A former WWE star has claimed that she had to quit the company because she felt bullied.
Krissy Vaine, who was part of WWE between 2006 and 2007, recently appeared on the Wrestling with Heart podcast. She spoke about her time with the company and stated that she had to leave WWE within a few weeks after getting called up from the developmental system. She made her first televised appearance on the September 28, 2007, episode of SmackDown by attacking Torrie Wilson.
“I was the first one from developmental to get brought up. We all got shipped to FCW. Some people got let go, some people… whatever happened, happened. I was now in FCW with the Bellas and Nattie. I think Nattie and I were the only two left standing from Deep South.
“So they call me up and I’m like the first out of my class. There’s no social media then to where I could form any friendships, so I go up, and I felt like I was bullied.
“I should have been tougher than I was. I should have had tools, I probably likely should have told a higher-up what was happening, but I’m also from the generation that… we don’t tell. If somebody’s being s**tty to you, you either tough it out or, like, go.”
Krissy Vaine felt she would’ve gotten destroyed if she had gone on WWE’s European Tour
Krissy Vaine stated further that WWE had planned a three-week European tour, two weeks after her debut. However, he felt that the other stars in the locker room would’ve destroyed her if she had gone.
“After two weeks of that, I was supposed to be on a three-week European tour and I said, ‘There is no way that I can go on a three-week European tour. These people are going to destroy me.’
“It was hard for me because I’m from a small town, I was always on homecoming court and cheerleading, very popular, same on the indies.
“So I didn’t realize at the time that people that were being ugly to me, it was just like jealousy, or a, ‘Let’s get her out of here’ thing, because I was obviously getting pushed into a big storyline that I did not know. I wasn’t privy to that information.
“So I ended up quitting before the three-week European tour.
“And I was already taking a lot of Xanax at that time to numb everything. We didn’t do therapy back then. We didn’t do mental health. So it was really challenging. I was on so much Xanax that I couldn’t feel anything, so I was like, ‘Screw it, I’m just gonna walk away.’” [H/T: WrestleTalk]