Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon is looking back at the late Hulk Hogan’s racism scandal in 2015, insisting that, at heart, Hogan wasn’t a racist.

“It was unforgivable. And I was, like, aghast. What happened?” McMahon, 79, said on TMZ Presents: The Real Hulk Hogan, a new documentary on the wrestling icon that aired Tuesday, August 12, on Fox.

McMahon continued, “And when those things occurred, that’s not like him. What in God’s name is going on?”

Hogan — real name Terry Bollea — was fired by WWE and removed from the company’s Hall of Fame in July 2015 after audio emerged of him repeatedly using the N-word and describing himself as “racist, to a point.”

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McMahon, who was in charge of WWE at the time, said, “As soon as it happened, o

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