As you probably know, I spent three years in the World Wrestling Federation, under a different name. (I can't use it here, because as of this moment I don't actually own the name I worked so hard to build. Rest assured, I'm doing everything I can to rectify this situation.) I never planned on being a wrestler, although I've always been involved in athletics of all kinds. But my love for my husband, wrestler Marc Mero, led me to want to spend as much time as I could with him...and before I knew it, I was in the squared circle! You can read my BIO here on Celebweb to learn more about my unlikely transformation from Florida girl to model to WWF champion.
First off...you don't own the name that you "built". You did not "build" the name Sable. The WWF did. They could have taken any big breasted blonde woman with a tiny waist and made her "Sable". You just happened to be a convenient choice. Remember Sunny? Where is she now? Sable took her place. Just like someone will easily take Sable's place. So let's drop the pretense that you have any real claim on the Sable name.
I built my fame through wrestling, don't think I don't know it, and I've heard some snickering about "biting the hand that feeds me". I'll give the folks who say those kinds of things the benefit of the doubt, and guess that they probably don't know what's really going on in the wrestling world, inside the ring and out of it. If they did, I'm sure they'd probably think differently.
These people snicker and say the things they do because it's TRUE, you idiot. Good luck trying to convince the world that there's some sort of huge cover-up in the world of wrestling. And if you think that there are problems backstage in the WWF, wait until you see WCW. Steroid abuse? Two words...Scott Steiner. Ego problems? Hogan, Nash, DDP, Bischoff. Mistreatment of females? See the Nitro Girls. They're just there to be ogled. They have no other role. At least in the WWF, the women can kick some ass.
The WWF has changed. I participated and was seduced by those changes. The WWF is now out of control. The nightly fare now includes not simply the baring of "puppies" as the WWF likes to call them, but crotch grabbing, gun pointing of an employee at the head of an employer, satanic rituals, outright and obscene rudeness and crude and obscene disobedience of a son to his father. It not only reflects everything that is bad in society, it condones it and takes it a step further--all before an audience A major portion of that audience is under 13 and all this is permitted because there are no controls that I know of; no federal controls; no state controls, no league controls; no union controls and no internal controls regarding vulgarity, obscenity, drugs or safety.
The WWF shows on one channel all the stuff I'd have to flip through the networks to see. This is laughable. Everyone talks about how bad the WWF is, when in reality they are no worse than anything else you might see on TV. The only times when other stations are showing "cleaner, more socially acceptable" fare is when either there's a fishing show on TNN, or someone's showing the latest Billy Graham crusade.
Also, it's been shown that most of the WWF viewers are 17 or older. It's something like 80 percent...wish I had some more specific numbers to quote.
And there ARE controls, moron. The FCC controls the "vulgarity" and "obscenity". When have you ever seen bare breasts shown on regular WWF programming? If you have, please let me know. I want a tape of that. Unless it's Sable's breasts. And you will only hear the usual "ass", "bitch", "damn", and "piss" in the way of swearing. Stuff that shows up regularly in other shows, even shows that air before 9 PM.
There are federal and state controls on both drugs and safety. Why do you think Yokozuna isn't wrestling in the US anymore? Some state laws won't allow him to wrestle because he's too big. And of course, I don't need to go into the regulations regarding steroids. It's pretty well known, especially after the US Government put McMahon on trial earlier this decade.
It was becoming, in my opinion, a sport run amok. It was time for someone to say "no". Two weeks before Owen Hart's death, I objected in writing to the obscenity and the safety and entered into a contract with the WWF under which they would assure that I would not be subject to further degradation. That same night I was introduced as being "horizontally accessible" and the mike was simulated to include oral copulation. That may be funny to some, but not to me with an 11 year old daughter and this was, notwithstanding an express promise an hour before that, in writing.
Why is Owen Hart's death mentioned here? It makes no sense...it isn't needed as a time reference. "A month ago" would have been sufficient for that purpose. The real reason: you want to build off the negative publicity that Owen's death brought to the WWF.
By the way...if your 11 year old daughter knows what the phrase "horizontally accessible" means, and understands the mike stimulation thing...then she's not so innocent, if you watch what the Clerk is renting.
A week later I found the personal effects I left in my dressing room smeared with feces. I would like you to think how each of you would be affected if you opened your tool box or your lunch box or your desk drawer and found everything with waste on it. Did officers of WWF know about this incident ahead of time? I doubt it. Did they participate in it? I doubt it. Did they create an atmosphere in which things like this happened with regularity without punishment? Absolutely. This was on top of numerous incidents only some of which can be found in my Complaint. And so I left the WWF, terminated my contract and sued.
It was a frickin' JOKE! What, do you and Martha Hart share the stick that's jammed up your ass? If this happened to me, then one of three things would be possible:
Now, let me tell you about Playboy. Before I agreed to appear in Playboy, which occurred at Vince's suggestion, and with his adding more money to the offer to make it even more seductive, I investigated the potential impact. I wanted to see who had appeared in Playboy. It included names from Marilyn Monroe to Sharon Stone. I looked at who wrote for Playboy. That included past United States presidents, for example, Jimmy Carter; past and current Supreme Court Justices, Senators and Congressmen. And so I posed in a sterile atmosphere on a closed set before a professional photographer (who took approximately 2,500 photographs in a single day) and two female assistants. Playboy could not be more professional. In my opinion, this does not give anybody the right to repeatedly request me to show my "puppies" on national television. No more than if any of you women had so posed and your boss at the office said, "Since you posed for Playboy, I want you to be the first to know that Friday, is ladies' topless day" at the office. If you say it once, it may be a joke or an honest request. If you repeatedly say it, then it's another matter.
Let's get one thing straight right now, because you are so stupid it hurts MY head. People, men specifically, do not buy Playboy magazine for the articles. They don't think "Hmm...you know, there's that article on stereo equipment in Playboy, think I'll pick up a copy." Here on the planet Earth, men think "I wanna see some naked women". Which is why they buy the magazine. The articles are filler, crap thrown in as an excuse for when some guy's wife finds his hidden stash. "Yeah honey, I just read it for the articles." What a joke.
Now, why is the number of photos taken mentioned? Is this more than average? Was he so taken with your "beauty" that he HAD to keep shooting? (no pun intended there...really) As for baring your breasts on TV...I simply don't believe that was ever asked of you. The FCC would have fined the hell out of the WWF had it happened. Query: Why didn't you complain about this type of thing way back when you did that WWF video? You were almost naked on that tape. Or was that some sort of freaky surveillance tape?
Anyhow, this all reminds me of an old joke which is quite relevant here. A man approaches a woman and says "Will you sleep with me if I give you $25?" The woman is shocked, and says "NO!" The man then says "What if I had the body of a great athlete, was a world famous movie star, and offered you $2 million dollars to sleep with me. Would you do it?" The woman thinks for a moment, then says "Well, if you were all THAT, I guess I would." The man then says "Would you sleep with me now for $50?" The woman replies "No! Haven't I said no before?!? What kind of girl do you think I am?!?" To which the man says "I think we've already decided that part, now we're just bickering over price." Same type of deal here.
I have been accused of moving on to greener pastures. For those who make the accusation, let me tell you I had no safety nets, I had no contracts to do movies or television, I did not even have oral promises of such contracts and I still don't. In short, I left for the reasons stated and if there are greener pastures and you know of them, then you tell me. When I appeared on the front cover of the TV Guide, I was not paid for it. Yes, I have seen articles about me in the Enquirer and the Star. There too, I gave no interviews and was not paid.
Let's see...you showed up in WCW pretty quick. You wanted to take the fame the WWF gave you and go elsewhere. Don't act like you didn't, because it's been done before. Guys like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage did that before you even thought about the WWF.
The last part about not being paid is a lie. True, you may not have recieved direct monetary compensation for your "work" (and I use that word in the loosest possible sense). But you did get a great deal of exposure at no cost to you. And that can be just as good as money in the bank.
As to who owns the name Sable, I make no comment. I will let the Court decide that and will abide by whatever decision the Court makes. As to whether I will work for the WCW? I have no current idea whether I wish to do so, I am still investigating. That too will be up to the Court and I will abide by its decision. But this is not a country of indentured servitude and you can be sure that I will not be back working for the WWF unless it dramatically changes its internal policies and the fashion in which it presents itself to the public. This industry needs to change--it's time."
When you're told you have no real talent other than being some wrestling companies T&A girl, you're ass will be in WCW before David Flair blows another wrestling move. I hope that your WWF contract is kept intact so that you have to find a real job between now and 2001.
That's my bit for now. Got an opinion you want to share? Email the Clerk.