00:01And I could not be more grateful for all of you. You are the one constant. No
00:07matter what I was going through in my life, you were always there to boo or
00:12cheer or chant horrible things at me. Thank you for the love. Thank you to the
00:20Samoans who helped me when a riot broke out at the LA Coliseum. Thank you to the
00:25person who worked at the airport in Abu Dhabi and wore a Connors Cure bracelet.
00:30Thank you to the man at the strip mall in New Hampshire who told me everything was
00:34going to be okay. I think I could thank nearly everyone in this room for
00:39impacting my life in some way. Crew, referees, bus and truck drivers,
00:46custodians, security, building personnel, tailors and seamstresses, catering, hair
00:51and makeup, agents and producers, employees, partners, production, and
00:56especially our superstars.
01:05It is an honor to have worked with you and I will continue to cheer you on as
01:10you impact generations. And to those of you who I may have burst your eardrum
01:17with one of my slaps, I am truly sorry. But there's really only one person to blame
01:25for that. My mother-in-law. She's the one who taught me how to slap.
01:34Meme Pepe, thank you for welcoming me into your family with open arms. To my sister-in-law Lynn,
01:46thank you for always having my back. And to my niece and nephew, Naysa and Peter, I
01:53love you like you were my own.
01:58A very special thank you to some of my real life groomsmen, and I'm going to go
02:03through this quickly. HBK, or as my kids call him, Uncle Sean, The Undertaker, William
02:10Regal, The Nature Boy, and Kevin Nash, Kid, my co-podcaster Elise, Jackie,
02:18Julie, Rich, Terry, Tim, Tara, Jimmy, Ed, Laura, Brian, Michael Bruce, The American Dream, Dusty
02:25Rhodes, Classy Freddie Blassie, Jacqueline, Trish Stratus, Lita Sable, Ronda Rousey, The
02:32Bellas, Natty, The Four Horsewomen, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul Heyman, Kurt Angle, Batista,
02:38Tess, Randy Orton, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, The Rock, Y2J, Mick Foley, and John Cena.
02:49Thank you to Nick, Yvette, Natalie, and Sunny Khan, Mark Shapiro, and Ari Emanuel. And most
02:59importantly, thank you to the man of my dreams, Paul Triple H Levesque.
03:09He used to come to producers meetings wearing a black leather jacket, chomping gum, putting his feet
03:16up and rocking back in his chair. He was everything that I taught to be disrespectful.
03:24But there was something irresistible about him. He was also forbidden to date being a talent.
03:33But I just couldn't seem to resist this man. He would flick little balled up pieces of paper at me
03:41that no one else seemed to notice. When we'd go to give each other a hug, it was so awkward,
03:47like we had
03:48never hugged anybody before. And then one night after a raw in Nashville, I was sitting on the floor
03:54in the office and he came and asked me if he could give me a call, you know, to talk
03:59business.
04:01And we never stopped talking. Paul, you are my soulmate, you are my hero, and you are the man of
04:12my dreams.
04:13And for the record, you flirted with me first.
04:22Whether I was that girl in the magazine, the character in the show, or even briefly leading as
04:29chairwoman and co-CEO, my entire life has been lived through WWE. And a few years ago,
04:38I thought all of that was lost. But you helped me realize that that wasn't true.
04:44And no matter what, it will always be a part of me, as it is a part of all of
04:50you.
04:51The video package that played before I came out, Thank You Adam and Colleen,
04:57ended with the song Home by Philip Phillips. And I want to reinforce that all of us,
05:04all of us who have ever touched or loved our business in some way, we are all family.
05:10And WWE will always and forever be our home.
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