Deonna Purrazzo On A Second WWE Run, Gisele Shaw On Helping LGBTQ+ Community
In a recent interview with “Cultaholic Wrestling,” Impact Wrestling star Deonna Purrazzo discussed the possibility of potentially appearing in WWE again and what it would take for that to happen.
Purrazzo was released from WWE in April 2020 and she returned to Impact Wrestling later that year.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On if she’d take part in a WWE cameo: “I don’t want to say no, and I want to say yes, but I also think that it’s kind of the circumstance of it. I’m in a place where I’ve done a lot of partial rehabilitation to my career in the last three years. I’ve been able to turn the tide of what people say about me and the conversations I’m in and cement my place in history. Unfortunately, my first time in NXT and WWE did a lot of damage to that. For me, it’s more being cautious about maybe the situation I would be put in or something like that.”
On how her dream has evolved: “I don’t want to take it off the table because it is WWE and, as a kid, I didn’t know any other wrestling. My dream was to become a WWE Superstar, and my dream has evolved many times over during my career, but I think at the end of the day, that’s something I’m going to want to hold onto and want to say yes to, but I need to learn from my mistakes and do it differently if I was going to.”
On a recent edition of the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, Gisele Shaw spoke about her goal to use her platform in Impact Wrestling to inspire people in the LGBTQ+ community. Shaw said,
“For me to inspire people, I need to accept myself, first and foremost. So I think that was so important, for me, to tell my story. I never really wanted … to me, the whole ambassador thing, it was like ‘Hey, I just wanted to show my support,’ and stuff and whatever. And they go ‘Oh my gosh, you would be a perfect person for this.’ And I go ‘Oh, okay, cool.’ Because, with the platform, like I said, it has such huge reach. Inspiring people, educating people … I have that voice that people normally wouldn’t have had. So to do it two years in a row,” she added, “it’s just amazing, and to do it in my hometown … you know, I’m really new here as well, in Windsor, Ontario. It’s just been two years since I’ve been living here. It’s just incredible. It’s so incredible. And I do love helping people … Gisele the person is all about giving back and ‘What can I do to help people?’”
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