MGM would drop him like a hot rock. Von Stroheim didn't know 'The Kid' and I were drinking buddies. Von Stroheim was your typical German, know-it-all... 
son-of-a-bitch who couldn't pour piss out of a boot when it came to women--
Of course, Irving also had no idea I was also banging Norma... 
and there is not any truth at all to the vile rumor that Norma spilled the beans on that that Labor Day weekend they had in Monterey, California, in 1936 just before Irving died.