Priscilla Kelly Opens Up About WWE Release, Says She Was Having Fun And Thought She Would Be Called Up Soon

On May 2nd, Priscilla Kelly (Gigi Dolin in WWE) was part of a handful of releases made by WWE.

Kelly had been teaming with Tatum Paxley on NXT TV, and making appearances for TNA Wrestling as part of the partnership between WWE and TNA.

Speaking to Saraya on Rulebreakers, Kelly opened up regarding her release.

“I want to go anywhere that gives me the opportunity to keep growing my brand and get to that point where I can afford these goals of mine of taking care of my family. I just want to go where I can have fun,” she said when asked what she wants to do next.

She continued, “The thing that sucks is right before I got released, I was having the most fun of my career. My time in NXT was very rocky. I never talked about this, but I went through a bad depression phase working there. It wasn’t particularly because of anything. I was such a creative person on the indies, and when I went to WWE, it was a whole new thing for me to work that nine-to-five heavy workload schedule and be told what I could and couldn’t do a lot. There was some other stuff, too, but I went through a really bad depression and kind of lost who I was. I wasn’t sure of myself anymore. I got injured, I tore my meniscus in training, and it was one of those things that snowballed after that. When I came back from my injury, I got to team with Shotzi, which we wanted to do for a while. They put us with Tatum and as soon as we went out there together, it immediately clicked. We all had chemistry. It looked good, it felt good, we had fun. Before we went out and when we came back, we were still laughing and having fun. That was the first time that I genuinely experienced the best sisterhood in wrestling. There had been bits of that through my career, but this was different. We all felt it and we all loved what we were doing. Shotzi was super thrilled. Towards the end, they had me and Tatum, we were having title matches and making appearances on Raw and TNA at the same time. I was like, ‘I’m getting called up. This is it. This feels right. I’m happy doing this. This is awesome.’ I was the happiest I had ever been. Then, out of the blue, a week or two after Mania week, ‘we’re canceling your contract.'”

Asked if she was given a reason for her release, Kelly replied, “I didn’t get an answer. I was very close with some of the coaches at the Performance Center. Some of them reached out to me and I was like, ‘I want somebody to tell me what it was so I can learn from it and make adjustments so this doesn’t happen or I can grow.’ Nobody had an answer for me. A lot of times, I don’t think the people down at NXT know. I think it’s a higer up thing. Some of the people I was close with at NXT were pretty devastated about it.”

Kelly said that being released is like losing a family because you get to know the people at the PC and see them every day, and then you are no longer there.

Kelly has been back on the independent scene since her released, competing for GCW, AIW, REVOLVEr, and more.

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