Priscilla Kelly (formerly Gigi Dolin) reveals that she felt suicidal during a point in her run with WWE
While speaking to Denise Salcedo, Priscilla Kelly (formerly Gigi Dolin) reflected on her run with WWE. Here is what Kelly said about her struggles…
“Coming out of Toxic Attraction, I just wanted to get back to my roots. I wanted to get back to who I was. And it was hard, cuz I came out of Toxic. I went through a lot of stuff in WWE that kind of shot me into this horrible depression. That tail-ended Toxic. I was severely depressed. I put on a bunch of weight. I started not caring about my ring work. I kind of gave up because I was just so depressed, because of things that were happening behind the scenes. Then I went through this down period of, ‘I hate my life. I’m collecting a paycheck and I’m just hoping someday I can get back to who I am — the person, the performer that I am.’ And as soon as I started to feel like myself again, I tore my meniscus. So yeah, but it worked out in some way.”
“I have a lot going on in my personal life on top of everything else. Both of my parents have a lot of issues, and my dad’s been in jail — in prison — for the last four years. He actually just got out this past weekend. So I’m dealing with my little brother, who is going through hell and he’s on his own, and my mom’s got all kinds of issues, and my dad’s been locked up. So I have a lot of personal stuff going on. I’ve talked about it in previous interviews — my childhood wasn’t always the prettiest thing growing up, and I’m not shy about it. I kind of take pride in the fact that my childhood wasn’t perfect because it made me who I am. I have depth to me as a person because I’ve been through hell and back. It was that, on top of just the pressure of WWE — which is a lot. Especially those first two years. There was just a lot of pressure because I was new, and I had come from the indies. There was a lot they were trying to beat out of me. And yeah, there was definitely stuff going on behind the scenes. I don’t want to bring it up because I know it’ll blow up and become a whole thing. But let’s just say some people were very, very, very not nice to me — to the point that I was suicidal for a little bit because I was really going through it.”