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Okay, and we mentioned the t-shirt briefly, but there were rumors that came before that. There were reports you'd "stormed out" and left WWE, then you returned with the "released" t-shirt on it. Could you clear that up? Did you walk out and, if so, how did you end up coming back?
So, I didn't ask for my release right away, right? I was unhappy, so I was trying to find a way to be happy and to do my job well. To be, like, good for me and good for the company. I was talking to them, and I was asking, like, for options. Like, "Hey, can you give me an opportunity to show this better? What should I change? Do I need to change anything?" I was giving them ideas and everything but then the feedback was always really good. They said, "Don't change anything, we don't need you to change," but then they didn't use me, so I was getting so frustrated and I was like, "Well, I don't want to work here if I'm not happy," you know?
I can't do a good job if I'm not happy. It's not good for me and it's not good for the company. I was just trying to find that balance. Then, when we "finally got it" - because it never happened - it was like, okay, we had a couple of conversations, so I took a couple of weeks away from wrestling to figure out everything in my mind because you need to be healthy. I was just trying to get better and when we figured out everything and I was getting back to the live shows, the live events, and it was like, "Well, since everyone is putting on social media that I got my release, why not? Let's try it. I'm going to get a T-shirt and I'm going to try to change, a little bit, my gimmick."
And that had a back story and everything for this. That was not just something like, "Hey, let's mess it up, let's put a T-shirt, let's go there." No. I put everything on paper. I was like, well... And plus, when everyone decided to put on social media that I got released, I was very okay with WWE. That's the funniest part. When everything went on social media, I was very good with them. We had our last conversations and we were good. It was like, "Well, I don't know what you guys are talking about." But then it was like, "Yeah, let's try to do it." The idea behind it was like, I'm getting released from who I was before. That was the idea. I was never able to show that, but that was the idea. You know, like, "Here is my handcuffs, and getting released from who I was in the past." Now it's a new Taynara, or whatever. That was the idea. But it didn't work out. They didn't really like it. I don't know how they took the release T-shirt, probably not well because I was not able to use it again. But yeah.
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