6. Chris Benoit Was Having An Affair With A Diva At The Time Of The Benoit Tragedy
The Legend: That Chris Benoit was having an adulterous affair with a WWE diva between 2006 - 2007. The Evidence: Chris and Nancy Benoit's relationship was the result of an adulterous affair: Kevin Sullivan, who was married to Nancy at the time, mandated that she and Chris should travel together when paired on-screen in WCW in 1996. Life imitated art when the two began a real-life affair. Nancy and Sullivan divorced in 1997. After the Benoit tragedy there was a lot of information reported about Chris and Nancy's personal life in the mainstream press. A lot of it was false. One interesting piece of information released was that Chris had been having an affair with an unnamed WWE diva during the final months of his life and that Nancy had found out about it. Some went so far as to speculate that it was a possible reason behind the tragedy. The question on everyone's lips, however, was: who was the diva that he supposedly had an affair with? Michelle McMcool and Victoria were two names mentioned, since they performed on the Smackdown brand with Benoit in 06/07. Irv Muchnick's controversial book Chris & Nancy published text messages that Benoit allegedly sent to another wrestler, requesting McCool's number. Is It True: Victoria addressed the rumours in a MySpace blog in June 2007. She stated:
A MySpace friend emailed me yesterday to let me know that a wrestling gossip website is claiming that they have an anonymous source or sources that say I was Chris Benoits secret mistress at the time of his murder-suicide. First let me say, this is absolutely false. I invite the reporter from that website to come to my home city, and I will submit myself to a polygraph.
So she categorically denied the rumours. As for McCool? She became involved with The Undertaker soon after the Benoit tragedy. She has never confirmed nor denied the rumours and there appears to be little substance to them. Hardcore Holly, whom Chris travelled with, said in his book that Benoit was not cheating on Nancy.
