Naomi On Her Walkout From WWE: I Needed To Stand Up For Myself, And Not As Naomi, But As Trinity

Naomi explains why she decided to walk out from WWE in 2022 along with Mercedes Mone, then known as Sasha Banks.

Naomi and Sasha Banks walked out of WWE on May 16th of 2022 before that day’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw, due to creative differences over their tag team championship booking, as they had been scheduled to face off in a multi-woman match for a title shot that night. A short while later, after a run in TNA in her own right, Naomi would return to WWE.

While speaking on the second episode of WWE: Unreal season 2, Naomi spoke about her decision to walk out of WWE.

“I’m not gonna go much into detail, ’cause I don’t like talking about it. So in 2022, my tag team partner, Sasha Banks, and I at the time were tag team champions. There was a lot that happened that day at work that led us to.. leave. Like, literally walk out. I needed to stand up for myself, and not as Naomi, but as Trinity, and that was the first time in my life, in my career, not employed and not knowing what to do next and where to go next.”

Elsewhere in the same episode of WWE: Unreal, R-Truth shared how he found out his WWE contract wouldn’t be renewed on the way to a dance with his daughter. You can read more about that here.

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