Former WWE Women’s Champion Michelle McCool was miserable having her accomplishments credited to The Undertaker.
Michelle McCool was recently a guest on The Wives of Wrestling Podcast to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about dating The Undertaker during the divas’ era of WWE, McCool was open and honest about how difficult that was.
“Yeah, so that was hard in itself already because we literally were given two, maybe three minutes. I remember thinking like if we got six minutes, it was like, Oh my gosh, this is crazy. We have six minutes, two of those being our entrance,” Michelle McCool said. “So that was hard in itself, and I just fought every single week to do something to stand out or something to leave the fans wondering what would happen next. So I really do pride myself on working hard, pitching storylines. When we started dating, we did hide it. Like, I don’t want this to be a thing. He had a bus at the time. I literally would wait till the arena was empty until I got on the bus. I would still like — we would get there hours early just so I could get out early and go to the locker room.
“So I hid it for a long time, knowing how a lot of people would react, and then it came out, and yeah. I mean, it’s still not fun because literally, I’m just considered a channel to The Undertaker. Undertaker’s wife, which obviously I love him to death, but it’s pretty rough. And there were some people that — like I said, I’ve got a mouth. I’m not afraid to stand up for myself. I am going to be nice, but if you’re going to be stupid and say stupid things, I will let you know I think they’re stupid. There were several people that I can think of that totally treated me one way when he wasn’t around. And then if Mark was around, they’re treating me a different way, you know? And so I hate that crap. I literally said, look, I saw you five minutes ago in the hall, and you didn’t talk to me. I said I’m pretty sure I’m not the one that’s changed from five minutes, so don’t talk to me now.”
Michelle McCool went out to reveal that she didn’t appreciate the fact that it got to a point where anything she accomplished was credited to her dating The Undertaker. The situation made her miserable and eventually led to her departing the company.
“It’s just stupid,” Michelle McCool continued. “But it did start making it miserable because anything I did was because I dated The Undertaker, and I’m like if y’all knew some of the girls dating some people around here. I’m actually dating this guy. Yeah, I’m like, Good lord. So it really led to me being kind of miserable back there and eventually leaving.”
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