WWE's now-infamous Katie Vick storyline began during an October 2002 episode of RAW. Triple H and Kane had started feuding, prompting The Game to reveal that the Big Red Machine had once killed a young woman named Katie Vick.
Kane later confessed that Katie had died during a car accident; he didn't kill her, it was all just a horrible tragedy. Triple H was having none of it, eventually accusing the babyface of raping the woman either when she was still alive...or dead.
The whole thing was gross and tasteless and culminated in Triple H, dressed as Kane, pretending to have sex with a mannequin in a coffin. Fans weren't impressed, backlash followed, and WWE quickly moved on from one of its worst-ever angles.
Former backstage interviewer and commentator Jonathan Coachman was on hand for the whole thing and recently shared his take on how things played out in an interview with Chris Val Vliet.
"I’m telling you right now, and anybody will tell you this, if it was Michael Cole sitting here, that if Vince was still involved, people are still terrified of him. I’m not proud of the fact that I never told him no, this is one of the things that I’ve told you on and off camera. There’s a lot of things I should have said no to. That was one of the most repulsive, disgusting storylines of all time."
"During that time, Vince would go down a road and everything he was doing was hitting, whether it was the milk truck, whether it was the cement truck with the Corvette, all of that stuff. So let’s just keep going. Let’s do shock TV. I can tell you this, because they shot that off-site so nobody had seen it until it ran on the show. And backstage, you could hear people just groaning because it was so incredibly bad. And if you put a lie detector on Triple H today, he would probably tell you the same thing."
Triple H has expressed regret over being involved in the angle and WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross has called it an embarrassment. Unfortunately, it was yet another low point of Vince McMahon's time in charge and will likely forever be remembered for how bad it was.
The video below features plenty more insights from Coach about his time in WWE so we'd strongly recommend giving it a watch.