Triple H says nothing more needs to be said about the investigation into sexual assault accusations made against Velveteen Dream.
Triple H hosted a post-show media call after NXT TakeOver XXX and was asked about fans believing WWE didn’t do enough to investigate the claims made against Velveteen Dream and for his thoughts on the #FireVelveteenDream social hashtag. HHH simply replied that he felt that it was addressed already and nothing else needed to be said.
“We’ve talked about this, we’ve said our piece on it and I understand people’s positions on it and their feelings of something that they seeing with the accusations online. So, I feel like there’s nothing more that needs to be said on it again. That’s it.”
Triple H addressed the accusations earlier this week during an interview with CBS Sports and again on a media call ahead of NXT TakeOver. He initially told CBS Sports that Velveteen Dream (real name Patrick Clark) was taken off of television due to a car accident he was involved in, and not because of the sexual assault allegations made against him. Triple said they didn’t find anything when it came to the allegations and “once [Clark] was medically cleared to be able to return to the ring from his car accident, we continued forward the way we did.”
Shortly after that interview, one of the accusers claimed no one from WWE contacted him during the investigation, claiming that their findings were incomplete. When asked on Wednesday’s call why they didn’t contact the alleged victim, Triple H said he stood by his comments to CBS Sports.
“Obviously, we take all of these things very seriously. Allegations, misconduct, of any nature, we take very seriously. I’ll stand by what I said to CBS, we looked into it, didn’t find anything there in the manner of what we were looking for and we moved on. It doesn’t change the fact that we take it seriously. If there is something else there we’ll look into it. We’ve already talked about it so I’d rather just move on to other topics.”
The #FireVelveteenDream has been trending on Twitter and a petition for a proper investigation on Change.org has also received more than 2,000 signatures so far.
