Stephanie McMahon has shared the story of how Triple H proposed and what her husband is like away from the cameras. The couple married in October 2003.
The topic came up during a fan mailbag segment on What’s Your Story? with Steph McMahon, recorded around her 50th birthday. Asked what Triple H is like at home compared to how fans see him, McMahon said fans have already seen many sides of him.
“You’ve seen him in DX, you’ve seen him behind the scenes in Unreal. You’ve seen him, you know, like in so many different variations that I think you are kind of exposed to his personality in different ways,” McMahon said.
“If you’ve been paying attention, which I obviously do very closely, I love my husband more than anything in the world. You know, different from the love I have for my children. This is my husband. This is my partner. He’s my person. He’s my soulmate. He’s my everything, and I am so blessed,” she added.
McMahon said the side of him fans may not know is his heart.
“He’s really funny, right? But like you know that from DX, he’s really, really smart. Which of course you know that in general anyway. But I guess maybe what people don’t know is how huge his heart is, and his heart is what I fell in love with first, and the way he treats kids, the way he respects people, the way he goes, the way he supports women. He has taught me so much. He always holds me to my highest standard. He brings out the best in me and everybody around him,” McMahon said.
“He sees talent in not just wrestling talent, but he sees talent in people that they don’t even know is there in themselves, and he brings it out of them. You know, like he’s so giving, so unselfish, and he’s an amazing girl dad,” she added.
Another fan asked how Triple H proposed. McMahon said the story started during his recovery from his first quad tear, which kept him out from May 2001 until his return at Madison Square Garden in January 2002.
“So going back to when he was recovering from his quad tear, his first quad tear, and we were now like fully an item, and it was right before he came back, literally like maybe a few weeks before the Garden, and he took his first vacation in however long. And we went to this island in Florida, and it rained the entire time,” McMahon said.
“But we had splurged, and there was a chef, and he kept playing Sade, ‘By Your Side,’ and Paul, who never danced ever, asked me to dance, and I was like, ‘Oh my god!’ I mean, I love this guy. I always loved him, even though I didn’t know it. And there we are dancing, and I thought to myself, ‘If we ever get married, this will be our wedding song,'” she said.
“So I told him that, and that when he was gone, often I would play that song, and I would like imagine him there, and I would kind of dance around the room or whatever,” McMahon added.
She said Triple H later asked her father, Vince McMahon, for permission at Christmas. He planned the proposal for just before Valentine’s Day 2003 because he had to be on the road.
“I remember I had a terrible migraine that day, and but I knew I was going to dinner, and at the last minute, he told me to pack an overnight bag,” McMahon said.
“We go to this hotel and on the bed are rose petals in like a heart, but I just think he’s being romantic, and he asked me to order room service right while he’s doing whatever, and so I order room service, and I’m like, okay, whatever, and looking around this like amazing room that we’re in, and he then brings out, you know, like a boombox, which is like a little mini fridge size speaker on the shoulder, and he plays Sade, and he asks me to dance, and while ‘By Your Side’ is playing, he was like shaking, and I remember thinking, like, ‘Oh my god, he hates to dance so much that he’s shaking, but he’s doing it for me. Like how sweet is this?’ And the song ended, and he got down on his knee, and he asked me to marry him,” she said.
McMahon said she didn’t answer right away.
“And I was silent. I was silent. I was like in shock. When I’m really, like, surprised, I go quiet, you know. But I was freaking out on the inside, you know. And he asked me, and it was so beautiful, and I just didn’t say anything. And he’s like, ‘Is that yes?’ And I was like, ‘Yes, yes, yes,'” McMahon said.
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