Cody Rhodes finally admitted what really happened to Chelsea Green’s drunk WWE podcast episode — and it turns out the whole corrupted footage story was BS. Green’s original appearance on What Do You Wanna Talk About? never aired, and after months of being told the recording was lost, Rhodes has now confessed that the footage was perfectly fine.
As Ringside News previously covered, Rhodes admitted back in April that three podcast episodes featuring Alexa Bliss, Big E, and Chelsea Green were scrapped after the drinks got out of hand. During Green’s new appearance on the podcast, Cody brought up those missing recordings again, admitting he was responsible for the problems with Bliss and Big E’s episodes.
“And Alexa Bliss being a famous one, because her episode is great. And she talks about a bunch of phenomenal stuff that people probably needed to hear. I was the problem on the Alexa Bliss episode though. I was.”
That’s when Green decided to put Rhodes on the spot about her own episode. She had been drinking on her birthday when they originally recorded the interview, and she wasn’t buying the excuse that the footage had been corrupted. Rhodes finally gave her the answer she’d been waiting for.
Chelsea Green: “Are you going to admit that the file wasn’t corrupt?”
Cody Rhodes: “The file was not corrupt.”
Chelsea Green: “I knew it wasn’t corrupt! I knew everyone was fucking lying to me.”
Green then asked whether the real reason her episode was scrapped was because she got drunk and spent the entire interview giving Rhodes hell. Cody didn’t exactly deny it, admitting that her answers were nothing like what he expected.
Chelsea Green: “Is it because I got drunk because it was my birthday and I berated you for an hour and a half on your own podcast?”
Cody Rhodes: “It could be the reason why.”
Green reminded Rhodes that he was the one who asked her to work on her birthday, and she wasn’t about to apologize for having a few drinks. When Cody asked how she felt knowing the footage was never corrupted, she made it clear she’d known something was up all along.
“I knew it wasn’t the whole time. I knew you guys were lying to me. I knew you were dirty, dirty liars, and I knew that that’s why. And I told everyone that. I spread the word.”
Rhodes eventually admitted they were trying to protect both Green and the podcast, adding that he’d love for some of the original footage to surface someday — just not the entire recording. He also explained that Green had spent much of the first interview cracking jokes and dodging serious questions about her wrestling career, which made the conversation difficult to handle.
“We had to protect you and the podcast. And I am just as guilty on this. He talks about it all the time. I’d love if some of this footage could show up maybe somewhere, but not in its entirety.”
So there you have it. Chelsea Green’s drunk birthday interview wasn’t lost to some technical disaster, and Cody Rhodes finally admitted they deliberately kept it off the air. Now that they’ve recorded another episode, the question is whether WWE will ever let fans see just how wild the original interview actually got.
Do you think Cody Rhodes and WWE should release Chelsea Green’s original drunk podcast episode, or was keeping it off the air the right call? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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