There was nothing "not real" about that scene. Those chair shots were very real, that blood was very real, that pain was very real. That's why his wife got so upset. That's why she's screaming in fear. That's all very 'real'. She was both horrified about what her husband was allowing to be done to himself, and disgusted that he put his family in a position to see it. Foley knew he was panning this series of vicious head shots, and has admitted that one of the biggest mistakes of his life was allowing his wife & children to sit ringside and watch him be maimed.
I guess when they showed his head split open in the locker room, that wasn't real either. Neither were the stitches. Or the concussion.
Anyway, these types of chairshots to the head are now frowned upon in wrestling because of the very real damage they cause. I had no problem with the reactions from the wife, and if anything, I have an issue with how far Foley and The Rock went with the brutality.