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Maria Kanellis Unhappy With How WWE Treated Her Family At WrestleMania 35

Posted By: Joe West on Aug 13, 2021

Maria Kanellis Unhappy With How WWE Treated Her Family At WrestleMania 35

Maria Kanellis sat down with SHAK Wrestling recently and vented her frustrations with how WWE treated her family at WrestleMania 35.

ā€œIt was the whole day. It used to be that when you got to the building at WrestleMania, you knew exactly where your family was going to go. You were able to show them why youā€™ve been away all year. Why you havenā€™t been coming home. Why you missed Christmas or Thanksgiving or birthdays, whatever. You were able to really just give your family a VIP treatment. And they didnā€™t have that. It was all about the sponsors. They had their area and then whatever else. But for the wrestlers themselves, there was no place for our families to go. I was like, I donā€™t like this. I donā€™t like this attitude towards my family. My daughter was actually stuck outside with my mother-in-law and my nanny for 45 minutes before I was able to even get them into the building because it was so far away to get security down there. What ended up happening is my the person doing my makeup had to go and get my family.

ā€œIt made me sad to think that wrestlers were no longer the ones that were special. It was the sponsors and the free giveaways to the VIPs. They all had rooms. But the talentā€™s family, the families that have sacrificed the most, had nowhere to go. And then when they did get in the building, they didnā€™t have a backstage area. They had seats like up in the stands and they couldnā€™t even really see that well. It was cold and there was just nowhere for them to go. I want to give all the fans such a great experience throughout the entire year, but for my family, I want to give them that VIP treatment at WrestleMania and I wasnā€™t able to.ā€

She went on to explain what family means to her.

ā€œI always had the same kind of perspective. Family is always first, always first. It didnā€™t matter when I would come home. If I was just in the main event on RAW, I would come home if my parents needed something. I remember one time pushing a car in my heels after getting home. My dad needed help with one of his old Mopars because he restores old cars,ā€ she explains. ā€œMy family never treated me like I was special. I was just their daughter. So family has always come first. Iā€™ve just gotten a lot more vocal about that.

ā€œThe reason I was fired the first time from WWE was because I asked for too much. I asked for more money. I asked to be paid as much as the guys were being paid. So really, my views havenā€™t changed that much. Whatā€™s changed is the way I put information out there now. I have a lot bigger platform now with Twitter and Instagram and all these things than I did the first time around with just Twitter.ā€

She also has memories of doing a YouShoot interview that didn't go over well with WWE.

ā€œYouShoot, oh, my gosh, I got in so much trouble. Iā€™m an honest person and I think at times like that is just a little too much. I have a statement for my husband all the time. ā€˜Iā€™m not mean. Iā€™m just honest.ā€™ And I think maybe I take it a little too extreme from time to time. But it is so funny like so funny. Now I canā€™t watch it back. I see that person and Iā€™m like, no, no, no, no, not there anymore. Like Iā€™m such a happy, motivated, driven person for my own life that I donā€™t have time for nonsense. But like thatā€™s why I canā€™t watch it. But at the time it was so much fun.ā€

Source: CagesideSeats.com
Tags: #wwe #maria kanellis

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