Many of us grew up watching professional wrestling where all we knew was what appeared on our television screens or in the ring at the local arenas, but over the last 20 years it’s changed and Rachael Ellering opened up about her struggles behind the scenes.
After working in WWE NXT for about four years, she suffered a torn ACL and was recuperating when she was released during the WWE’s budgeting cuts due to the Pandemic.
We’ve heard various wrestlers talk about their experiences in the WWE and being released when there weren’t many places for them to go.
You never know what’s coming
Rachael appeared on Taylor Wilde’s Wilde On Podcast recently and spoke about her experience. Special thanks to @wrestling_mpw for the transcript.
“It all started when I tore my ACL. Anyone who gets injured, it’s more mentally difficult than physically at times and it definitely was for me. I had a lot of bad experiences with the medical staff I was working with and then COVID hit and both myself and my boyfriend were fired,” she said. “Losing our jobs at the start of a pandemic was scary and sad. That was my dream job since I was a kid. It was difficult to come to grips with how poorly that whole experience went and obviously how it ended. Then, when you realize that we’re in a pandemic and I just couldn’t go work somewhere else. You just have these thoughts like ‘I wish one of us kept our jobs.’ You’re saving up for real life things like a house. I’ve always wanted to take care of my mom. You save and then you realize ‘shoot, now I have to take that and survive until things are normal.’ It was all extremely challenging. I fell into a deep hole and I’m sure a lot of people did over the last year. So many people lost their jobs and couldn’t see their family. I love wrestling so much and not being able to do that physically hurt me. When you put so much time and effort and love into something that is your job and you’re no longer able to do it and don’t know when you’ll be able to do it again. I was cleared six months after my surgery. Physically, I was all good. I went through the physical thing and the mental thing and it was back-to-back of where I couldn’t wrestle. It ended up being this long period of the thing I’m most passionate about and love and want to dedicate my entire life to being great at, you can’t do. I got to a really bad place.”
A lot of people in all walks of life have experienced this at one time or another, and hearing it from someone else can help others deal with their own troubles.
It’s important to remember that nothing, especially the bad times, are ever permanent.
We’re glad Rachael Ellering has rebounded and found a home with Impact Wrestling.
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