Interviewing Mick Foley Part 2

I went to the English office and asked the head of the department if it would be possible for me to interview him. She said something along the lines of ‘he seems really nice, but I’d like to ask him first before saying you can’ which was perfectly understandable. If my memory serves me correctly she may have called then but got no answer, but basically I didn’t have a definitive answer.



The excitement was building in me already, the nervousness was already there even though I didn’t even know if he would do it or not. I was waiting on the approval, waiting for the ok, waiting to know if I could interview him.



I checked back after a few days to see if she had gotten his approval, she had spoken to him but didn’t get a chance to ask him. I was a little annoyed and worried, not sure if I would be able to interview him. Would I get the opportunity?



Days went by, anticipation building; he was coming in only a few days now. I had to start coming up with my questions to ask him. Was he going to answer them? Was I even going to get a single word to him? What was going to happen? I had no idea.



Shortly before the interview a MAJOR backstage story occurred. Matt Hardy had been fired by WWE. For those of you who don’t know the whole Hardy Lita Edge story, I’ll give you a condensed version here. Matt had been dating Lita for many years, Matt had been great friends with Edge, traveling together sharing hotel rooms etc. When Matt was out of action with an injury it came out that Lita had been fooling around with Edge. Matt decided to share the story on his web page, which then spread like crazy. It got back to WWE management, and shortly thereafter Matt was released from his WWE contract.



Knowing Mick was good friends with everyone involved, I wanted to hear his take on the issue. Also to confirm the issue at hand, but also wanted to be respectful. Asking people online about what questions I should ask everyone said ‘do not ask him about Matt Hardy’. Well fuck who are they to decide what I should and shouldn’t ask? The best solution in my mind was to come up with 2 different sets of questions; one for the Matt Hardy incident and another for just wrestling in general. I would give him the choice to answer or not.



Even though I had all my questions decided I still didn’t know if I would even get a chance to interview him or not. It was only one day away from the conference and I didn’t have my answer. I was getting worried, I talked with the head of the English department one last time, and she said she still hadn’t been able to ask him, but ‘he seems very nice and she’ll ask him when he gets there’ I was weary but what could I really do?