WWE star felt like she “just had to be perfect” during Vince McMahon’s regime

While appearing on The Ariel Helwani Show, Natalya commented on her run for WWE. Natalya discussed the regime changing from Vince McMahon to Triple H and TKO…

“To be brutally honest growing up in the business with a parent like Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart. My dad is you know, he’s one of my greatest inspirations in my life. But growing up my dad lost his job a lot. So for me always I think subconsciously even before I ever got to WWE, I always had this fear of like I have to make everyone happy. I have to please everyone. I have to be the company girl. I have to be everything that my dad wasn’t. I have to be perfect. So whatever Vince wants me to do or whatever you know my boss wants me to do I just have to do what they want me to do.”

“I feel like now for the first time in my 18 years of being in WWE and having grown up in it, I always felt and that’s what I was saying earlier, I just always felt like I had to be perfect. Especially when Vince McMahon was in charge, like I just had to be perfect. I had to show him that I was going to be the exact opposite of what my dad was. I could be so professional and I could just do everything that everybody wanted and say all the right things and do all the right things. What I love right now is that Triple H and the powers that be, Nick Khan and our bosses, they’re not expecting us to be perfect. They’re not, you know, they’re letting us be real.” (quotes courtesy of SEScoops.com)