Athena sat down with Chris Jericho to record an episode of Talk Is Jericho where she looked back on her time in WWE.
The current AEW wrestler noted that an idea was pitched where she operated a verified burner account on social media and would troll WWE’s weekly shows. This was around the time she was out with a torn Achilles. When she was good to return, it would be revealed that she was controlling the account. She said,
“After all that time of he’s [Vince McMahon] so busy that it was really hard to get into his office and because I was on the undercard almost at that time, it was like — I remember the first thing, he was like, ‘I hear you want character development. What ideas do you have?’ And I really started, I was like, ‘Hold on one second’ and I went and pulled out every character pitch that I’ve given to all these multiple writers and I go, ‘Here are all the ideas that I’ve been pitching. You’re telling me the only thing you’ve heard is that I wanted character development?’ Here it is man! And he was like, ‘Wow’ and he was really shocked. He goes, ‘What can we do? What can we do?’
“Because some of the ideas were used for other people, nature of the business, I get it and like I said, we came up with this anger management thing. Like two weeks later, I tear my Achilles and I’m just like, oh my God… It was really cool because at that time, [Eric] Bischoff had kind of taken over creative and I had a talk with him about it. We had a lot of ideas because Vince was like, ‘Hey, talk to Bischoff. Bischoff can get you squared away.’ Me and Bischoff come up with all these cool ideas and stuff. Tear my Achilles, he’s the first person that actually goes, ‘Hey, very bad timing….’ He had this really cool idea of while I was out, I would just be the disgruntled employee. So he goes, ‘I’m gonna send a company-wide email, tell everyone not to talk about your injury because we have this really cool idea to create you a Twitter account that’s verified, like WWE verified and you would just troll the entire show from the internet and eventually, we would reveal that it’s you’ and I was like, ‘That’s cool, okay’ and then it leaks that I got hurt, like right after that email got out… And I was like, man, I’m just gonna sit at home. I’m just gonna sit out and then I had the really cool opportunity to do WWE Backstage which kind of made me fall in love with watching wrestling again because I had to watch so much and at that time, I was watching WWE; Raw, SmackDown, NXT, NXT UK, Main Event, Superstars, Mixed Match Challenge.”
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