After Being Forced To Retire Due To Injury, WWE Did Not Apologize To Star For 18 Months, says Natalya

A WWE star was forced to retire from the company and wrestling due to a spinal cord injury. He was neither apologized to nor asked about his health for 18 months.Wrestling is often a risky form of entertainment. Those who take part in it do so at the risk of life and limb. That's exactly what happened to Tyson Kidd, aka TJ Wilson, who was forced to retire after a botched move in a dark match brought his career to an end. His wife, WWE veteran Natalya, wrote about it in her new book.She talked about how WWE was not apologizing to him and how that affected Kidd's emotional health. It went on for 18 months, and then, when Kidd was speaking to Triple H about a misunderstanding, he brought it up. It was then that The Game stepped in to resolve the issues."And while their conversation started about one thing, it bled into another, as Hunter asked TJ how he was. 'Honestly,' TJ told him, 'I don’t understand how I can get an apology about an app, but not about my neck.' Hunter fell silent. Maybe he knew it wasn’t right. Then he asked, 'Can you leave it with me?' TJ knew that, at this point in Hunter’s career, he wasn’t the overall decision maker—he was just the person asked to relay messages from Vince. But TJ agreed to let Hunter handle it.Vince McMahon then contacted the star and said he was now apologizing to him, going against his team to do so, putting potential legal issues aside."He wasn’t even sure what that meant, as he’d been told by his lawyer not to expect any movement from WWE’s side unless our side filed a lawsuit. but the next day, Vince texted TJ, eighteen months after he broke his neck. He said he was so sorry for what happened, and that he was going against the advice of his team by apologizing, but felt it was the right thing to do."Then-WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and Tyson Kidd Worked Things OutThe apology helped Kidd accept what had happened, and he even spoke to Vince McMahon closely after that. He accepted WWE's job offer and became a producer at the company."Vince missed a Monday Night Raw taping and flew to meet TJ in person and talk. The conversation went well, and TJ felt Vince was very sincere in his regret about how everything was handled. I think they found a lot of common ground, and Vince came to learn and appreciate a lot more about TJ and his outlook on life-how TJ was someone with an extraordinary amount of drive, a survivor but never a victim. Vince said he’d help TJ do whatever he wanted to do in the company, as soon as TJ figured out what that was."The company has now found itself in the middle of controversy again by releasing an injured star.