Kaitlyn returned to RAW (Diva Dirt)
Former Divas Champion Kaitlyn reveals her abrupt exit from WWE after only a year in the company
Celeste Bonin, aka Kaitlyn in WWE, is a former Divas Champion who abruptly left WWE after one year of winning the title.
She recently appeared on The Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette, where she opened up about her sudden exit from WWE. Kaitlyn said she was wrestling with severe personal problems behind the scenes, which led to her release before a show in Philadelphia in early 2014.
“I left wrestling because I was like, I thought I was gonna get fired,” I felt, like, less and less relevant. I had so much, like, shame. I had gained all this weight, and my body was giving me every signal that I was not OK – like, emotionally; like, mentally. I had just so much hatred for myself. (H/T Wrestling Inc.)
“I had so much resentment for myself and like, that projected outward towards others, and I was like in self-destruct mode. And so I just asked for my release on a day that — it was a really sh*tty day.”
Celeste Bonin said that she’s not happy about how she left WWE and spent years away from wrestling as she struggled to find happiness. Kaitlyn also claimed that she engaged quickly and wanted to take a hiatus first.
“I had gotten engaged really fast and I felt like I just needed to go on, like, a hiatus and just figure my sh*t out,” Bonin recalled. “You know, I left and I got, like, a couple of months severance and I didn’t really have a plan on what I was gonna do. I literally felt like I don’t have anything to give, to share. I don’t know what I’m gonna do. “I don’t know what my career was – I felt so lost and I just got married and I was like, ‘I’ll start a business!’ And I was like, maybe I can do that. I don’t know anything about business.
And I can see this now,” Bonin continued. “To me, it was just replacing wrestling, and wrestling was replacing fitness and competing. So like, my only relevance I felt growing up, like in my teen years especially, I started to find my identity in being really muscular and strong, and I started working out a lot. I competed as soon as I got out of high school and that became my identity.
Bonin spent more than four years away from pro wrestling but eventually returned to the ring. She even returned to WWE as a participant in the Mae Young Classic Tournament.
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