Trish Stratus On WWE Using The Term “Diva” – Trish Stratus joined Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette to talk about everything from her wrestling career to her personal life.
During the interview, Trish Stratus was asked about WWE changing the WWE Divas Championship to the WWE Women’s Championship and ditching the term, ‘Diva.’
“I don’t think I’ve ever uttered the word, ‘Diva.’ Maybe I did, but in interviews, I never called myself Diva. I refused. I didn’t get it. I enjoyed in the beginning that we were called Superstars. We were all called Superstars.
When they started this Diva thing, as a tomboy, the word Diva, I’m like, ‘I’m a Diva? Yea, I don’t qualify.’ What they were calling a Diva, I’m like, ‘I’m not even that. I don’t think I’m that at all.’ I was never behind that term at all…Also, not to say anything about the girls that competed for the Diva Championship or who were Diva Champions, again, the title is what it is, they were still doing the work, and paving the path for females everywhere, and advancing themselves as great workers, not to diminish that as well. I know, and they will say it too, that there is that connotation with it.”
Trish Stratus also talked about her husband was knowledgeable enough to offer her pointers during her career.
“Forget that I was going to end up being a wrestler, he was a wrestling fan,” Stratus said. “So we related. We were around that, remember Toronto was like a hotbed for wrestling when we were children. When we started dating, and you know this, there wasn’t many females that liked wrestling, or maybe said they didn’t. So the fact that I liked wrestling, we’d take trips I’ll never forget. We’d go to Florida, we’d drive to Florida and we’d base it around going to an event. Like a Nitro, we went to a WCW Nitro. Like it was part of our trip thing. So we always related from the very beginning on stuff.
“And then we had our high school connection, and when we went to university I wanted to become a doctor. So I was like laser focused on what I was doing, he was laser focused on doing his own thing, his business. And we wanted to know for sure. We wanted to establish ourselves as separate entities in our rights. And then the wrestling thing came up. So I had to make the transition from school full time to my fitness career and then to wrestling. And so I always say, because Ron and I were fans for so long, he gives me that insight. He gets the business. I’d go ‘I have to kiss The Rock tonight.’ He’s like ‘cool. That’s going to be great for your character.’ Amazing right? As opposed to what maybe another husband might say.
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