“You win that kind of money?” – WWE veteran recounts backstage resentment

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Speaking in an interview on Sportshadow Wrestling, Layla noted that she had to learn a lot by trial and error at the start.

“It wasn’t so much that I wasn’t Americanized enough, it wasn’t anything like that – or I’m saying that I was too British or anything like that. … It was the fact that I didn’t understand any of the wrestling language… You have to learn by trial and error or watch other people mess up and know: ‘I can’t do that.'”

She also explained that her winning the Diva Search contest invited significant jealousy, although she was quite understanding about the situation.

“When I’d won that money, there [were] so many wrestlers, who were not top names, who were like: ‘I’m training everyday, I’ve trained my whole life, I’ve done this, I’ve done that, and then you come in and you win that kind of money?’ I had to adapt to that.”

Layla also talked about what she did with the money she got from WWE Diva Search

According to Layla, much of the prize money from the WWE contest was used to pay taxes.

Speaking in the same interview, she explained how she spent the rest of the money as well.

“Well, the 50 grand, I didn’t get. That was technically my contract. So, the 50 grand was my contract for 2026. Not 26, 2006. Sorry. 20 years ago. So, I did get a cheque for $200,000. The first thing I did with it, which I was so scared, was I paid a lot of taxes. Paid a lot of taxes from it. And then I think I put some of it away, and then other stuff I just kind of had for expenses. Yeah. So, you don’t realize you’re going to get a massive cheque, but then you’re like, ‘Oh, no!’ The taxes and stuff like that. So that was, like, the biggest, like, kind of time that I had to pay so much taxes first time,” said Layla.

Layla also claimed that she had dated Cody Rhodes because she believed he would be a megastar one day, which turned out to be an accurate prediction considering he is currently one of the top names in WWE.

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