Gabbi Tuft, who worked under the ring name of Tyler Rekks in WWE, worked closely alongside John Laurinaitis during her time in the company.
Speaking on a recent edition of “The Ten Count” podcast, Tuft revealed that she saw both the positive and negative sides of the former executive.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On her positive interactions with Laurinaitis: “Johnny was always cool to me. When my daughter was about to be born, I was in Europe on a ‘SmackDown’ tour on the due date. And I’m freaking out, freaking out, and Johnny was like ‘Get through this one thing, we’ll send you home.’ I’m like ‘Okay.’ So I did…I didn’t finish the whole tour, but I was freaking out. I’m like ‘I’ve got to go home.’ He was like ‘Go, go, go.’ And not only did he send me home, after Mia was born, he was like ‘Take two weeks off.’ I’m like ‘What? Nobody gets that.’ He said ‘Take two weeks off.’ And he gave me two weeks off to be with my wife and my new daughter, so he was pretty cool to me.”
On having seen his bad side as well: “I’ve seen both sides. I’ve been on the bad side too. I’ve been on the receiving end … when his little airplane [incident] in Wisconsin [happened], he was not nice to me.”
