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Howard Stern spoke to John Cena about the situation. Stern talked about similar things to people he was close with and finding out horrible things they had done and called is a mindf***. He said that in some cases even though he was close to the person, he could no longer be friends with them. He asked Cena about McMahon. Cena said, “I can say this: I'm a big advocate of love and friendship and honesty and communication. But in the same breath, I'm also a big advocate of accountability. I think you explained it well, if someone's behavior lies so far outside your value system that the balance shifts, of like, 'I can't operate in a world where this works,' that's the end result of being accountable.” Stern asked Cena how he personally would handle it and he said, “Right now, what I'm going to do is love the person I love, be their friend. And by that it means like, 'Hey, I love you, you have a hill to climb.' There's the saying of 'you don't know who your friends are until the s**t hits the fan' or your back's against the wall. That doesn't make any of what's going on any easier to swallow but just telling somebody like, 'Hey, I love you. Man, this is going to be a hill to climb. We're going to see what happens and that's that.' It sounds so cliche but it has to be one day at a time. But at the same token, I've openly said I love the guy, I have a great relationship with the guy, so that's that.” Cena came off very badly, showing no sympathy at all for the alleged victim even if he refused to renounce his friendship with McMahon. The other issue is the text messages are damning and you can’t get past them, and this isn’t a singular situation but a series of them dating back decades. At the same time, there are similarities with this case and Bill Cosby, and those who worked with Cosby backed him far more than those who worked with McMahon.
