Paige, aka Saraya, revealed that The Rock spoiled to her that she’d win the WWE Divas Championship upon her debut, telling her backstage he heard about it in a creative meeting. Paige revealed the story on Talk is Jericho.
Saraya discussed advice she gives young female wrestlers, “Now I tell people if girls come up to me or guys come up to me about advice when they first get into business, I was like, ‘You don’t have to take as many bumps. I know it’s cool at the time and you think the match is cool, but the thing that they will remember is your entrance. You want to look good gear wise and then develop a good finish and get a good move set, and you’re good to go. You don’t have to take bump, bump, bump bump. Because if you take all these bumps in like one match, what are you going to do for the next match?’”
She said The Rock’s movie about her, Fighting with my Family, was almost shut down in production due to her drug problems:
“It went into production, but it took years to be made. It was going to be stopped at one point because of me doing drugs and just being an absolute chaotic psychopath. It was not good press at all and I was just completely crazy. So at one point, they were scared that I was going to die first of all, but also they were just like, ‘This movie is just bad timing because she’s just not getting any better.’ So at one point, I think it was Carrano that reached out to me and he was just like, ‘You need to get it together. There’s gonna be a lot of things that are just going to be thrown away.’ So there were a lot of wake up calls, but eventually, obviously, I did leave Texas and come back to Florida and get back in the ring again, and then the movie was finally made.” WrestlingNews.co transcribed the remarks.
