Vince McMahon Helped Braun Strowman Overcome Suicidal Thoughts

I kind of just busted in on Vince one day in a meeting and was like, “I need to talk to you,” and he kicked everybody out of a production meeting and sat down and talked to me, not like boss to employee, but like like man to man, like almost like a father-son talk. He gave me such a level of confidence and reassurance in myself that day. It lit a completely new fire underneath my ass to be better at this, to continue to work my ass off because I knew it was for a cause. I got to the point where I was feeling like I was doing all this hard work and I was just spinning my tires in the mud and Vince reassured me that that’s not what was happening and told me like, “Hey, not only do I want you here for the long haul, I need you here for the long haul.”

I’m very thankful to have a relationship with him like that because I might not even be here. There was, I don’t even like talking about this out loud, I was thinking about killing myself a couple of times, and it’s just, it’s shitty that I got to that point and I should have talked to somebody sooner, and I never knew how much he cared about me. I thought I was just, you know, a number in the system, and that day he made me realize that I’m more important than just a number. I can’t thank him enough for doing that.”
Braun Strowman