Jackie Redmond Had No Idea The Rock Would Be Involved In WrestleMania XL Kickoff Backstage Interview, ‘That Was A Very Real Reaction From Me’

Jackie Redmond did not know about The Rock’s involvement in her segment with Triple H.

The WrestleMania 40 Kickoff Show featured an explosive segment between The Rock, Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins, and Roman Reigns. After the chaos died down, Jackie Redmond attempted to interview Triple H backstage, but was interrupted by Rock and Reigns, who dropped multiple expletives.

Speaking with Chris Van Vliet for a new interview, Redmond recalled the moment and said that she had no idea Rock was going to be involved in the interview.

“The jaw drop, the most natural crazy jaw drop of my entire life. The crazy thing about that situation was I didn’t even know I was interviewing Triple H until eight minutes before that. So we’re getting close to the end of this presser, and a producer comes up to me and is like, ‘Hey, we weren’t planning for this, but some sh*t is about to go down, and I think we need to hear from Hunter after this. We need him to give us something to kind of put a cap on everything that’s going on.’ So okay, that’s no problem. ‘So just pay attention. As soon as it’s done, he’s gonna come out of Gorilla, and he knows he’s gonna chat with you to get this instant live reaction from the craziness that just happened.’ So I find that out late, and I’m like, oh. I’m still only a year into this job, maybe. So for me, Hunter is still a very intimidating presence. I’ve met him, I’ve talked to him. He’s lovely, but we’re not buds. I don’t know him that well. I’m like, Oh man, I’m interviewing Hunter, can’t blow this, this has to be good. And then I interview him, and I like, I should know better at this point that basically 99% of the time when I’m interviewing someone, it will be interrupted, that’s pretty much a staple of what I do. But I had no idea that Dwayne The Rock mother f*cking Johnson was gonna come out, yell at Hunter and drop F bombs all on live television. People do not believe me to this day, that I did not know The Rock was gonna do that. I did not know, hand to God did not know that that was gonna happen. And so when it did, that was a very real reaction from me. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I felt like I was teleported back to being 10 years old, it’s the Attitude Era and The Rock and Triple H are yelling at each other. What is going on? It was a very surreal, surreal moment for me. I don’t say that a lot, like that was one where I was like is this my life right now?”

The Rock ended up teaming with Roman Reigns to face Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins during night one of WrestleMania XL. The following night, Rock was also involved in Reigns’ Bloodline Rules match with Rhodes.

Back in December, Redmond reacted to the result of John Cena’s final match. Fans can check out her full comments here.

Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet and his team for the quote(s) provided in this article.