5 things you didn't know about Charly Caruso

#2. Charly Caruso started her career as a crime journalist

Charly Caruso was a crime reporter

Charly Caruso graduated from college with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. She minored in Criminal Justice and Spanish. Following her graduation, she moved to West Virginia to join WSAZ-TV.

During her time as a reporter on WSAZ-TV, Caruso had to visit unsafe areas and work on stories she felt were uncomfortable. The former WWE interviewer then moved to Kansas to work for WDAF-TV. The situation was a little better there for the 33-year-old.

Caruso had a crew in Kansas, unlike when she worked in West Virginia. She worked on the Morning Live segment. Despite this, she felt crime reporting was not what she thought it would be.

Charly Caruso told the story on Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia:

"Even though we were covering like some kind of crazy situations like SWAT scenes and double homicides, at least I was with someone and surrounded by other people. It’s funny because I wanted to be a crime reporter from the very beginning. That was initially what I saw me doing in my career, and I minored in criminal justice… So I thought that that was what I wanted to do."

After discovering that she was not as passionate as she thought about crime journalism, Caruso moved back to Indianapolis to take a sports journalism job:

"That’s where I got to start doing sports and I was like, ‘This is it. I love this.’ It’s like the worst thing that happens is your team loses, but guess what? You play again next week, and people are watching you to be entertained, and they are watching you to smile, not to, you know, find out all the, you know, terrible things that are happening in your neighborhood."