Priscilla Kelley: “I was suicidal for a little bit"

At the beginning of NXT 2.0, Toxic Attraction, the group formed by Mandy Rose, Gigi Dolin, and Jacy Jayne emerged as the main pillar of the programming. Winning titles, starring in shows, and growing both as wrestlers and characters. While this may mean that the three became stars, not everything that glitters is gold, and this has been demonstrated with Dolin. The former tag team champion went on Denise Salcedo's channel to speak openly about her bad experience while in WWE.

During her time in the company, Dolin admitted to feeling deeply depressed, with a very low salary and overwhelming pressure. It is because of this emotional and psychological wear and tear that she remembers that stage as one of the worst in her life: "I went through a kind of slump where I thought, 'I hate my life, I earn a salary, I just hope to someday be able to be who I am again and the artist that I am".

Furthermore, just as she admits she was starting to get back on her feet, she suffered an unfortunate meniscus injury in her right leg in mid-2022: "And as soon as I started to feel like myself again, I tore my meniscus". All of this, combined with factors such as her difficult family situation and having to take care of her brother, ended up sinking her.

WWE bears some responsibility

In the conversation, Kelly admitted that a large part of the problem was caused by the pressure she was under in NXT, a territory where you don't progress following WWE's timelines, most likely the company will let go of your services sooner rather than later. Additionally, she also mentioned that backstage the situation was certainly controversial and overwhelming to say the least: "The pressure in WWE is a lot; there was a lot of pressure during the first two years, because I was new and came from the independent circuit. They tried, let's say, to force everything out of me. Things happened backstage. I don't want to bring up the subject—because I know it will get out of control and become a big problem—but let's say that some people were very, very, very unpleasant to me".

The situation reached such a point that, as the wrestler recounts, she had suicidal thoughts: "I had suicidal thoughts for a while, because I was really struggling".

Fortunately, the river seems to have returned to its course almost three years ago, as Dolin admits that from 2023 onwards she began to feel somewhat more liberated.