Jerry “The King” Lawler on Hardest ‘WrestleMania’ Celebrity Guest to Work With

Jerry “The King” Lawler was a guest on The Ross Report with Jim Ross where he spoke about the most difficult celebrity guest WWE had to work with for ‘WrestleMania’ and a story on getting mad at Michael Cole during their commentating days.

Lawler first comments on who he believes was the most difficult celebrity he, Ross and the company had to deal with for the ‘WrestleMania’ festivities:

“Aretha Franklin is still alive. Remember what a pain in the butt she was at WrestleMania that year? Oh my gosh! Way passed her glory days, but still the biggest diva that we’d ever seen. Very high maintenance, Aretha Franklin.”

Lawler also spoke at length about an incident during his days as a commentator where he got furious with Cole:

“We could do a whole show about the things we know that Vince either told [Ross] to say or told Michael Cole to say. The most embarrassing one that I can remember, and later on I went to him and I went, ‘what the hell, man?’ and he said, ‘I swear, Vince told me to say it. I swear. You know I never would have thought about it.’ And it was the time Mark Henry picked me up, and I don’t know if I was wrestling Mark or what happened, but anyway, he picked me up and slammed me through the announce table and they carried me out or whatever. And then, after the break, he said, ‘we want to give you an update on ‘The King’. He’s not doing too well’ and then he says, ‘he’s suffering from anal bleeding.’ So that’s when I went to Cole afterwards and said, ‘what the hell are you doing.’ He said, ‘I swear, Vince told me to say it.'”