Billy Corgan and the NWA received criticism last year following the NWA Samhain pay-per-view when they had a controversial moment on the show that reportedly put the NWA’s TV deal with The CW Network in jeopardy.
That infamous spot was when Jim Mitchel was at a table with women around him drinking alcohol, and it looked like Mitchell was snorting cocaine off the table before passing it around to everyone around him.
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At the time, it reportedly upset people at the network, and there was a movement to get the NWA Powerrr program moved from the network to the app. The NWA didn’t announce a deal with the network then, but they were in deep talks with the CW, which eventually airs on the CW App.
While speaking to Fightful’s Jeremy Lambert & Joel Pearl on In The Weeds, the NWA owner discussed the situation.
“After the ‘cocaine spot’ where Sinister Minister and his hot minions were snorting sugar off a table in Cleveland, that story took a life of its own. ‘NWA is going to lose its CW deal, they’ve lost their CW deal.’ About four days after the event, CW, I don’t want to say who, but certainly one of the top people at CW called me and said, ‘What is this all about?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. No one for your world has reached out to me.’ He said, ‘There is no problem over here. We’re reading all these articles and we don’t understand what the issue is.’ ‘So, to be official, there is no issue with what we did?’ ‘No, we think it’s funny.’ There was no issue. It was a completely invented story by either a troll inside the company, a leaker or something.”
Corgan continued by recalling how he joked that people were more upset about that than hypothetically taking a cheese grater to somebody’s head. He was annoyed by the fake rumors because they put his company in a negative light when they didn’t do anything wrong.
Corgan’s reality series, “Adventures in Carnyland,” had its premiere on the CW App today for fans to watch.
