Former WWE Star Chelsea Green recently appeared on Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette, where she spoke about losing her confidence in the WWE when she was released and how her confidence returned when she worked and made appearances for other promotions such as IMPACT, the NWA and ROH.
Chelsea Green said:
“In WWE, I felt like nobody had faith in me.” “I knew when I went in that I was hired for a reason, that they had faith in me going in. And then I felt like I lost their faith, and I don’t know where in the two and a half years that happened, or if that’s just something that happens in that company. All of a sudden, I got released and all these companies have come to me and say ‘we trust you, we have faith in you, we love you, what do you want to do?’ And I’m like ‘I’m not ready for that!’ But I am ready, and I have Matt to remind me that I am ready. And I’ve really kind of put pen to paper and tried to figure out ‘what’s this new Chelsea going to be? What’s this new Hot Mess going to be?’ Again, I don’t want to go back to what I just doing before and what was easy.”
“I have a fresh start and I want to start over again and build the new version of the Hot Mess. But each company is different and each company wants something different out of me. So I’m figuring it out as a I go. I’ll never forget going out to wrestle at Slammiversary and having Tommy Dreamer say ‘you already did the work. Now we all just want to go see you out there smiling and happy and we all just want you to be in that ring. So don’t even think about it.’ Maria Kanellis at Ring of Honor said the same thing. She’s like ‘you look so stressed. We’re like so happy to have you here. We just want you to go out there and do exactly what you’ve been able to do. Pick up a microphone and talk.’ And I’m like ‘hold up, what? Why is everyone so nice to me?!'”
Chelsea Green then talked about how she had so many great things to say about WWE despite her release and that she worked so hard to get her dream job with the WWE, but it was not what she envisioned the moment she got there, which is why she messed up one of her finishers because the pressure really got to her.
Chelsea Green said:
“The minute that you say anything. I’ve said so many great things since being released about WWE.”“And the minute I said it in my Ring of Honor promo, it was an absolute witch hunt. It’s a giant company and no matter what you do. Look at J-Lo. I’m sure she has bad days on tour and not only bad days, but just kind of down times and up times. That’s the tough thing with wrestling; you’re giving everything at once, and then it’s all taken away and you kind of lose yourself in those moments of being the top guy and then being nothing. You could see the struggle mentally that I was going through. If you go and look and watch my NXT matches, the very first NXT match that I had on live television, I did my finisher backwards.”
“You work so hard to get this dream job, and then you get there and you realize ‘oh man. This is not what I envisioned. This is not what I imagined.’ And sometimes you are feeling a thousand percent and sometimes you feel this small, and on those days that you feel this small, this affects every single bit of you. When I went out there for that day, I didn’t believe in myself, I felt that no one believed in me. I felt like I had so much to prove, and I forgot about the list of accomplishments and the reason that I was there. I had already proved myself. And I hit a finisher backwards that I had been doing, at that time I had been doing it for six years. It really proves that the pressure that is on every single one of these people. I wish that Twitter knew that.”
Chelsea Green then talked about the broken wrist she suffered prior to her WWE release and if she did not get injured maybe she would have been fired. Green also spoke about why she needed to get surgery following her WWE release.
Chelsea Green said:
“It’s so hard to say because if I hadn’t broken my wrist, would I be fired?” “Maybe not. At the end of the day, literally nothing happened. I jumped off the apron, rolled back like I normally would have done, and my wrist snapped, or my forearm snapped. The issue was not the move or what happened or that my bones are brittle like so many people have told me. ‘I need to take calcium,’ like thank you very much like I don’t know that. The issue is, I already had an implant from when I broke it live at NXT and what we didn’t know is that I’m allergic to metal implants on my bones. We did not know that until we went back in for surgery, put a larger implant in, and my bones reacted and I had swelling. This was right after I was released, I had a lot of pain in my arm and I had been fully cleared and ready to go months prior to being released. My arm just kept getting worse to the point where I couldn’t lift five pounds at the gym. I went back to my surgeon and he was like oh my God. Your bone is rejecting the plate and trying to swell away from the plate.’ I had emergency surgery the next day.”
“Then, of course, my bone was healing from that when it re-broke during my 90-days. I understood why Ring of Honor wouldn’t let me wrestle with a cast on, because of the commission. Like that’s real. The Maryland Athletic Commission, they don’t mess around and I understood there was no way. I couldn’t even, as you saw, I had to do my promo on the ramp. I couldn’t even go into the ring. They don’t play. But in Nashville with Impact? They were really good, like ‘we’ll protect you and we’ll do as much as we can, but we still want you to be on Slammiversary.’ And I didn’t want to lose that. After 90 days of not being able to do anything and hyping everybody up, how lame would it have been for me to say ‘yet again, here I am with a broken arm and I’m unable to work.’ So I’m so thankful that I’m working with this broken arm. It’s broken, but it feels great.”
Chelsea Green then talked about how she doesn't know when she will be 100% healed from her injury and when she will be cleared, but that she has been competing against the advice of her doctors.
Chelsea Green said:
“I wish I could give you a date.” “But the problem is, I got my cast off and I got a removable cast. They want that removable cast to stay on for six months because of the damage done with previous surgeries and implants on it. At this point, there is no clear date and my doctor is like, ‘I already know you’re not going to listen to me, so go ahead and not listen to me, but know the repercussions of what’s happening here.'”
Chelsea Green then discussed the angle that was proposed for her and Mickie James that was eventually dropped when they were still with the WWE, which was the reason for a bond between the two of them to develop.
Chelsea Green said:
“With Mickie, that is someone I didn’t even realize I was emulating until I was so deep into the Hot Mess and people were comparing us and I’m like ‘you are so right.'” “And then of course we built this bond over not being able to have our storyline together. When we were told we were getting this storyline, it was going to be Mickie-Trish 2.0. Mickie was going to be Trish, I was going to be Mickie, and then it was possibly going to lead with something with Trish, who knows? We had so many plans and so many ideas. We were talking on the phone every day and we were so excited.”
“So we bonded over the loss of our brainchild and ever since then she’s just been so Team Chelsea. How could I ever, who would’ve thought that when I started wrestling that Mickie James would be behind me and that I would be able to text her, call her at any point in time. How cool is that?”
