During a recent appearance on the “Lightweights” podcast, Zelina Vega discussed her humble beginnings in WWE, managing Andrade on NXT and the main roster, feeling like an outsider in the company, and other topics.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On starting out as Andrade’s manager in WWE: “Like, a manager was never on my list of ideas that I wanted, but it kind of just happened, and I fell into it. Then I just — I don’t know, something when me and Andrade just got together, it was like lightning struck and then just we became this like force.”
On how she initially felt like an outsider in NXT: “I wanted to be a part of things that were happening so bad, you know. I didn’t feel completely a part of the locker room, like the female locker room because we didn’t have that kind of, you know, you feel differently after you wrestle somebody. There’s a different kind of relationship that you eventually develop with that person. I just didn’t really have that, you know. So, especially in NXT, I felt very much like an outsider because it was like — I was in the female locker room, but I just didn’t have that relationship with everybody.”
