Trish Stratus was recently interviewed on Lilian Garciaâs podcast in which she reflected on John Morrisonâs giving her the cold shoulder to her at WrestleMania 27.
The incident happened at WrestleMania when, after winning a six-person tag team match along with Jersey Shore star Snooki, Stratus went to raise Morrisonâs hand. However, he pointedly ignored her and walked to the other side of Snooki. He then proceeded to do the same thing in a tag match with Stratus against Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero the next night on Raw.
Check out highlights from the podcast below, courtesy of 411Mania.com.
âMelina and I for years, I mean, so thereâs an internet thing. Thereâs the famous Trish Stratus/John Morrison incident where he gave me , itâs called the famous cold shoulder incident. It was from Raw, actually. So we had the WrestleMania match with Snooki and LayCool and Dolph Ziggler. And I guess it was on Raw, we won the match, we were raising our hands. And I went to go raise his hand and he like, threw my hand off or gave me the brush[off] and went on the other side of Snooki. I was like, âOkay, that was on live television.â And that was a big thing.â
âWe had a little conversation in the back. It wasnât a little conversation actually, it was the first time I actually, like we were passionately talking about it. But basically I was like, âYou just stole a moment from a performance. Whatever you feel about me, maybe you think youâre not cool with me. Which is fine, I donât mind but weâre performing and tonight weâre partners, and the crowd was excited about us as a team, as a partnership. And youâve taken that moment from the fans. And itâs like, for what, right? You can wait five seconds later, Iâm gone tomorrow.â And he went into this whole thing, and said, âWell youâve taken a spot from another superstar by being here.â And I was like, âNope. I have not taken a spot from someone. I was assigned this spot. Iâm on this show called Tough Enough that airs after this [Raw], and they brought me back for that.â So it kinda got a lot of big buzz. And then eventually, he got released and everyone thought it was because of that incident. But who knows, whatever.â
âBut a lot of it, there was this backstory that Melina and I, that he had said I had taken her [spot]. He was mad, because she was his girlfriend and I was taking her spot. And she really had nothing to do about it. So weâve had this weird kind of, we havenât talked for years. And we were fine before this incident, and we would chat here and there, and then we just didnât talk. So I thought, âWow, I donât know if itâs related.â Never chatted with her, she never talked to me and it was just this quiet thing, and life goes on. Next thing you know five years have gone by, six years have gone by. And then weâve reached out a couple of times on Twitter, weâd DMd each other here and there. And then I think we just, when this group [text among the women who knew Ashley Massaro] thing came, we just said, âThis is a chance for us to chat.â And we finally connected and we had a really wonderful conversation. The bottom line was, âHey, weâre cool, right?â âYeah.â There was nothing, there was no heat ever.â