Trish Stratus Reveals Turning Down WWE Storyline Involving Kissing A Girl, Being Punished For It

While Trish Stratus took part in several controversial storylines in WWE during the Attitude Era, she recently revealed that she did turn down “lots” of storylines and was even punished for turning down one in particular. Stratus discussed turning down a storyline involving kissing another girl in her appearance on Pod Meets World.

Stratus recalled how she would deal with turning down storyline pitches, and recalled being punished for turning down a segment involving her kissing another girl. You can see the highlights below:

On Turning Down Storylines:

“Oh yeah, lots of ’em. I understood that if you were to say no, that it was like say “No, but…’ So I’d be like, ‘I’m not doing that, but how about we…?’ I wanted to make sure, ‘I can get there, but let’s do it this way.’ So I got away with a lot of stuff. If I didn’t wanna do it, I said no to it and got away with my suggestion or alternative way of approaching the same sort of outcome.”

“But there was one time that I flat out said ‘No.’ It involved me kissing another girl. And I was like, ‘Hmm, I don’t understand. Why would– No, I don’t, nope. Just, nope.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t think my character would do that, or myself.’ So yeah, I didn’t do that. But then I got stripped of the belt right away. Like, literally was shown that this was, ‘You are being punished for your decision.’ Like, it was crazy. There was some crazy scenarios… I was told like, I was just like, ‘Oh, is this happening because–‘ ‘Yep, it sure is.’ And I was like, ‘All right, wow.'”

On WWE Not Trying To Hide That They Were Punishing Her:

“They were, but there would be people. There’s so many people backstage, there’s all these producers, there’s writers. And it kind of like, I was like, ‘Is this happening because…’ “Yeah. ‘Oh, okay. Well, that’s okay. I still stand by my decision.'”

Elsewhere in the interview, she talked about how Vince McMahon hounded her to do Playboy.

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Pod Meets World with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.