Carmella recently spoke with Sean Neumann for Rolling Stone; you can read a few highlights below:
Carmella talks about men and women sharing the same ring, the firsts for women in WWE:
It’s super important for little girls to see what the women have done with the “Women’s Revolution” and now being able to be a part of this Mixed Match Challenge. It’s different, it’s fun and it’s exciting. Nowadays, women are looked at as equal to the men when it comes to competing and I think that’s a really cool message to send to little girls and show them that whatever they want to do, they can set their mind to it and make it happen. And right now, this is a super exciting time for women in the WWE with all the firsts. We have the first women’s Royal Rumble match coming up and we had the first women’s Money in the Bank ladder match [in July 2017], so the sky is really the limit for the women right now.
Carmella reveals her reaction to her Money In The Bank win:
It was surreal. Still now, I’ll see it on my kitchen counter when I’m at home and I’m like, “Wait a minute, this is mine? I won this?” When I first found out about the ladder match, I remember – honestly – I was scared. I’m one of the smaller girls in the division. I don’t really do any crazy moves off the top rope or anything like that. I moonwalk, and I trash talk – that’s what I do. So, to know that I was going to be jumping off ladders and I was going to be getting hit with these things, I was scared. But I knew it was something that I had to do and wanted to do to prove to everyone that I’m here too and I want to make a name for myself, and that’s exactly what I did.
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Carmella comments on adjusting to being in front of the cameras for Total Divas:
It was definitely a lot at first to be on the road. Being a part of Smackdown Live and then having this reality show at the same time, it was a lot. I wasn’t quite sure how to handle it, but luckily, I have a lot of great friends in the locker room and on Total Divas they all kind of help you with that. It was a little bit of a learning curve, but we made it through (laughs).
The adjustment was trying to be yourself in front of all these cameras. You’ve got all these cameras following you around. For me, it’s easy to play Carmella on Smackdown because it’s a character. But to just be Carmella in real life on this reality show was a little bit different. Getting used to all those cameras being around and letting loose was a little bit different, but I got used to it.
