of damage, period, in one hour.
13:46But it was always booze and pills in the WWE because we had doctor's prescriptions.
13:51And as long as you had a doctor's prescription, it was okay.
13:54Of course it wasn't because, you know, we'd have doctors write us whatever we wanted.
13:59Halcyons, GHB, Placidil.
14:02Now, the Placidils, I think, were in the early 90s.
14:06But I know there were some GHB and Halcyons on the flight.
14:09Halcyons were some things that we took sometimes just to go to sleep for a long period of time.
14:15And sometimes you use them for a rib, too.
14:18Way back in the day, it used to be called H-bombing, and it was Halcyons.
14:23And I've seen so many guys dropping these H-bombs in the drinks in order to get the mark to pass out.
14:30They shave his head.
14:32You know, whatever they do.
14:33Girls, local girls, you know, were put out so the boys could have their way with them while they're out.
14:40I mean, this was...
14:42It was kind of normal in some of the places that I've been.
14:50Never leave your drink exposed.
14:52Because the boys think to see somebody froth at the mouth and slur their speech.
15:00They can't stand up, manage their own faculties.
15:04It's funny.
15:06The story was out that Michael got H-bombed.
15:10What was his role at that point?
15:12Michael Hayes worked at Creative at that point in time.
15:15I don't know if he was officially an agent, a coach, a producer.
15:18They'd gone through several names.
15:19They all do the same thing.
15:20With the Alcyon in his body, and I don't know what else could have been in there.
15:25He was not himself.
15:27And he made bad decisions.
15:30Bradshaw had gotten split open the night of the pay-per-view.
15:34Oh, yes! He did!
15:35Busted open!
15:37As Bradshaw is sleeping, Michael Hayes just knocked him in his head and reopened the wound.
15:43So now JBL is bleeding all over his shirt.
15:47So JBL slapped him and knocked him out.
15:50He knocked out Michael Hayes.
15:54We're like, holy shit.
15:58Then I hear like chanting for X-Pac.
16:01X-Pac was one of the sweetest guys in the world.
16:03He really is.
16:04J Strongbow used to call him the trailer hitch.
16:07Because he was always following the big load for Hall and Nash.
16:12I don't want to know enough to get my hands on Austin.
16:15But he wanted to be accepted so badly and proceed as a main event guy.
16:20Michael Hayes had been marrying me in the booking meetings.
16:23And he's got that f***ing ponytail, that mullet.
16:26So as he's out cold, I grabbed that f***ing tail and I lifted up my tongue.
16:31I just went whack.
16:33I remember the big pop.
16:35And it was like him holding up the title.
16:37But he had the ponytail.
16:38Back in the day, you were not allowed to sleep on those flights.
16:46You would end up with a shaved eyebrow.
16:48You always had to have one eye open, so to speak, when you're on a plane full of the boys.
16:53I had my hat on, my sunglasses, even though it was night time.
16:57You had to wear all that stuff because you didn't know who was coming by with shaving cream.
17:02If somebody went to lift your shades up, you had a chance of waking up or take your hat off.
17:06You have a chance of waking up and kicking out real quick.
17:12The roster is especially on guard for any potential hijinks,
17:16finding themselves in the presence of one of the industry's most legendary pranksters.
17:21What else would you expect from?
17:23Mr. Perfect.
17:24Kurt, boy, he knows how to rib.
17:26He was one of the best ribbers in the business.
17:29Ribs started happening once Kurt came back into the company.
17:34Kurt would always play with Brock.
17:38Brock was sitting in his chair and Kurt Henning put shaving cream on his head.
17:46He went splat and splatted on his head.
17:49Next thing I know, Brock is chasing Kurt like a full sprint.
17:55You know, like wham, wham, Brock went right behind him.
17:59And then Brock just swoops him up.
18:02So now you have Brock Lesnar, who's 6'4", and he's picking up Kurt Henning, who's about 6'4".
18:07They went into one row, like a bunch of the guys had to move.
18:11So he would go from one side of the fuselage and then into the other, and the overhead bins got broken, and the tables got broken, and armrests got broken off.
18:18Things started to break, yeah, because they're just so big.
18:21Like, I do remember one of the seats, like, the middle of the seat came completely off.
18:28And as a safety professional, there's not a damn thing I can do to stop these two men.
18:32Like, there's not a damn thing I can do to get them to hear my voice.
18:36One of the wrestlers had commandeered our PA.
18:38So in the middle of the fight going on, we have someone yelling at the airplane, we're going to die, we're all going to die.
18:44So 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.
18:51And they wouldn't even listen to him.
18:53One of our illustrious agents said, you need to come back here.
18:58So I go back there, and they're play fighting.
19:01It's just they're play fighting in the emergency exit room.
19:04Brock picks Kurt up, and then they hit the emergency door.
19:11This was a big boom.
19:14Everyone jumped up, and we're like, stop, stop.
19:18It was their own teammates that finally got to stop because they were scared.
19:21I'm not a mechanical engineer.
19:22I don't know what all it takes to pop that security door.
19:26But I didn't want to find out at 30,000 feet above the air.
19:29You have all these people.
19:30Could you imagine what happens if that door opened?
19:32If you think about it, it's physically impossible to open that door.
19:37They would have no idea of knowing the door couldn't pop out.
19:40They were throwing each other against the fuselage.
19:42And if that fuselage breaks, the airplane could depressurize it now.
19:45You're doing an emergency landing.
19:47And where are you going to land if you're over the Atlantic?
19:49The weight and the size that they are of wrestlers.
19:52I mean, they could go through a wall in a house.
19:53Why couldn't they go through a wall in an airplane?
19:55Because just the banging, you know, was, you know, Brock is so big.
20:01He was just thick, solid, big bear is right, man.
20:04He was a solid boy, young.
20:07He was getting a big push.
20:10Brock Lesnar is an animal.
20:12Brock was very new to the business.
20:13And he exposed himself to me at the insurrection pay-per-view.
20:18Like a real dick.
20:20I remember that night I was doing interviews.
20:24And Jackie in a tag team match.
20:27I was backstage.
20:29And I hear my name called.
20:31And Brock was in this room.
20:33Dustin was in the room.
20:35My ex-husband at the time.
20:36And Brock did the whole thing.
20:41I no-sold it.
20:43Went to my dressing room.
20:44Dustin came in.
20:45He's like, don't sell it.
20:47I'm like, I'm not selling it.
20:49I didn't sell it.
20:50Not gonna.
20:51In other words, let it lie.
20:53Leave it alone.
20:58I had complaints about Brock Lesnar's behavior on the plane.
21:00Uh, and, but I don't recall any advances or reported advances, uh, from Brock to, uh, to Terry Reynolds.
21:14Could it have happened?
21:15Of course it could have happened.
21:17It could have happened.
21:20I did my job to the best of my ability to look out for the talent.
21:24I can't follow everybody around to see if they're acting like an adult.
21:29That should not be my job.
21:31It really should.
21:40After 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.
21:51Got TVs tomorrow.
21:53You know, it's like, let's get some rest now.
21:55I'm leaning against the window, you know, sleeping.
21:58And 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.
22:12Forever, my darling, my love will be true.
22:16Always and forever, I'll love only you.
22:19I immediately am like, uh, mortified.
22:23Everyone that's just drifted off to sleep is now woken up by, yeah, this man.
22:28I was about to get up and go back there and tell him to stop.
22:33But Polly was across the aisle and he looked at me, he's like, don't sell it, don't sell it.
22:40So I left it alone.
22:43It seems like whenever somebody does something to you, people say, don't sell it.
22:47Because that's just the smartest way to deal with our business.
22:52Just don't sell it.
22:54If Dustin could sing, it would have made it a little bit easier.
22:57But he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
23:02I did not like his behavior.
23:04I generally felt for the guy in the sense, he was obviously hurting, you know.
23:08That pain was real.
23:10No, I don't like to see anyone hurting like that.
23:12However, he still should have given me my microphone back.
23:17It got uncomfortable.
23:18It got uncomfortable.
23:20Like, you know, J.R. had to stop that.
23:24You know, he literally went up to Dustin and said,
23:26Set your ass down.
23:28Go to sleep.
23:31You know, give us all a break.
23:33Eventually he passed out.
23:34That's how we got our PA back.
23:35He fell asleep.
23:36And I got the microphone from him.
23:39If I was a flight attendant, to be on that flight that night would have been probably one of the worst experiences of my career.
23:46Some young ladies just trying to do their job and just trying to get home.
23:51You know, I could imagine it being very disheartening for them and scary in some ways, I'm sure.
23:58Hours into the flight, the mid-air chaos shows no signs of slowing down.
24:05There's another situation that occurred with Ric Flair for me that was very uncomfortable.
24:10Sometimes, as a joke, Ric Flair would put on his robe, not wear anything else, and walk that aisle like Ric Flair, and then open it up, and woo!
24:24That's the big high spot.
24:25I wanted to see Ric coming out naked in his robe, and so he did it on the airplane for everybody.
24:30And that's what the guys want to see.
24:33That's what makes them laugh.
24:34He could move his hips and twirl it, and so his well-endowed penis spins around like a helicopter.
24:44So, hey, he's the nature boy for a reason.
24:46He's got a hammer on him.
24:49He's the life of the party.
24:50And 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.
25:06And that may have happened.
25:09And I was in the galley.
25:12The galley is where our little kitchen area on an airplane.
25:14So, Ric Flair was naked in a cape only, and then he decided to come back to the galley to get a coke.
25:21And then he wouldn't leave the galley.
25:23He had me up back against the back door, and I couldn't move.
25:29I couldn't get away from him.
25:31I couldn't move.
25:35He was spinning around his penis, and he wanted me to touch it.
25:38And he took my hand and put it on him.
25:45Ric Flair is not going to try to impose by force any sexual stuff on to anybody.
25:55He's just flaunting, styling and profile, and doing, like, the Ric Flair stuff where everybody's going to laugh about it.
26:04But obviously someone took offense to it.
26:07I remember him crowding the flight attendant, like, in the aisle way back there by the bathroom where it's, like, real skinny.
26:14And you can't fit two people through there and stuff.
26:17I remember him, like, crowding her and, you know, trying to make her touch him and stuff.
26:22And he kept me back there for, I don't know how long.
26:26But it felt like a really long time.
26:27It wasn't short.
26:28Like, it was minutes.
26:31And I asked him to please stop, and he didn't.
26:33He wouldn't.
26:37I don't remember somebody really helping me except for one, I believe, Gold, Gold Dust, who had the mic.
26:46I do believe he told Ric Flair he should leave me alone eventually.
26:51He should leave me alone.
26:53And maybe that's why I didn't get as angry about the mic as I maybe I should have.
26:58You know, I think he did try to help me, and he was the only one that did.
27:02Let's talk about Scott Hall for a second.
27:13What's his state at this point?
27:15Scott's issues have been well documented.
27:18He's documented.
27:20He had issues with substance abuse.
27:24We were not doing him any favors putting him back on the road so he could resume his routines.
27:29We didn't do justice, but we didn't know how bad it was.
27:36And for those that think we should have known, well, we didn't.
27:42You don't know until you see it.
27:45You interact with it.
27:48We were quite close to landing, and I came to Scott Hall, who had just woken up.
27:52I had offered him breakfast, and he grabbed my shirt and pulled me down, and my shirt buttons
28:02got ripped.
28:03And he had told me what he was going to do to me.
28:07Do you remember what he said?
28:10Yeah.
28:10He said a number of things, but otherwise what I do remember is as my shirt ripped, he
28:15told me he was going to lick me.
28:17And then he proceeded to try to do that, which...
28:22I don't want to say scary, because that might sound too dramatic, but it was a moment of great...
28:30violation, discomfort, to have a person put their hands on you without you wanting them
28:37to do that, and to not let go when you ask them to, and to create a level of fear when
28:42you're there to do a job, and you're doing your job, and now you have to be afraid that
28:46you're going to get hurt.
28:48It didn't feel to me that he was going to let go any time soon, and then he passed out,
28:54and I was able to, you know, dislodge him from me.
29:01I think that Kurt H-bombed me, because I've been taking pills and drinking for a lot of years
29:06at that point, and I was out.
29:10After that happened with Scott Hall, I never left the galley.
29:13I didn't serve anyone.
29:16And they got angry at me for that.
29:17They wanted more food and drinks, and I was done.
29:20I didn't come out of the galley again.
29:28After spending a total of 14 nightmarish hours on the plane,
29:32the weary passengers and crew finally touched down on American soil.
29:37When they landed and I heard the door open, yeah, it was a very, very excellent feeling
29:42to not be over the Atlantic anymore.
29:44It was a long flight.
29:45It was a very long flight.
29:46The plane was trashed.
29:50Blankets, pillows, drinks, cups, food stepped on.
29:54A normal flight, they're passing by three or four times with trash bags and this and that.
30:00Well, this wasn't a normal flight, so I think Scott was passed out.
30:04I think they were actually worried he was dead, you know, so they were all stressed.
30:09Like, they got a dead person on this flight now, and I'm like, oh, boy, don't worry.
30:13He'll kick out.
30:14You know, it's like, he'll kick out.
30:18He wouldn't wake up.
30:19So I'm picking him up, and I had to get him a wheelchair and literally take him through customs myself.
30:27I put the sunglasses on him, laid him there, and he's just kind of, you know.
30:33I had to get his passport, had to say that he had some kind of condition.
30:39And there I am, wheeling Razor through, you know, customs.
30:45And there's Jim Ross.
30:47He had the black hat on.
30:48And just looking at me with disgust, and I'm like, I'm here.
30:53I'm wheeling him.
30:54I didn't do anything.
30:56Once we landed, Michael Hayes woke up, and his ponytail was missing.
31:03And Michael Hayes was pissed off about it.
31:07He was hell-bent to find out who did it.
31:10You know who did it.
31:11You know who did it.
31:12Would have fought the entire plane if he could have.
31:15He was really angry.
31:16He was really angry.
31:18And when we landed, we started to pick up the airplane, and there was vomit, and there was blood.
31:32There was syringes found in seatback pockets in other places.
31:35And I'm going, oh, no, we're not cleaning this airplane.
31:38We're going to get off right now.
31:40And my superior is saying, no, you need to clean the airplane.
31:44And me just walking off the airplane, you know.
31:47If that happened on Delta or American or whatever, when we got back to the States, the FBI would have been waiting on us.
31:58They should have been more repercussions for sure.
32:01There should have been some, I don't know, they did have repercussions, I learned later.
32:05But they were only, I think, because they knew they had to do something, you know, because it didn't look real good for Vince McMahon's organization, I don't think.
32:14For better or for worse, I'm taking ownership.
32:18But it was a, it was a black eye.
32:23Good thing about a black eye, you heal.
32:26Shortly after landing, Vince McMahon and Jim Ross urgently meet to discuss repercussions for the flight's most egregious acts.
32:42I just couldn't believe everything was getting out of control with Vince on a flight, you know.
32:47But it did, it got out of control.
32:49I don't know, I don't know what Vince was doing during this whole time.
32:52I wonder what.
32:54Vince was well aware of it.
32:56But it was my job to handle.
32:59That's why I'm still embarrassed about it this very day.
33:02It was my job to handle.
33:05Vince McMahon makes the decisions, but Jim Ross is the one who has to execute them.
33:10Jim Ross is the guy who has to fire you as well.
33:12Jim Ross is the guy who has to tell you, hey, you're messing up.
33:15He's the guy who has to fine you.
33:17That's that position.
33:19It was a tough decision on my part to cut some guys from the roster.
33:24Because it's what Vince McMahon told me to do.
33:27And the guy that writes the checks has a last say.
33:31I was troubled by Kurt's firing.
33:36I just thought he had a bad night with the boys.
33:39He had a reputation of becoming a practical joker.
33:44And Vince had enough of it.
33:45And he kind of figured maybe, okay, Kurt got fired, but then he's going to come back and circle his way around at some point.
33:51Which he would have, I'm sure.
33:53But he passed away not too far after that.
33:57And Razor, I think it was just his drug addiction that kind of maybe just his career kind of slipped away there.
34:06We let Scott go within hours after he got back to the States.
34:12I was told to cut him now.
34:16And so I called him at home and, you know, I just said, I think we made a mistake.
34:21You're not ready to get back on the road.
34:23And until you're better suited to handle your demons, we need to put you back in your comfort zone.
34:28Which meant at home, primarily.
34:32Dustin Rhodes is one of my favorite people in the world.
34:36We go back a long way.
34:37I don't know if it was just the rebound of his divorce or Terry, what it was.
34:42But he was in a tough place.
34:45But no excuse.
34:48So, you know, he was dipping his snuff and using the seat back cushion as a spittoon.
34:56I had two options.
34:58Find him, then I'll get his attention, or fire him.
35:02Which I thought was extreme, and did not need to happen.
35:08That was my call.
35:10He learned from his mistakes.
35:12He was immature.
35:13He had substance abuse issues.
35:16And sometimes he controlled them, and sometimes he didn't.
35:19But the bottom line is, is that we have to stop in our society letting other transgressions go without punishment.
35:31How is it that Ric Flair evaded any sort of suspension or anything like that?
35:35Good question.
35:44Uh, I guess, for lack of a better term, he was a made man.
35:53And he was such a high-level made man that he got a pass.
36:01Was it the right thing to do?
36:02I don't know.
36:03You're listening to it, folks.
36:06You decide.
36:08You gotta pass.
36:11As the WWF deals with the fallout from the flight, Heidi is forced to consider her next steps.
36:18I remember walking off the airplane on the tarmac, and we went to a hotel that was quite nearby,
36:23and talking about how horrible, like, and the girls from the front saying they didn't know that it was that, you know, that it was that bad.
36:31Um, and then I just went to my hotel room and I took a shower and I cried.
36:37I called Sports Jet.
36:39They said that it was unfortunate that that had occurred on the airplane.
36:43They preferred that we kept it to ourself, the story, because we work with professional athletes and things happen on airplanes.
36:48And they let us know that it was expected that we would, um, respect the privacy of our clients.
36:55So then you have to figure out how you tell your husband, how was your trip?
37:02Well, it wasn't excellent.
37:04Um, what do you tell your husband?
37:06Um, it can even create situations where they say, well, what, why did that happen to you?
37:13Well, what did you do to make them do that to you?
37:17And I would say that might be the worst question you could ever ask somebody who's been hurt,
37:21because you already feel a sense of, what did I do?
37:25Did I smile?
37:26Was I, was I too nice to him?
37:27Or did I, and made you feel almost like you'd done something wrong.
37:33And what I hadn't.
37:34Um, but I know another girl, there was another girl on the flight that was very upset about
37:41things that had, similar things that had occurred to her.
37:46She went to a lawyer, and then she contacted me and said, I should do that as well.
37:52If I filed a lawsuit for every time something like that happened to me, dear God,
37:57I would be in court for all my adult life.
38:01My sense of it was that the company wanted to address this matter, take it off our books,
38:13uh, do the right thing by those that had complaints, and then move on.
38:21There was an agreement that was reached, and, um, you know, they offered us a settlement.
38:26My husband just didn't want the story told to the public, um, maybe just to protect her.
38:31Our daughter, or him, us, I don't know.
38:34So he was very, very supportive of the settlement.
38:37It's sad that money has to be that compensation, like, I think definitely truth and honesty and,
38:43and change is more powerful, but money is, money is what ends up on the table, I think.
38:48And, and then it also buys, buys you silence, which then can add to another layer of the guilt
38:53of a victim.
38:54Like, it can, it can be a cycle that's not good, yeah, perpetually bad.
39:00If that's how she felt, maybe she should have not taken a payout and went to the fullest extent
39:06of the law to then truly put this heinous person in jail.
39:11Well, my opinion.
39:14People have their own opinions of what happened, what, what the damage was, though, no one
39:18should really have a bad opinion when it didn't happen to them, but they do.
39:22They say, you know, well, it wasn't that bad, you're okay, aren't you?
39:25And now you have to live with a pain or a memory of something that you didn't bring about,
39:30and that takes some work.
39:32After the exhausting European tour, wrestlers and management report for a live taping of
39:45Monday Night Raw a mere 24 hours after the plane touchdown in Connecticut.
39:49We had TV that day, Monday, of course the talents, H-A-R, H-A-R, what?
39:57Did you see what they did to Hayes' ponytail?
40:03No, what?
40:05Michael Hayes' ponytail was put into a sandwich bag that was taped to the locker room door
40:12at Raw Monday until I saw it, and I took it down and threw it away.
40:19Exposure of these scandalous events would mark a turning point for the WWF, propelling
40:24it to rein in the public antics of its performers.
40:27In a symbolic twist of fate, the aftermath of the infamous plane ride from hell coincided
40:34on the same day the company was legally forced to rebrand its identity.
40:38Can you imagine that, J-R?
40:39We're getting the F out!
40:41Young talents coming into the business after that era, I heard all the stories, saw the
40:46remnants, saw guys that had made millions of dollars and not have two quarters rubbed together.
40:52And, uh, I think they learned from their predecessors.
41:01Nice job.
41:01It's a different culture.
41:04It's a different era.
41:06I think that's the upshot and maybe good news that incidents like the plane ride from hell
41:14smarten some of these younger kids up.
41:16I want to be in the wrestling business.
41:18I've always idolized this guy.
41:20But I do know I'm not going to better some of my career after this guy.
41:26You make good choices that way.
41:29I think that there's definitely a sense of that cliché, never meet your heroes.
41:36The people who have watched for generations and got them through their lives.
41:42I don't think that they all need to see Ric Flair doing the helicopter with his penis.
41:47Like, I don't, I don't really think it's good for everybody to know this about their heroes.
41:56You know?
41:57Some of these guys are freaks.
41:58I feel this is trying to portray someone as this sexual predator and it's not.
42:03It's a joke.
42:04It's a gag.
42:05And today, 1,000% inappropriate.
42:09My hairstyle is inappropriate right now.
42:11I am somehow offending someone right now with my double ponytail.
42:15How dare I have two ponytails?
42:17And my answer is I'm 50 years old.
42:19I'm happy I have hair.
42:21But if you're asking me, I've hung out with Ric Flair.
42:24I've never seen him try to force his will against anybody.
42:30I don't feel that his intent was to rape me.
42:33But what he did was wrong.
42:35It was wrong and he goes to sleep that night and thinks he made it back from his wrestling
42:41trip in Europe and maybe he has a headache because he had too many cocktails on the airplane.
42:46And yet, that night I didn't go to sleep.
42:50My trip to work, my trip to get money to support my daughter, becomes a memory that is mine forever
42:56to live with.
42:57Like, I get to live with the fact that I had to see a naked man and get my face licked
43:00by a man that I was there to make sure he got from point A to point B safe.
43:05And they went to sleep and thought they made it home safe and sound and so goes on the world,
43:10you know.
43:12I was uncomfortable coming to talk about this.
43:14You see some stories get told and then people get ridiculed or they're everything picked
43:19apart as what they did wrong when they're just telling the story.
43:23But if one person that listens to this says, oh my gosh, I might have acted like that towards
43:30somebody and I didn't even realize I did it.
43:32Or if one person hears that they had something happen to them, that they didn't like it and
43:37they didn't feel they could speak about it because they'd get in trouble or they were made to feel
43:41that they created the situation and might have made it happen.
43:43Like, if it could change it for one person, I'd sit and have this conversation 25 times again.
43:50The truth, the truth can be scary and the truth can be ugly and messy, but at the end
43:55of the day, the truth is the thing that makes us better, you know.
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