Stacey Kiebler Sets The Record Straight
Stacy Keibler set the record straight on Monday by announcing on WCW.com that the Internet beach rumor, was correct in a sense, but wrong in another sense. Here is Stacy's side of the story.
"I had these plans for a while with a bunch of people to go down to the beach last week," Keibler told WCW.com. "I got the sheet last Tuesday afternoon that I had to work the house shows, and I was supposed to leave the next day to meet my friends. I was thinking, 'Oh my God -- what do I do?' They didn't think we were going to be on house shows at this point. So I talked to J.R., and told him about my prior plans, and he said it was OK, because they were going to announce the Bra and Panties match the following week, and that way we can put you on the house shows the following weekend so you girls can work together. And I said, 'That's great -- you can put me on every house show for the rest of the year if you want to!'"
After returning from her vacation, however, Keibler was shocked to find out that various Internet sites were reporting that she had heat with management, for allegedly no-showing live events in North Charleston, S.C., and Augusta, Ga.
"I come to the arena last Monday and I say hi to everyone, and everyone's not like 'Hi Stacy, how are you?' -- it's more like, 'Hey,' and then they'd just walk by," Keibler said. "I'm like, 'What's going on here?' So I go to get something to eat, and one of the wrestlers is like, 'How was the beach?' And I'm like, 'Oh, it was good.' And I go in the hallway and one of the guys grabs me and says, 'Stacy, don't worry about that Internet stuff. The office usually just laughs it off anyway.' I was like, 'Oh my God, am I in trouble?' And he's like, 'No, you're not in trouble.' And then I started thinking, how did everyone know I went to the beach?"
The Internet rumors ran so rampant that Jim Ross even addressed them in last Friday's Ross Report on WWF.com. But Keibler says that Federation officials – including J.R. – have yet to even mention the incident to her, and that it has been business as usual around the backstage area.
Keibler said that she did get some heat in the locker room from her fellow competitors, but she thinks it was more of a precautionary measure.