Cameron Talks WWE Release, TNA And ROH, Ryback Response, Apology To IWC, Wardrobe Malfunction At WM

As noted, I recently interviewed former WWE Diva Ariane Andrew, i.e. Cameron. In the second and final part of the interview below, Andrew discussed her response to Ryback’s post, how WWE creative can hurt a person’s career, if there has really been a Women’s revolution in WWE, if the releases would have happened if the brand split came earlier, her favorite opponents, favorite matches and more.

Part one of the Ariane Andrew interview is here, where she discussed getting her start in WWE, receiving no notice before her first WWE match, her comment about Melina vs. Alicia Fox being her favorite match, Vince McMahon, Total Divas, Triple H and more.

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You’ve been appearing on NXT since last November and working a lot more in the ring. Was that a decision that you had made? You know, on Total Divas, you had talked about wanting to go down to NXT and then you did for this November.

“So lets backtrack a little bit with what I talked about a little bit on ‘Stone Cold’ [Steve Austin]’s podcast. For me it’s not just about money. I didn’t want to just sit there and be like, ‘I’m collecting a check’. For me, I wanted to be an asset and I wanted to be valuable in WWE. And I pitched so many ideas and it wasn’t just wrestling because, at the end of the day, I know what my pros are and I know what my cons are. Like, I knew I had a great character. I know I have charisma. I know that I needed to fine-tune my wrestling skills and I was okay with that because I can embrace things about be like, ‘you know what? I can do this really well, but I’m not so great at this’. And I was like, ‘you know what? I want to do something about this. Like, put me down to NXT and I know that means I may lose my job behind it. I know that I may never come back [to the main roster], but at the same time, at the end of the day, it’s something that I wanted to do because I want to make sure that I, me as a person, did everything I possible could at the end of the day. And it takes a lot of courage. It takes a lot for someone to do that because people were going to be like, ‘you know what? I don’t want to lose my place because in the WWE it’s kind of like you can get forgotten about and I kind of what to touch on…

“It kind of brings me back to the whole Ryback situation. So what I meant by everything ‘amen brother’ was kind of like him standing up for himself and having the guts to do so. It takes a lot to be really feel passionate about something and stand up for it because sometimes there [are] repercussions behind it. And I feel like a lot of times people are scared to say something because it’s kind of like, ‘if I say this, what does that mean?’ And do I agree with everything he was saying? No, I’m not saying that I agreed with [everything he said]. I’m just saying I’m happy he was able to speak up on something he was passionate about. Do you know what I mean? Like, if you don’t believe in yourself, who the hell else will? And I just kind of wanted to touch upon that because I got a lot of heat behind the whole [situation], why I spoke up. Sorry, I’m like stumbling all over my words. When I get really passionate about stuff, I stumble all over myself! I got a lot of heat behind that. People are like saying, ‘stay in your lane’, but it’s like I wasn’t agreeing with what he was saying. I was just saying I was happy he was able to speak up for himself. Sometimes you get left in the dark and I think WWE is a great company, but if you’re forgotten about or misused, you have to be the person to speak up for yourself.

I’ve talked about Ryback’s comments on our podcast and I said, well, I don’t agree with the part that everyone should make the same [money]. I do agree that it’s a scripted environment and you look at someone like Damien Sandow who got himself over and because creative didn’t have anything for him, he got pushed down the card and it hurt his pocketbook because of creative’s failings. And then, ultimately, he was released. And so really through no fault of his own, he got released and that’s kind of a lot of what Ryback was saying about the creative and kind of being in their hands. And when [creative is bad] for somebody, it affects them directly because it affects them financially and their career trajectory.

“Yeah, some people have families and even children. And you know it is unfortunate that you can see yourself a certain way and if they see you in a different light, you have no control over that. So I just definitely wanted to touch on that, just to say I didn’t agree with everything that he was saying. Not at all. I was just agreeing with him speaking up for himself because it takes a lot of courage just to step out and say how you feel because there are repercussions. And people are treated differently. One person makes one thing and it’s like, ‘okay’, but another person can’t say something else and it’s like, ‘ooh, you’ve overstepped your boundaries’. Just different strokes for different folks.”

Kind of on that same level, kind of the same topic as far as the creative for the women in WWE, it looked like WWE was making some changes where they dropped the term ‘divas’, but now it kind of seems, at least to me, that they’re back to where it [has] been over the last couple of years except they’re not using the word, ‘divas’. What are your thoughts on that?

“I do agree. I was really excited for the Divas Revolution. That was a time when I wasn’t on the road. I remember turning on the TV and I was like, ‘wow, this is so awesome! Women are getting more time.’ Because at the end of the day, even though we are in a male dominated world, the girls put in just as much work as the guys, work their asses off just as hard, and I was just like, ‘this is such an amazing opportunity and I’m so excited that now it’s the Women’s Championship’. But I feel like you’re not seeing all the girls up now. It’s like this storyline and the matches aren’t as long. It’s kind of a backtrack, but maybe, hopefully, it’s a backtrack before the brand split and to create more opportunities, so everything’s a roller coaster ride. So maybe at the moment it seems like things aren’t as they should be, but once the brand split happens, maybe that means that more opportunities will come up for everybody, not just the women. The men as well.”

It seems like a lot of the releases before the brand split was announced, do you think the releases would have happened if they came up with the brand split a month earlier?

“You know what? I don’t know, but I do look at life, my favorite thing to say is ‘everything in life happens for a reason’ and sometimes we don’t know what that reason is. Sometimes it’s like, ‘why the hell this way?’ But that I can’t say. I don’t know if that was something that had already been determined a long time ago. You just never know how things work and just because I feel like a door closes, I think Damien Sandow is the sweetest guy and so, so sweet and so talented. This doesn’t …

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