Former WWE Superstar Darren Young was recently interviewed by Chris Van Vliet. During the interview, Young spoke on a wide variety of topics.
One of these topics was about Vince McMahon’s reaction to him coming out.
Here is what Young said about the backstage reaction to him coming out:
“It was Stephanie McMahon and Vince McMahon who really embraced me and let me know that everything would be OK. Vince genuinely talked to me for 20 minutes about his best friend Pat Patterson being gay. Pat’s a great guy.
I’m not a bitter wrestler and I’ll never be a bitter wrestler. Vince gave me a shot and I’m grateful that he gave me a shot.”
Young also said that Finn Balor’s entrance at Wrestlemania 34 was more hurtful to him than being released by WWE:
“I’ll be honest with you, the release wasn’t that hurtful it was more hurtful at last year’s WrestleMania seeing Finn Balor in the opening match and the LGBTQ colors were embraced under his umbrella. I love Finn, I love Finn to death but I was like ‘Man, you just released me a few months ago. Give a dog a bone. Let me embrace it.’ I want to be able to go out there and show people that being gay comes in all different sizes and shapes. I don’t celebrate being gay, I celebrate living my life free from hate and free from
judgement .“
On a related note, here are some more backstage stories about Vince.