Stephanie McMahon’s On Triple H’s Health Scare: “It’s Called The Widowmaker”
Stephanie McMahon has spoken about the time when she almost lost her husband, WWE Hall of Famer Triple H.
The WWE power couple of Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque and former Chairwoman Stephanie McMahon have been married since October 2003 after being paired up as an on-screen couple in the Attitude Era. The couple has three teenage daughters together.
While Stephanie doesn’t currently have a WWE job title, the daughter of former Chairman Vince McMahon considers WWE home. As for Triple H, he’s running the main roster creatively, which means he’s a busy guy.
Triple H running WWE is something a lot of people like, but it almost didn’t happen. In September 2021, Triple H suffered a heart attack and had an emergency surgery that saved his life. That put an end to his active run as a WWE superstar after 25+ years. He didn’t get a retirement send-off as some wrestlers do.
When Triple H was on Stephanie’s podcast, he spoke about being told he couldn’t wrestle again and how they had to put a defibrillator in him.
“There’s a moment in that where you lose who you are. You’re larger than life, you’re strong, you’re healthy. You could f*cking run through a wall anytime you want to and all that sh*t. You’re all of those things, that’s your identity, and all of that goes away. You’re seen as frail. It just all changes.
I remember when they had the conversation with me when they said we’re gonna put a defibrillator in and the reasons why so that means you would never wrestle again, like you can’t, you have to not do physicality. That didn’t even faze me. I was still alive, still had you, still had the kids, that’s what mattered. The rest of it was just stuff.”
Prior to the heart issue, Triple H had no health issues and was in great shape throughout his adult life, so it was a massive scare.
Nearly Losing Triple H Changed Stephanie McMahon’s Life
Following Triple H’s health issues and comeback, Stephanie McMahon left her WWE office job to spend more time with her family. Their daughters lead busy lives and she wants to be a mom who is present in their lives.
During Stephanie’s What’s Your Story podcast with Natalya as a guest, Stephanie explained how hard it was to go through Triple H’s health issues.
“When I almost lost Paul… that’s my husband, that’s my everything… it just really reframed my whole perspective on what mattered. And I don’t really care if he takes out the trash or not. It’s been enough time now where I’m starting to get annoyed again…”
Stephanie would go on to mention the nickname given to the health issue Triple H had.
“It’s called the Widowmaker for a reason.”
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