WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus recently appeared on an episode of Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette, where she spoke about never being behind WWE using the term "diva" and her reaction when they changed the WWE Divas Championship to the WWE Women’s Championship and the term "diva" to Superstars.
Trish Stratus said:
“I don’t think I’ve ever uttered the word, ‘Diva.’ Maybe I did, but in interviews, I never called myself Diva. I refused. I didn’t get it. I enjoyed in the beginning that we were called Superstars. We were all called Superstars.”
When they started this Diva thing, as a tomboy, the word Diva, I’m like, ‘I’m a Diva? Yea, I don’t qualify.’ What they were calling a Diva, I’m like, ‘I’m not even that. I don’t think I’m that at all.’ I was never behind that term at all…Also, not to say anything about the girls that competed for the Diva Championship or who were Diva Champions, again, the title is what it is, they were still doing the work, and paving the path for females everywhere, and advancing themselves as great workers, not to diminish that as well. I know, and they will say it too, that there is that connotation with it.”
