EC3 has claimed that he once caught Velveteen Dream trying to record explicit videos of fellow WWE stars without their consent.
After appearing in the sixth series of WWE Tough Enough, Patrick Clark signed with the company in 2015. Following a handful of appearances, the star was repackaged as the Velveteen Dream in 2017 and went on to win the North American Championship.
However, Clark was last seen on television in December 2020 and was later released the following May. At the time of his release, Clark was facing accusations of serious sexual misconduct. It had been alleged that the star sent explicit photos of himself to minors. Clark denied the allegations.
However, controversy has continued to follow the star and he was recently arrested on August 20th for First Degree Battery and Trespassing. He was arrested again just six days later on charges relating to possessing drug paraphernalia. This second arrest is reportedly tied into a conviction in November 2021 on drug-related charges.
One man who worked with Velveteen Dream during his time in NXT was EC3, with the pair competing NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn IV in 2028.
Speaking during an appearance on Sportskeeda’s “The Wrestling Outlaws” show EC3 reflected on Dream’s legal issues before recalling one troubling incident which allegedly took place at a house party. EC3 claims that the ex-NXT star left his phone in the bathroom in an attempt to film explicit videos of his colleagues without their consent.
“He got arrested again. When’s he gonna get rehired? Probably not if that’s on his record, plus he has a lot of demons in the closet. Oh, what do you mean? I’m glad you asked, why not? Because in NXT there was always some speculation about him being a little off, but you welcome that. You can be friends,”
“We had a party and it was at my place, and he came over because I’m being friendly and I’m top guy and I tried to welcome everybody into the thing. He left his phone in my bathroom with the camera on trying to capture people taking pi**es, so there.”
“How did I know? Because it’s my bathroom. When I walk in there and I see a phone selfie-style, propped up, on, filming, where if somebody is going to take a pee, they would have their phallus out urinating into the water…”
“I’m not gonna lie to you, too, this was a late evening of partying, so maybe there were a few cocktails shared, who knows what everyone else was on. As we know, if he’ll do it in front of a cop, lord only knows what he’ll do behind a cop’s back.”
EC3 went on to explain how he dealt with the situation, describing how he deleted the offending videos before telling everyone to leave.
“I’m like, ‘What is going on? Am I tripping?’ I shouldn’t be because I don’t do drugs that would trip me out, so I’m like, ‘This is actually happening.’” EC3 added, “What I did was I took the phone, I stopped the recording, I made sure the pee pee video of my wee wee was deleted because that was happening in my home, by the way.”
“So delete, put it back, turn it back on so it looked like it was still happening… ha ha, the big elaborate ruse… I walk out of my own bathroom because this is where I live, I sit on the couch, I go and I wait, and he goes right back in the bathroom,” said EC3. “I go back in right after that… phone’s gone. I’m like, ‘I can’t believe this.’”
“Here’s the problem. Unnamed talents, that I will not name, in this moment in time were probably doing other things in that bathroom, so instead of a blatant confrontation, I just said, ‘Everybody get out, I’m going to bed, go, get out.’”
In the aftermath of the incident EC3 said that he felt violated before telling a select few people what had happened.
“Select people that were there, I informed of what happened. As I was informing them, that was where I would therefore be confronting on my next step, because I wanted them to know first before. What do you do with something like this?” EC3 continued, “I’m an adult male who’s been violated in his own home, in a sense, and who knows what else is going on.”
EC3 added that someone accused him of making the recordings, before revealing that this all took place before their match in Brooklyn.
“These guys need to know,” stated EC3. “Well, one of them is still his buddy, tells him this, and now it’s like a dramatic thing where someone’s like blaming me for recording myself, and I’m like, ‘You know what, whatever, this is ridiculous,’ but guess what? I’m a professional, so I go to be a professional and we have a mini-feud and it goes into Brooklyn TakeOver where, as a professional, you give your body to your opponent.”
During the conversation EC3 said that he suffered a severe concussion early on in the match.
H/t to Sportskeeda for the transcription.