Nic Nemeth has confirmed that he had heat with Vince McMahon.

Nemeth, who previously worked in WWE as Dolph Ziggler until his release in September of last year, recently appeared on the “Talk is Jericho” podcast to explain why he and his former boss weren’t ever on the same page.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On reports that he had heat with McMahon: “Let me squash that rumor, because it’s a fact.”

On Pat Patterson’s advocacy getting him heat: “It got to a point where he was pitching for me so much for years that the second highest [executive] that there could be in a meeting at that point was like, ‘Yeah, we’re just to a point where we’re just making you lose just to watch his face.’ And I go, ‘Oh, that’s not a great way to run the company.’”