In an interview with Sports Illustrated 17 years after his departure from the WWE following the infamous Montreal Screwjob incident, WWE Hall of Famer Bret “The Hitman” Hart commented on being filmed on the night, Shawn Michaels and Earl Hebner, Vince McMahon’s comments and more.

Highlights of the interview are below:

On being filmed on the night of the incident: “I said to the camera crew, I want you to film my last match in Canada next week. They scrambled to see if their passes from WWE were still effective and it turned out they were good for the whole year, so that whole camera crew shows up through the back door with me at the Survivor Series pay-per-view and it totally caught Vince off-guard, he didn’t know they were still shooting or that they’d even be there.”

On not being aware of being double-crossed and why he doesn’t blame Earl Hebner: “I would have choked Shawn out in the middle of the ring, I would have front-face locked him and ended the match. Before I went in the ring, I told myself that I’d never let them put a submission hold on me, but because I hard Earl as the referee and I trusted that he wouldn’t screw me, I wasn’t too worried about that any more, that was my big mistake.”

On Shawn Michaels denying any involvement at the time and Vince McMahon lying regarding the Screwjob incident: “Vince said straight to me, this is the first time I’ve ever had to lie to one of my talent, to which I said, are you kidding me, then I rattled off on every finger about ten different lies he had told me in the last week. Vince told me, what I did to you today won’t hurt you, you’ll still get all the money you’re supposed to get from WCW.”

The interview is available in full at this link.