Natalya Recounts Negotiating New Deal With WWE, Wanting Their Blessing & Support To Write A Book In Order To Move Forward With Her Working There

Natalya is looking to go on a big run in WWE.

‘The Last Hart Beating: From the Dungeon to WWE’ is being released by Natalya, and she is making the media rounds to promote her biography.

She guest appeared on Insight with Chris Van Vliet and shared that when she was negotiating her new WWE deal in 2024, she told the company that she wanted their support and blessing to write the book if they were going to continue working together. She added that she had to get permission from WWE to use their title belts for her cover photo.

“Gosh, so many different reasons (why I felt now was the time to release a book). I had been thinking about writing a book for a long time, and so, when my contract was coming up last year, in like June of 2024, one of the things that I really wanted — I was like, ‘I got some new goals.’ One of them was I want to do a book, and so, that was one of the things I brought to WWE that I was like, ‘Listen, there’s a bunch of stuff that I wanna do, and I really, really wanna write a book and I really need the company, I need you guys to give me your blessing on it, if we’re gonna move forward and I’m gonna to continue to work here because I love working for WWE.’ It’s a huge part of my life. It’s a huge part of who I am. I’m closing in on almost two decades uninterrupted with WWE, and so, WWE is a big part of my life. They’re my family, but I also have new goals and I have new dreams and I’m just that type of person that throughout my whole life, I like to set new goals, and if I don’t have goals or dreams or something to look forward to or work towards, I feel like I’m stagnant… I just love working towards new stuff. So the book was like, listen, this is gonna be part of a new chapter. I’m starting this new deal with WWE, and I wanna be able to write the book. WWE was super supportive about the book. They gave me their blessing and then some, and I needed that. It’s not like I’m writing the book as a WWE book. This is my book, and they’re giving me their blessing, and so, getting their support, having them have my back on it… I wanted to have new goals. So, from the cover, I was like, ‘Hey, I wanna have the Women’s Championship on it and the Divas Championship.’ The second I asked WWE, they were like, ‘Yep, no problem.’ I was like, ‘Oh my God, they’re letting me put the –’ it’s their titles. I have to get permission to do that. Even though it’s not a WWE book, I have to still get permission to get all of that stuff. They gave me 16 photos to use, that have never been used or never been seen before by people. So, they’ve just been so supportive but, I finally felt ready to tell my story…”

She delved into the Nattie Neidhart version of her on-screen self that is on display when she is competing outside of the WWE banner.

Natalya spoke about using Rage Against the Machine’s ‘Killing in the Name’ for her Bloodsport theme and said she wants to go on a powerful run in WWE.

“It’s just different. I just wanted different, and I wanted the energy to be different and it’s just a gritty — but the thing is I can do it. I can easily parlay it into WWE and so that’s the hope is that while it’s taken me a long time for my ship to really come in, I really wanna go on a powerful run in WWE. That’s my goal, that’s my dream. I think when people read the book, I think it’s gonna move them. It’s gonna move them in a way that like, I want people to cry, I want them to laugh their asses off, I want tears streaming down their face when they’re getting to those powerful chapters, and they’re like, holy sh*t, I can’t wait to get to the next page because I’m telling you, people are gonna read this book very fast. It’s like binging a book.”

Natalya is scheduled to be in action at AAA’s Héroes Inmortales event on October 25th. She’ll be in a Triple Threat match for the AAA Reinas de Reinas Championship with Faby Apache and the champion Flammer.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Insight with Chris Van Vliet with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.