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In WWE, when you can blur the lines between reality and fiction is when the
product I feel is the best.
When I was born, this place became mine.
And I do love you.
Stephanie is just like the ultimate daddy's little girl, billion dollar
princess. She's a villain.
I love you.
Brie and Daniel Bryan were always fighting for what was right and what was
You really had good versus bad.
You surrender the championship or I take action against your wife
and make sure that she is fired.
It was personal.
It was something that had to do with each other's family, people's actual
livelihood. What's that word that I'm looking for?
Bitch.
Seeing Brie Bella put her hands on Stephanie, it was jaw -dropping.
Stephanie and Brie's story, it was natural, organic, and it was real life.
You've got to be kidding me.
Women at the time, no matter how hard they worked, it didn't seem like they
could get above a certain spot.
This whole storyline was a jumping off point for what women could be capable of
in WWE.
I want a match at SummerSlam against you.
I think this is the biggest women's match in...
WWE in a long time.
I was incredibly nervous. It had been over 10 years since I had been in the
ring. I know now that the women are feeling what I felt in that story.
And that makes me happy because the women deserve that.
Here we go.
When two legends collide.
Their rivalry stays pinned in our minds forever.
This is where we break down the legendary stories behind the greatest
of all time.
I'm Freddie Prinze Jr.
And this is WWE Rivals.
Stephanie McMahon and Brie Bella.
This storyline came together putting employee against boss.
This to me was a natural.
evolution of women. I think it was a milestone for them to have this
of such high profile.
I love this rivalry because I was fortunate enough to come up with Brie
Nicole. Their work ethic is really unmatched, and I got to see that
They're identical twins. They are twins.
No one expected Brie to be able to have that, like, that aggressive side, you
know, and she got a chance to show that. And, of course, you have to have the
antihero to be able to lift you up to that level, and Stephanie McMahon plays
that role to a T.
She is her father's daughter. That is a fact. She is definitely her father's
daughter. This is her baby. There's nobody that's going to step to that. And
that's what Steph brings. She got that oomph to her.
That's it, Steph. It's okay. Come on down.
WWE is all surreal to me. It's like a live action adventure soap opera. That's
when it's just so awesome.
Never really fathomed that I would be a character on our show.
I'm not such a bad guy. I can be a really nice guy, right?
Steph is one of the most natural performers.
and most naturally emotional characters I believe we've ever had.
That's in her genes.
We will have audio, but it won't bleed through, because the commentators will
talking over it, unless you hear her say something cute.
Steph was very young and new to the business, didn't necessarily know how to
the bad guy, or so I thought.
Don't you do that!
You son of a bitch, don't you hear her!
Don't you hear her!
Damn it, he's going to hit 70!
In WWE's Attitude Era, you didn't see women in positions of power.
So when Stephanie McMahon took on that power, it was something that we as fans
hadn't really seen before.
You know, it's so crazy because I'll never forget the Attitude Era. And I'll
actually never forget my mom's like, you can't watch that.
So it's actually interesting because my sister and I were Hooters girls.
And once a month, they showed a WWE pay -per -view.
I really would stand there and watch.
I just remember, like, okay, this is different than what I remember.
The girls are doing matches and kicking ass.
In 2006, I'll never forget someone talking like they're looking for women
wrestlers. And I'm like, wait, they're looking for women to get in the ring and
wrestle? Do
you have like a
talent or a skill?
Well, I'm a competitive soccer player, so I can rock the soccer field. I'm
extremely athletic, so any sport, you just give me a couple days and I'm
much a pro at.
And then when I went in again, I was like, hey, you know, I do have a secret.
I'm an identical twin.
No, we both did the same thing. Oh, we did, right? The twin thing.
Two months later, we flew down to WWE's developmental system.
Nicole and Brianna fell out of Bella Twins.
I was like, this is what I'm meant to do.
They came into the wrestling industry not knowing a lick.
They didn't know anything about wrestling. They had an incredible work
Brie and Nikki Bella, identical twins.
The Bellas debut on TV, and it just took off like wildfire.
They lean into the twin stuff.
That's a rarity, and that's something that WWE hadn't really had at that time,
especially for women.
Hey, did you see the switch? I did. The Bellas have pulled off twin magic.
And the Bella twins have become number one on the most disliked diva list.
See, what was going on in my personal life for the 2000s?
I got married and had three kids.
And I would fly into TV because even when I wasn't on camera, I was still
the scenes. I was helping, you know, direct and produce and write some of the
shows. We'd be on the road and I had a pack and play that I would set up next
my bed on the bus.
and I can install and uninstall a car seat like nobody's business.
I have plenty of experience being a working mom and juggling multiple
When I was 24 years old, anyone who was a higher -up, anyone who worked in the
office, had a suit on, I was intimidated by. Like, it was scary.
So I'll never forget the first time I met Stephanie.
I was, like, shaking inside, like, hi. I didn't know if I'd call her, like, Miss
McMahon or Miss Stephanie.
I was very intimidated by her because of the way she spoke.
It's truly an honor and a privilege to be a part of WrestleMania.
She spoke with big words and very educated, and I was a college dropout,
sports were my life.
It was just a lot, a lot for a 24 -year -old.
I don't remember the first time I met the Bella Twins, but I remember the
real conversation with them. I was really impressed with how they thought,
they thought about their own brand. You know, how that gave them an advantage
when it came to endorsements or television shows.
I am Nikki Bella. I'm Brie Bella. And we're the Bella Twins.
One of the elements that helped... bring the Bellas to the forefront and put
them in such a prominent position was the power of Hollywood. The Divas had a
show which brought a lot of new eyeballs to the women's division in WWE.
It was good to have it at the time when we were trying to have this women's
evolution. You see these girls on the road, man. They had 29 bags.
They were the Divas. The straight Divas. It was absolutely amazing.
A million outfits. You have to.
It also gives people an insight, meaning that the women were not getting that
much time on TV, and people wanted to get to know them. Now I can go and watch
Total Divas and really get to know you and know you outside of the ring.
And that makes people care about him. Those girls, man, they knocked it out of
the park.
I live with my boyfriend.
His TV name is Daniel Bryan, but his real name is Bryan Danielson.
It's really funny because Bryan and I actually didn't really care for each
at first.
Until we were in a storyline together. I really got to know him.
I'll never forget, my sister and I were driving after one of the wrestling
shows.
Holy moly.
I feel like I need another scarf.
And I was like, Nicole.
And she's like, what? I'm like, I have a crush on Brian.
And I thought my sister was going to slam the brakes.
She's like, what?
Like, Daniel, Brian?
And I'm like, yes.
We just knew we wanted to start dating each other.
I don't believe there's a superstar today that is as hot as Daniel Bryan.
Bryan is one of the best wrestlers in the world, and he's so badass.
But when you get to know him, you fall in love with him because he is like the
guy that you want your sister to marry.
I love you.
Oh, there's your gun.
It was fun to be so close to Bryan at that time.
It doesn't matter what you think.
It matters!
What they think.
This thing called the Yes Movement. Daniel Bryan leading this charge of
the anti -establishment. Power to the people.
It was incredible to just see the WWE Universe take over with the Yes chants
and the Daniel Bryan chants. And it was crazy. It gives me goosebumps thinking
about it.
And the Daniel Bryan Yes Movement is winning over the entire world.
We are going to be here all night!
Yes! Yes!
Yes! Yes!
In 2013, Paul and I came back as the Authority.
Point of interest was preventing Daniel Bryan from getting anywhere near the WWE
championship at that time because we didn't want him to be the faith of the
brand. I mean, what kind of a faith is that? When I was born, this place became
mine.
Stephanie McMahon, when she debuted, as we all know, was sweet and she was
innocent. And her evolution literally became the female Vince McMahon.
First red door on the right. Thank you very much.
You're going to really arrest Daniel Bryan?
She does it so perfect. She pierces you through the heart when she's talking and
she's looking at you and she's right in your face.
The McMahons as authority figures were the bad bosses.
Oh, man, come on.
When you're the boss or the boss's daughter and you have influence, that's
the audience saw it. And I think that's why the McMahon family, they always just
made such good antagonists, whether it was a rivalry against Steve Austin or a
rivalry against Daniel Bryan.
I'm really looking forward to doing this myself.
You can fire people and you can hire people and you can make people's dreams
come true and you can break people's hearts.
At every single stop, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon tried to stop Daniel
Bryan's success.
We're not going to allow this so -called yes movement to create a false leader.
It was the audience in a very real way telling the WWE this.
is the superstar that we want to see representing this company.
Daniel Bryan had to go through Triple H at WrestleMania
30 to get to the main event where he was successful.
That WrestleMania will always be so memorable to me because Brian Mina
winning.
And then right after, they had to then get ready for their wedding in Sedona,
Arizona.
I love you.
Brian, you may kiss your bride.
Brian and I got married April 11th.
And then that Sunday we left for our honeymoon. So we went to Hawaii for a
and I'll never forget Brian's arms.
Like especially one of his arms started to feel a little numb.
You have a lot of body pain, right? You feel like it comes with the business.
But this was like a different level of pain.
We're on our honeymoon, and I've also got this horrible nerve pain shooting
my arm to where I'm barely sleeping.
They kind of decide shortly after that that I need to have neck surgery.
Spread your fingers real hard like that.
Real hard.
He's going to be out six to eight weeks, but then they realize, like, hey, this
isn't getting better.
And so they're like, okay, well, this naturally transitions into something
Bree and Stephanie.
I mean, I think there was always that option, that opportunity. I was with
Triple H.
Brie was with Daniel Bryan.
It seemed like a natural place to go.
I was with Bryan mentally. I wasn't actually thinking about work. And I'll
forget when I got the phone call.
And they're like, hey, Brie, we want you to start a story with Stephanie and
keep this movement going.
And I was like, this is a huge opportunity.
Like, give me five minutes. Like, give me maybe ten.
The pressure was really intense.
And I was like, let's do it. And I'm going to do this for Brian.
Daniel Bryan wasn't able to wrestle because of a real -life injury.
To write him off, he was attacked by Kane on television.
Stephanie McMahon is coming to console Brie Bella.
I don't know what to say.
The best WWE storylines are when reality and fiction mix together.
And that's what happened with Brie Bella getting involved with the Authority.
We love kind of getting a peek into what's happening behind the curtain, and
that's what they did.
The way they went about it was really a smart way to use what was really
happening.
See, we told you he wins the championship and he can't even hold on
because his body isn't meant to do this.
You know that these people deserve an active champion. And Daniel, you just
can't give it to them right now.
So at the end of the day, my family and I have to do what's best for business.
I think what's best for business is such a good catchphrase because it could be
complete bull.
My character would talk down to the audience like, look, I don't expect you
people to understand what true business principles are. You're just lay people.
You're working class folk. It's above your pay grade. You're not educated like
am. You know, I mean, the whole thing is just so offensive.
This Sunday at the Payback Pay -Per -View, you decide.
If you surrender the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, or
if I take action against your wife and make sure that
she is fired.
You are looking live at the sold out Allstate Arena in Chicago as we welcome
you. To payback.
So payback was crazy.
I'm just going to say it's one of those days where I was like, is this how it
is? I'm like, so Brian, let me get this straight. Tonight we're planting the
seeds for the story.
You're about to quit.
I won't let you.
I looked at Brian and he goes, just go with it, Bri. And I was like,
I'm going to, like, faint.
I was like, just go with that. That's what I have to do.
Daniel Bryan needs to do the right thing for the global deputy universe and
surrender that championship.
Are you going to show your future children that you did the right thing
these people and your wife?
Or are you going to be selfish?
In WWE, when you can blur the lines between reality and fiction is when the
product I feel is the best. You want to talk about our potential children?
I hope your children are watching this right now so they can see that their
mother is nothing but a narcissistic, self -centered...
What's that word that I'm looking for?
Bitch!
It was personal. It was something that had to do with each other's families
like, people's actual livelihood.
It's kind of the best part about these rivalries.
Actually, I refuse to be a powerless victim.
You can't fire me.
I quit!
It had been 10 years since Stephanie McMahon was involved in any kind of
physical match.
So seeing Brie Bella put her hands on Stephanie, it was jaw -dropping.
When you think of real life, right, like, if something happens to your
like, the wife is there to, like, pick up the pieces and vice versa.
And so seeing the beginning of the Stephanie and Brie story was...
So awesome because it was natural, organic, and it was real life.
She's a McMahon. She's not going to take that laying down.
She's the boss's daughter, and she's your boss.
There's been no doubt that Nikki Bella has been suffering for her sister's
There was only one other person to take it out on, and that was Nikki.
Of course, you've got to wonder whether or not the authority is behind the
stipulation for this match tonight.
Basically trying to send a message to Brie through her sister Nikki.
Nikki's defensive. She's got one arm behind her back.
You think you've got one up on me? Well, too bad. Your sister's still here. Why
don't you watch what I'm going to do to her?
Nikki Bella has been put through her own personal hell over the past number of
weeks. And tonight she faces a four -on -one handicap match.
That was like...
One of my favorite times of my whole career because I got to show who I was
an individual and Brie got to show who she was as an individual.
Hey, look it, it's Brie!
It's Nikki's sister Brie! There was so much emotion in this story and the fans
were so invested that we had to put everything into it.
That's got to make Nikki feel a lot better.
Or maybe not.
That's cute. You're a paying customer. You have a ticket.
What kind of human being are you, huh?
I'll tell you who you are.
You are a vindictive bitch.
Oh, wow.
When somebody slaps you, there's no faking it. It's real.
And it hurts. And so when we saw Brie get slapped by Stephanie, we were like,
oh, my God, it's on. And it gave them that momentum that they needed.
What I want to focus on is this Stephanie McMahon slap.
Definitely wasn't, uh, nothing fake in that. No, there was no gentleness.
You're going to cry like a baby, huh? It's a legit mother effing slap.
I mean, this woman's putting some power behind that stuff, and it is. It's a
legit slap.
She got long arms, so it's like a buggy whip. She sort of did them or started
doing the slap at a time in the business where the people that we were all
teaching her how to do them were like teaching her to like really slap the out
of people.
And she mostly does.
There's no psychology to the slap.
I mean, zero. It just became this tough guy thing in wrestling. Like, hey, we're
going to have somebody slap the living.
out of you and hit you as hard as they can and you're gonna grin and bear it
this to me was Vince versus Stone Cold Stephanie versus Brie this situation it
was the whole crowd kind of went
Like the fans, when that happened, they were starting to be very invested in the
story and that they really were like, okay, like this is going somewhere and I
want to see it.
Stephanie's breaking the law, getting arrested.
Bree's also getting arrested, getting kicked out of the arena. These women are
wanting to fight. We're wanting to see them fight.
The more upset I was, the more
satisfying it was to the audience that I was getting mine.
Where else do you get, you know, taken out of an arena with people chanting and
cheering for you to go?
I will be right behind you. I will be right behind you.
You have to put it in perspective of where women were at the time versus
they are now.
Women at the time, no matter how hard they worked, it didn't seem like they
could get above a certain spot.
It just wasn't fair, right, in a lot of different ways when it came to the
regard for men's matches versus women's matches.
If the show was to go heavy, time would need to be cut from a match. The first
match that was on the cutting block was the girls' match. Every single time.
When are you guys going out? You guys were supposed to be up before that.
We got cut.
I was in that era, too. And then you talk about that.
Like, we go out there, we have matches. You got five minutes.
You get out there, it's like ding, ding, ding. You got 30 seconds to go home.
30 seconds to go. How did we tell the story? We got four other girls on the
outside. You know, this is how it is.
Brie and Stephanie closed shows.
They were, like, main eventing Raw, which you didn't see. And it was
television.
Well, Stephanie has invited Brie to Raw. Will Stephanie be able to clear the air
with Brie and put this situation behind her?
I asked you here because I would like to ask you to drop all charges.
As long as you agree to all of my demands, I want my job back.
I felt like I learned the business a lot in the storyline, just being in a main
event story.
I never had been.
If I agree to give you your job back, you'll agree to drop all charges against
me? Awesome.
Done deal.
Oh, wait, there's just one more thing I want.
I want a match at SummerSlam against you.
We needed every week to put fuel on top of my fire going on to fight the boss
and to risk everything.
And so just learning these little things, I was like, wow, this is what it
to be at the top. And I like it.
Let's just say I knocked her block off.
And I said, I'm going to make you my bitch.
The crowd came so, so loud.
I did not just call her a bitch. You're going to be my bitch.
I got her. Look out, look out, look out. Bring in Stephanie.
Bring in Stephanie.
Just get out of here fast.
This could get really out of hand. We are hopefully about to experience the
contract signing between Stephanie McMahon and Brie Bella for their match
SummerSlam. So contract signings in professional wrestling, to me, have
been the equivalent of the face -off for boxing or MMA.
When you have a contract signing, people know, okay, this is a bigger match than
everything else that we've seen for the last several months.
Brie, I am a fourth generation McMahon.
I don't even think you understand what that means. I mean, and what are you?
are you, Brie? You're nothing.
That rivalry was such a highlight of good versus bad.
That's when the best rivalries happen, when the audience can clearly know who
cheer for and they clearly know who to boo. And the audience always knows you
got to boo Stephanie McMahon.
You are nothing more than a wannabe reality star who abandoned her injured
husband just to make a name off of me at SummerSlam.
I could feel the crowd like, oh.
Because they cared so much about Brie.
You know, they have to care. If they don't care about the characters, then
story doesn't work.
My God!
Wait a minute!
It's definitely with Nikki Bella now.
It was inspiring
to see how hard she worked at it. It was inspiring to see how...
much effort and energy she put into it.
The last thing that Steph would ever want to do is be put in a position that
couldn't deliver or that she would let the business down or that she would
embarrass the legacy.
Believe me, when you don't do this all the time, it's not easy.
Three, two, one, time.
You can slap Stephanie Sunday at SummerSlam. Oh, you have no idea. I'm
take it to her.
Brie had so many eyes on her. It just wasn't the WWE Universe. She had
mainstream watching.
So many people were so invested in the story that she wanted to deliver.
Here we go.
That's one.
Two. I had to make sure that I was up there with the authority.
If I slack or I don't show up and give 110%, it's all on me, is what I
felt.
Brie Bella.
Gets to have this top shelf story and get treated like a top shelf talent.
I don't know how many times women had gotten to feel that kind of empowerment
this business before that moment.
I was by her side the whole day. What do you need?
I'll help you out. I knew my sister was going to do great, but damn, I don't
think I've ever seen her that nervous.
This is the biggest women's match in WWE in a long time.
There hadn't been a match that had gotten this much build on a pay -per
and especially a big pay -per -view like SummerSlam, in years and years.
So Brian flew in. He was like, I am not missing this.
What I remember is feeling so proud of Brie.
I told Brie this. I said, don't be afraid. And I think, you know, in the
Brie wasn't afraid at all.
I was like, okay, breathe.
breathe and stuff was the same we just want to impress the audience so much and
we want everyone to always walk away from a match being like that was really
really great i need you two powerful women to be powerful out there and do
you need to make that magic and bring it so this way it can give us all a chance
to succeed and the younger ones that come after us i feel grateful for the
that somebody actually said okay we're going to give you girls this chance i
need you two to blow it out of the water
Welcome to the 27th annual Summer Slam!
There was a lot of weight on their shoulders. You can't forget how
this match actually was. And I don't think that even like at the time we even
really knew, because we didn't know where it was going to go.
The following contest is back for one fall.
Approaching the ring, one of the principal owners of WWE, Stephanie
I was incredibly nervous. It had been over 10 years since I had been in the
and not like I was some great wrestler before that. Here I was going to have a
match with Brie Bella at SummerSlam in one of the biggest storylines that we
had. Have you ever seen Stephanie McMahon look like that before in your
Wow. She's like a superhero.
There were a lot of eyes. There was a lot of interest in our match.
I think Stephanie's ready.
I remember being at that SummerSlam in the building, and there just being this
huge buzz.
What's this match going to look like? When you build up a match the way this
match was built up, you have to deliver.
I will never forget that night. It's actually funny because I'll never forget
Ronda Rousey and all the horsewomen, Shayna, all of them in the front.
They were cheering for Steph, by the way.
They were so loud.
And working with staff who was born into this business, I was like, how do we
have a match?
Like, you just can't. There's too many beautiful things going on right now.
Here we go.
Stephanie and Bree starting things off here tonight. Stephanie hasn't been in
the ring in a match in over a decade.
It wasn't so much about moves.
It was more about storytelling.
And I think sometimes when women get a chance to have a really great story,
can do so much more than just do pretty moves.
Another arm drag.
Both of them showed off a lot of athleticism, but they had such a great
You knew Stephanie was bad. You knew Bree was good. And Stephanie really
how to be a bitch.
Whoa, look at that. Wow.
Oh, and a DDT play on a Bree Bella.
Uh -oh, went to slap.
Bree and Bree.
Oh, no.
Whoa, incoming.
Missile drop kick to Stephanie.
Hey, hey, hey, look at this.
Stephanie's scrambling out of there. She better.
That, of course, the submission maneuver used by her husband, Daniel Bryan.
My three little girls were out there, and they were ringside, and I was so
to be able to actually wrestle in front of them.
They got to see Daddy wrestle all the time, and they really didn't know that I
had ever wrestled in the ring.
Stephanie, a former women's champion.
Stephanie's a far more powerful of the two. Oh, yeah, and she's displaying that
here.
And during the match, the crowd actually started to chant.
Which, you know, was really surprising to me, actually, when they started to
chant that.
And Brie says, press on Stephanie.
And Brie, I'm loving it.
Brie is just like her husband. She just won't quit.
You can't blame Brie. All this emotion.
Oh, boy.
Looks like Brie's fired up now.
Oh, Brie's got to be loving this.
Hey, the CEO.
It was awesome to
bring the house down. I felt that I was needed. I felt that my presence meant
something. For me, it was like, wow, I'm feeling like one of the boys.
It was almost like an abnormal feeling for a woman to feel that.
Hey, now, look at Nikki. Look at Nikki.
Stephanie's got nowhere to go.
Stephanie's had this coming a long time coming for the fellas. This is 201.
Most of the time, I'm not standing.
But this particular match, I stood tall because, of course, I got Nikki Bella in
my pocket.
I remember waiting for that perfect moment. I just gave her, like, an MMA
forearm, like, so hard because I wanted it to be so good. And I was, like,
feeling the crowd for Brie. Deep down inside, I was like, holy Brie, I'm so
sorry. I just knelt you so hard.
know what it is about our industry, but when you have that surprise heel turn,
it is the best.
You don't realize how excited you get. I mean, sometimes it can feel better than
sex. You're just like, this is amazing.
It's great.
It was pretty epic.
What does every dog need?
Pedigree!
Stephanie said that she didn't want to embarrass Brie Bella, but she was going
to tonight. And what a way to embarrass that young lady.
Stephanie's little girl, their eyes, they looked up at Steph like... They
meeting Wonder Woman. They could not believe that was their mom. They just
watched. And I will never forget, I was like, in my head like, wow, one day I
hope I have that. Like, I hope I have my kids look up at me like that.
All of a sudden, I heard these three little voices chanting, you still got
And it was my three little girls.
And that was a pretty special moment.
You want them to have a mom that shows your girls that they can do anything.
I could have been more proud.
It was so special because after our match, we saw Vince. Vince was like, how
does it feel to have the match of the night? He's like, you killed it. You
killed it. And I think, too, that night, we had all the women come up to us.
Everyone. Every single woman who was backstage.
I'm talking from catering to writers to the women wrestlers.
Everyone. They all came up and just hugged us. Like, they were so...
proud of us and you just walk away and you can't help but to have a big smile
your face them having that match and then us being able to move from that and
then being able to be where we are today and you know it's not just about us
it's about hey your daughter might come your daughter might you know you never
know yeah seeing
Stephanie McMahon and Brie capture the audience the way they did proves that we
can tell female -driven stories that capture the attention of the entire
audience. This whole storyline was a jumping -off point for what women could
capable of in WWE.
This match did a lot for women's wrestling.
Are we standing on what they built today, or was this a part of the path
you get off and you see it, but other women have done just as much? I think
everything's a brick.
You know, everything's a brick that builds you a foundation, and I think
was a very important cornerstone brick of what we see now with the women's
division.
doesn't go well, does the evolution keep happening?
Or is it like, oh, man, I told you they couldn't do it. We're going to put them
back in the same spot where they were. So that was such an important match.
had to deliver.
You look at the women on the roster now.
Some of the women are better than the men, I'll say it, in the way that they
tell their stories and the talent that they have. You know what I'm saying?
Maybe none of that ever gets showcased if this match and this rivalry doesn't
deliver.
Up next.
For the first time ever, 30 women will compete in a Royal Rumble match.
I'm so proud of the Bellas for
so many different reasons.
Nikki and Brie have believed in themselves and their ability from the
And how cool is it to see it all come full circle and to see them achieve, I
think, pretty much everything they ever set out to do.
Nikki just eliminated her own sister.
Stephanie, is that your scene that happened? I have, up close and personal.
It's crazy now that I'm a mom, especially to a daughter.
Everything you do, all you think about is, how can I make it easier for the
little ones?
And I wish I had more role models.
I now know that I'm...
That person for young girls. Young girls are watching WWE going,
I can do that.
When people say you feel it, like you have a calling, or you just know,
I knew. My whole life is this world.
I couldn't imagine a different life. I just couldn't.
My whole life is surreal.
I've grown up in WWE. My best friend was Andre the Giant growing up. I mean, who
gets to live this life?
I'm so grateful for it. Actually having the chance to perform in rings and then
to do it in front of my three girls.
I'm so blessed and I can't wait to see what's going to happen next.
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