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VANESSA BORNE ON THE FIRST THING SHE DID AFTER WWE RELEASED HER, WHERE WWE COULD IMPROVE IN RELATION TO TALENTS AND MORE

Last weekend, I sat down with Danielle Kamela aka the former Vanessa Borne in WWE NXT for a 75-minute discussion about her time in WWE, her post-WWE plans, her journey leading to professional wrestling and being released several weeks ago

During our conversation, I asked Kanela about what sort of interaction she had with WWE NXT leading up to her release last month and she discussed her interaction with the WWE NXT writer Paul Levesque put her in touch with:

"We had ideas that the writer liked. We had ideas that would work; but when you have all of these other characters and other storylines going on, it's like a giant puzzle. Right? So, you're just trying to figure out, how can you fit here, and how can you fit there? So, we had all these ideas that potentially would have worked and that we had liked, but we were never able to come up with something that was like, "Okay, this is it. We want this. Let's go." So they were all good ones which would have worked, but we never came to a final plan or anything like that. So, we were just still trying to figure it out.  Then, I think the last message I had sent over I didn't get a reply from, and then it was a week later I got the call that I was being released. So, I was like, "Man, that's such a bummer," just because I just really know I could bring a lot when it comes to character work, when it comes to charisma, even in ring work, I've only shown a very small percentage of what I can do in ring. So, I'm just bummed that I didn't get to bring that to the fans, to the WWE universe, and to our programming and to do that type of storytelling."

When asked about what she'd like to see WWE improve in terms of their relationship to talents after her experience working there and waiting 18 months to return, Kamela commented:

"I guess it's broad; but like you were saying, I would just say the communication, because I know it's probably hard to deal with a lot of different talent and all of these moving pieces and a live TV show or two or three live TV shows that they have to write every single week. But I think just communicating because there was lots of times when I'd just sit and wonder or be stressed when a simple answer, I feel like, could have been provided.   So I think just communication, more communication. I think that would help just all around talent happiness, just being communicated with a little bit more. It's tough too, because at times I would think like, "Well, should I be just messaging these people all of the time, or am I annoying them," trying to figure out what that balance is. I don't think as a talent you should be concerned with that because I think they should be communicating with you, if that makes sense, so definitely just the communication."

When asked what she did upon receiving the word of her release, Kamela noted she went right back into a wrestling ring:

"So, after I got released, the first thing that I thought in my mind was, "You need to get in a ring as soon as you possibly can," because I wanted to know after getting this information and not being in a ring since that time I went to the Performance Center to knock the rust off, how I would feel and how I would do. So, I think it was three days after I got released, I found a wrestling school in Texas, because I spend a lot of time in Texas as well, and jumped in to one of their classes. It just felt good and it felt right, and it still fits for me. So, that's really all I could think of doing after I was released is just get in the ring. See how you feel and I got back in the ring, loved it. I'm like, "This is still..." I can't just say goodbye to wrestling because I was released from the WWE, which I feel like a lot of people think, "Oh, well, once you're not in WWE anymore, that's the top. So, you can't get any better than that." But the way wrestling is today is that there are so many other great organizations and so many other talented people out there. Before getting into wrestling, I didn't really know that because I didn't necessarily come from independent. So, I knew of WWE just because it was the biggest wrestling group.  Yeah, I really want to be able to give what I can to wrestling. Like I said, I have only shown a small percentage of what I can do in the ring; and the one thing I'm really sad I never got the chance to do was to cut any promos, was to do that type of storytelling, because that is the type of storytelling that I excel in. That is my strength. I never got to show that.

You can find out more about her plans at www.DanielleKamela.com as well as following her on Twitter @VanessaBorneWWE

You can listen to the entire conversation now featuring Kamela discussing her release from the company, sitting in suspended animation for 18 months after being called to the main roster but not utilized, her social media response to her release, who initially wanted her called up, how plans changed, the WWE act she was almost a part of, why she never debuted, her path to the business, the WWE Performance Center, learning under Serena Deeb and Sara D'Amoto, thoughts on Triple H, the Mae Young Classic, her pairing with Aaliyah, thoughts on how WWE could handle things better, the unfortunate twists of fate in her WWE journey, advice to those dealing with adversity, her future in pro wrestling and beyond, whether returning to WWE is the goal, Vanessa Borne vs. Danielle Kamela, Bianca Belair, negativity of some fans and how talents react to it, favorite moments, taking part in Wrestlemania weekend, Florida loops and tons more at www.PWInsiderElite.com.

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