Jackie Redmond Recalls The Rock Interrupting Her Interview With Triple H, CM Punk Returning to WWE,

During a recent interview with Insight With Chris Van Vliet, WWE broadcaster Jackie Redmond discussed her WWE career, along with some key moments in WWE history, such as the epic WrestleMania 40 press conference. Jackie Redmond was chatting backstage with Triple H, when The Rock interrupted their interview.

According to Redmond, her reaction and jaw drop during the segment was 100% natural. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Redmond on CM Punk Returning to WWE

“I crossed paths with CM Punk prior to joining WWE because he’s such a hockey fan. So I knew him through hockey. So when he came back, I instantly DM’d him. I was leaving the venue, and I was like, ‘You little sh*t! I didn’t know you were coming back.’ This is crazy, and I was still pretty new at that time. So for me, I was like, Oh my gosh. It’s an intimidating world. Everyone’s so nice and welcoming, but it’s a big world with big personalities. Everyone’s focused on what they have going on. So when I first started, I was very much in my shell, I was shy. So when Punk came back, I was like, Oh, my God, a friendly face. I know this person, which is so crazy because his reputation prior to coming back, it just amazes me some of the things that people say about him. Because for me, he’s always just been an absolute pleasure, so nice, so professional, just awesome.”

Jackie Redmond on The Rock Interrupting Her Interview With Triple H at the WrestleMania 40 Press Conference

“The jaw drop, the most natural crazy jaw drop of my entire life. The crazy thing about that situation was I didn’t even know I was interviewing Triple H until eight minutes before that. So we’re getting close to the end of this presser, and a producer comes up to me and is like, ‘Hey, we weren’t planning for this, but some sh*t is about to go down, and I think we need to hear from Hunter after this. We need him to give us something to kind of put a cap on everything that’s going on.’ So okay, that’s no problem. ‘So just pay attention. As soon as it’s done, he’s gonna come out of Gorilla, and he knows he’s gonna chat with you to get this instant live reaction from the craziness that just happened.’ So I find that out late, and I’m like, oh. I’m still only a year into this job, maybe. So for me, Hunter is still a very intimidating presence. I’ve met him, I’ve talked to him. He’s lovely, but we’re not buds. I don’t know him that well. I’m like, Oh man, I’m interviewing Hunter, can’t blow this, this has to be good. And then I interview him, and I like, I should know better at this point that basically 99% of the time when I’m interviewing someone, it will be interrupted, that’s pretty much a staple of what I do. But I had no idea that Dwayne The Rock mother****ing Johnson was gonna come out, yell at Hunter, and drop F bombs all on live television. People do not believe me to this day, that I did not know The Rock was gonna do that. I did not know, hand to God, did not know that that was gonna happen. And so when it did, that was a very real reaction from me. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I felt like I was teleported back to being 10 years old, it’s the Attitude Era, and The Rock and Triple H are yelling at each other. What is going on? It was a very surreal, surreal moment for me. I don’t say that a lot, like that was one where I was like is this my life right now?”

On Her First WWE Shows

“I did studio shows in Stanford starting in 2020, 2021. I did Raw Talk and Talking Smack. It’s been a lot of wrestling. I owe a lot to WWE because when I first started in broadcasting, I was cutting highlight packages. I was not on the air in a consistent capacity at all. One of the first opportunities I ever had to cut my teeth as a host was Aftermath. It was a wrestling show. I got a call, and they said, Renee is leaving. Do you want to host the show? Do you watch wrestling? I said, Well, I watched it for like, four years as a kid. I had an obsessive phase. I haven’t been watching it, but I can absolutely get back into it. So that was my first ever real hosting gig.”

You can view a clip of Redmond’s WrestleMania XL Kickoff moment with Triple H and The Rock below: