Former WWE Women's Champion Gail Kim recently had a live shoot interview on Diva-Dirt.com, in which she explains her frustration and the series of events and reasons why she left the WWE not too long ago. Simply put, she bares out everything, without minimizing any details, often explaining the difference between her previous time in WWE and the time she was a TNA Knockouts Champion.

She starts the interview by explaining that in the WWE, the Divas today are told: “You’re getting too physical” and “You’re getting too good”, indicating that they don’t want the women to upstage the male wrestlers. Gail says she got the opportunity to be in a documentary about successful Korean people but WWE wouldn’t let her do it.

She puts her time in TNA over in a big way by saying that winning the Knockouts Title meant more than winning the Women’s Title because it wasn’t just handed to her. She says she was part of building the division and that made it more special. Gail says the Knockouts never talked about their pay in TNA. Any frustration was between talent and office, not with each other.

She explains the reason why she had to leave TNA, being that she was in contract negotiations, but was having financial issues. The pay she was being offered, she couldn’t accept at that time. WWE reached out and offered her more money. She said she spoke to everyone in the TNA office and bawled when she spoke to Jeff Jarrett. She says: “When life takes over, you have to do what you have to do to pay your bills.”

When she re-signed with WWE, Gail explains that Johnny Ace told her that the creative team was so excited to have her back and had ideas for her. She states that she was initially offered a training position in FCW but turned it down because she felt she still had a lot to offer in her career.

Gail Kim voices out one of her frustrations in WWE, by explaining that every week there’d be a new rule for the Divas like “no kicking”, “no punching” etc. “It was so frustrating.” WWE wanted “more girliness” in Divas matches. She details that there was a resounding amount of sadness within the Diva locker room once the Women's Championship was retired in order to favor the current Divas title.

To conclude, Gail's reasons for leaving the WWE were specifically this:

Gail says she felt slapped in the face and disrespected by a series of events and doesn’t take back her action of eliminating herself in the Divas battle royal. She recalls one instance when she went out to the ring with Daniel Bryan as his manager, but when she got to ringside, she was told to go to the back. She had just stood in 10 minutes in gorilla position with Vince and others there, however she wasn’t told she wasn’t supposed to go out. Agents told her she was going out. However, when she went out there, she was told to go back. She felt disrespected and spoke to Johnny Ace.

Gail says she felt frustrated in WWE. She had been approached about re-signing by Johnny Ace but said she definitely wasn’t going to re-sign. She didn’t know how much longer she was going to last. The night of the battle royal came on Raw. She felt that the Divas were treated as a joke but tried to make the best of every situation. She says the battle royal came and they were told, “Everybody has to get out of the ring as fast as possible in the first minute”. She says other things happened that day but won’t reveal what happened. She felt disrespected at that moment and wanted to be disrespectful back, thus eliminating herself. She does admit it was childish. She went to the back & none of the agents or higher-ups noticed that she had eliminated herself. Later on in the night, she quit and told Johnny that he eliminated himself and he laughed! They didn’t notice or care.

She says when she quit, Johnny Ace offered her the training role in FCW again but she turned it down. She says he wouldn’t let her quit. She said she wanted walk away & offered to give up the money. They told her she has to wait for her contract to run out. They didn’t want her working for any other wrestling companies.

The entire shoot interview, can be read here.