While she may now portray a “Karen” on-screen, Chelsea Green believes “The Hot Mess” will always linger inside of her.
Since making her return to WWE at the 2023 Royal Rumble, Green’s on-screen character has never shied away from expressing her most candid thoughts. Oftentimes, those thoughts, and complaints, fall on to Adam Pearce, one of WWE’s premier authority figures. Green has fully embraced her new “Karen” gimmick but believes the “Hot Mess” persona will always continue to peep through.
During a recent appearance on Out of Character with Ryan Satin, Green discussed the dynamic of blending her previous character with her current one. “
“I think [my current character] is the evolution of the ‘Hot Mess’. I’ve become the Hot Mess and I will forever be the Hot Mess. And I love that. So now, I want to make sure that the Hot Mess, there’s just different sides to it, different shades of the Hot Mess. And I do feel like I totally brought the Hot Mess to Lucha Underground when I was Reclusa just in a dark, demonic kind of way. Then now coming in, bringing it, it’s like a hot mess, complaining Karen. There’s just different ways, but I’m still a hot mess,” Green said.
Green reiterated that her “Karen” gimmick is like her previous self, just without the theatrical makeup. “When we strip away the makeup, it’s just me. I have a very expressive face. I’m very over the top and dramatic. It is totally me, and I don’t think I can ever be the cool girl. I don’t think I ever will be. In real life, when you see me on the street, maybe you think with like, the outfits that I’m wearing or the way I look [that] I’m a typical cool girl, but that’s just not who I am. I am very, very over the top and goofy.”
Reflecting upon her work as “The Hot Mess,” Green noted that her “over-the-topness” is what makes her unique. As such, she takes great pride in her facial expressions and all the other distinct mannerisms of her character.
“At the end of the day, when I first started becoming the Hot Mess, I didn’t realize that that’s what makes me unique,” Green said. “That’s my thing, is the character acting and the over-the-topness of my face. I don’t need to be the best technical wrestler and I don’t need to do the most flips. There’s always going to be someone else that does more flips than me and is a better mat wrestler or grappler or whatever. But nobody is going to have the facial expressions that I have. Nobody is going to take a character and run with it so far that creative has had to say, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. We need to pull you back.’ That is me. That’s what makes me special. And that’s why I hope that people watch me.”
