‘I was forced into oral sex with…’, former WWF referee Rita Chatterton’s rape accusation covered in Netflix docuseries Mr. McMahon

Talking about the Netflix documentary ‘Mr. McMahon’, during episode two, former referee Rita Chatterton’s rape accusation against Vince McMahon in 1986 is briefly covered.

New Delhi: Talking about the Netflix documentary ‘Mr. McMahon’, during episode two, former WWF referee Rita Chatterton’s rape accusation against Vince McMahon in 1986 is briefly covered. There is a clip that takes us back to 1992 where Rita Chatterton’s appearance on Geraldo Rivera’s television show in 1992 where she said about Vince McMahon.

‘I was forced into oral sex with Vince McMahon. When I couldn’t complete his desires, he got really angry and started ripping off my jeans, pulled me on top of him, and told me again, if I wanted to have a million-dollar-a-year contract, I had to satisfy him. And if I didn’t satisfy him, I was blackballed. I was scared. My wrist was all black-and-blue. He just didn’t stop.’ said Rita Chatterton.

In the making of the documentary, the producers of Mr. McMahon asked Vince in 2021 about Chatterton’s rape allegation, he responded with what I think might be the most disturbing quote from him in the entire six-part docuseries:

“Once you’re accused of rape, you’re a rapist. But it was consensual. And actually, had it been a rape, um, the statute of limitations had run out. So, I mean, it’s all kind of crap like that that people are digging up and trying to find something on you.”

According to Vince McMahon, he thinks it’s theoretically okay to use the statute of limitations to dismiss a rape allegation as “crap…that people are digging up” is extremely disturbing, at least to my ears.

In 2022, the year after Vince’s interview with Netflix, a New York law changed that temporarily allowed victims of sex crimes to file lawsuits that would have been otherwise forbidden by the statute of limitations. Chatterton sued McMahon, and Vince reportedly reached a multi-million dollar legal settlement with her by January 2023.