Velveteen Dream Says WWE Told Him to Stay Silent During Allegations While Locker Room Stayed Quiet

Patrick Clark is continuing to open up—and now he’s addressing one of the most painful chapters of his wrestling career: the silence that followed him during a storm of allegations and online backlash.

In the same interview with LiMPiN AiNT EASY w/ Timmy Baltimore, the former Velveteen Dream spoke about how alone he felt during the scandal that ultimately derailed his WWE career. He said that not only did his co-workers remain quiet, but WWE management also advised him to do the same. Clark remembered how isolating it felt:

“None of my co-workers spoke up for me… ’cause I feel like that puts almost an energy in the air of, ‘Well, everybody’s saying these things and no one’s going to speak up for you,’ because I wasn’t even speaking up for myself.”

He said WWE officials told him to keep quiet and let the company handle the situation:

“I was told in that process to be quiet. ‘We will handle everything.’”

Clark claimed WWE leadership did address the matter internally, citing a post-show meeting held by Triple H during an NXT TakeOver event:

“Paul had a post-show meeting at a TakeOver and addressed it and said, ‘We found nothing.’ And that was it.”

Clark said that at the time, this internal resolution gave him peace because he trusted the process:

“It was enough for me because I trust the company and I always trust the company. Because again, they used me for a whole year. They tried to make it work. They couldn’t get past the Fire Velveteen Dream hashtag. So, they had to make a business decision.”

But not everyone agreed with how Clark handled the silence. He recalled Tommaso Ciampa confronting him in the gym, urging him to speak out directly.

“People wanted answers. And Tommaso Ciampa told me that. Like, ‘You need to address this, dude. I remember he walked up to me in the gym and was like, ‘Dude, you need to address this. Like, what are you waiting for?’” And I was like, ‘I’m waiting on them.’ They told me not to do nothing.”

Ciampa didn’t seem satisfied with that, which caused Clark to second-guess the company’s handling of the situation:

“He’s like, ‘I don’t know about that.’ And I was just like, ‘Who are they protecting, right?’”

Clark then compared the wrestling industry to a closed system, making it harder to see clearly from the inside:

“And I didn’t see that. Wrestling is such a bubble. It reminds me of that… I always say the Simpsons movie where they put the dome over Springfield. That is wrestling.”

For those not aware, back In 2020 Clark faced allegations of inappropriate conduct involving underage individuals, including accusations of sending explicit messages. Screenshots and claims made their way online, igniting a viral #FireVelveteenDream campaign. WWE reportedly investigated the matter at the time and stated it found no evidence of wrongdoing. Still, the perception damage was done, and Clark’s name became toxic within parts of the wrestling community.

Despite continuing to appear on NXT for several months after the accusations surfaced, Clark eventually vanished from TV before being officially released by WWE in May 2021. The fallout from those accusations—combined with his own silence and WWE’s vague internal handling—left fans and fellow wrestlers divided on what really happened behind the scenes.

Clark’s revelations shed light on the emotional and psychological toll of silence—both his own and others’—during a career-defining crisis. It’s a look into how public scandal, corporate strategy, and peer pressure collided to silence a once-rising star.