Kelly Kelly addressed rumors claiming she only wanted to return at WWE Evolution 2 if she got a match.
In July, Kelly Kelly said WWE invited her to Evolution as part of the crowd, but she felt that wasn’t the right way to return. On Insights with Chris Van Vliet, She explained why she turned down an appearance for the show. She said, “I wanted to talk about this, because it was a thing. So when I got the call, it was in Atlanta, obviously. Again, it was one of the weekends, the only weekend I had off, and my kids, I think they had something going on. And I feel like when I come back, I want my kids to see me there and they wouldn’t been able to make it. I don’t know. There were just a lot of different things that were kind of keeping me from going.”
She reacted to the rumors that she would only return if she got a match, calling them false. “Somebody on the dirt sheets was like, ‘Oh, somebody in the higher ups said that she only wants to come back if she has a match’, which could not have been farther from the truth. I didn’t need a match to come back. If it was in LA, I would have been there no questions asked.”
“But to fly across the country to do that, like I said in the beginning, with my kids, I’m very picky about what I say yes and no to right now. Maybe when they’re six or seven, and they’re grown or bigger and stuff like that, then I probably would have done it. But it’s just, like I said, that was the one weekend I had off. I didn’t want to get them on a plane and do this. There was just a bunch of different things.”
Kelly Kelly says she would have attended WWE Evolution 2 if timing worked
The former WWE Divas champion confirmed that the invitation was a last minute call. She said she might have attend the show if the call had come earlier. “I think my husband had to work that weekend too, so then I was gonna have to figure out my nanny situation. Like I said, if it was on the West Coast, I could have made it work. I could have figured something out. But my husband was having to work, he’s an engineer. He’s building the underground subways here in LA, and they were doing a night thing, so he was having to work.”
She clarified that her decision had nothing to do with wanting a singles match. She also said WWE fully understood her reasons and supported her choice. “And it’s like, they [dirt sheets] said, ‘Oh well, the higher up said she hasn’t been in the ring in 13 years.’ When I’ve done battle royals and stuff, I’ve gotten the call a week before, and I got in the ring and I wrestled every day. So it has nothing to do with that. Everybody that I talked to in WWE knows the reason. So it’s just like for people to come out and be like, ‘Oh, she thinks she’s better than sitting in the crowd, and she thinks that she deserves a match.'”
Kelly Kelly said she would have happily appeared in the crowd and attended the Netflix show in LA. She thanked WWE for her career and revealed that she signed a legends deal. She hopes that in a few years, her kids can sit with her in the crowd and cheer her on.
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