During her recent chat with The Sessions, Ring Of Honor Women's World Champion and All Elite Wrestling star Athena reflected on her time in WWE, where she performed as Ember Moon.
Check out the comments from Athena below.
On the origins of Ember Moon:
“So it was Ember Moon, Ember Palmer, Ember Reese — playing off my husband’s name, my name. The final two were Ember Moon or Reese Palmer. I thought ‘Reese Witherspoon, Reese Palmer works.’ So those were the last two names I got to pick from. We didn’t really know where it was going and everything flowed together right as the first vignettes happened.”
On her early NXT vignettes:
“Honestly, I had no clue it was me in the first vignette at all. When you’re in the system, as we like to call it, the PC system or whatever, they were telling me ‘oh, this war goddess thing will never work,” I was just just doing something normal at the time. I just kinda ditched this ‘superhero-vigilante’ style character and went into something else. I literally remember watching TV and seeing this ‘the stars align for the perfect moment.’ I was like, this is cool, I wonder who this is. I get to work the next day and they’re like ‘did you see it?’ See what? I watched NXT, it was a great match. ‘No, did you SEE IT?’ What are you talking about? ‘Those are your vignettes?’ I was like whaaaaaaa? That didn’t even look like me! Do I need to change what I’m doing? ‘Yeah, probably.'”
Ember Moon(Athena) is a former NXT Women's Champion, as well as a one-time NXT Women's Tag Team Champion with current Smackdown Superstar Shotzi.
