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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Patrick Clark On Allegations, Arrests & Apologies

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Clark (@patrickjr) is a professional wrestler known for his time in WWE from 2015-2021 where he performed under the ring name Velveteen Dream in NXT. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Los Angeles, CA for his first interview since being released from WWE and opens up about the apology video he posted on January 2, the allegations made against him in 2020, being labeled as a "pedophile" and "groomer", his arrests in 2022, spending time in jail, whether he wants to wrestle again and more. For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests.  Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All systems are gathered.

0:01.3

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Bluie!

0:10.0

Patrick, you posted this apology video, January 2nd of this year.

0:15.0

I think a lot of people are asking, why three years before putting out that video?

0:22.2

Um, it's a great question.

0:24.8

Three years, I always say that it takes everyone the time that it takes us.

0:30.0

Everyone's got their own process.

0:31.9

My process just happened to be three years.

0:34.5

I'm in a much better place in my life now, both geographically, mentally and

0:39.6

emotionally, and physically, to be quite honest. And being away from what I'm used to, the city,

0:48.0

moving away from Orlando, Florida, and just taking time away from professional wrestling

0:53.7

to figure out who Patrick Clark is for the first time in his life without pro wrestling in the back of his head.

1:01.0

I think that's what's given me the three years that I needed to write my wrongs.

1:08.0

And you can't write all the wrongs but it starts somewhere and I thought an

1:12.7

apology to the victims to the people who I affected on a personal and professional level was the way to

1:19.5

go you said in that video that you needed to apologize why did you feel like you needed to? Well, I need,

1:28.1

the need to apologize is there because so many different people, like I'm saying,

1:33.2

have been affected by this.

1:35.9

Those who have had disparaging such negative, nasty comments about me in the public form, they don't realize that other people

1:46.8

are affected just through the power of the word of the mouth. I apologize to the WWE.

1:55.4

WWE is a company. It's an organization put together as the tagline goes to put smiles onto other people's

2:03.6

faces, to take them away from their reality and their day-to-day struggles and negativities.

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