"I Lost Myself" - Released WWE Superstar Breaks Silence On Departure

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02-06-2025

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Priscilla Kelly, known to WWE fans as Gigi Dolin, has shared a deeply personal and emotional reflection on her WWE release. She has also touched on the challenging period leading up to it.
Kelly, who was released from her WWE contract on May 2nd, 2025, alongside several other NXT and main roster talents, took to social media on June 1st with a new promo video. The video showed Kelly burning trinkets related to her WWE career.
It also included a recreation of the phone call where she received news of her release. In the message, Kelly spoke of feeling like she "had lost everything."
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She elaborated on her internal struggles: "I had everything. Everything I worked so hard for so long to achieve and somewhere along the way, I lost myself.
Almost entirely." She continued, "I became a shell of the girl I knew. I didn't even recognize the body I saw in the mirror."
COLOGNE, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 07: A WWE Logo at the WWE Live Tryout at the Motorworld on November 7, 2018 in Cologne, Germany.
COLOGNE, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 07: A WWE Logo at the WWE Live Tryout at the Motorworld on November 7, 2018 in Cologne, Germany.Kelly revealed a period of profound questioning. "I had asked myself time and time again, did I even love this anymore? I had been through so much in my childhood and in my adult life that I thought surely nothing, and I mean nothing, could break me.
But it did," she confessed. "I found myself picking up pieces of my dream, not knowing what glue would be strong enough to put it back together."
A significant turning point for Kelly was a serious injury. "Well, it turns out that glue was a torn and flipped meniscus on a Friday morning.
I spent every day of my recovery putting myself back together," she explained. This period of rehabilitation seemingly led to a renewed sense of purpose and determination.
"I came back with a vengeance and one goal. Show everyone what the hell I'm capable of," Kelly declared. "Break every assumption, every doubt. Bring back a part of me that I thought was dead and work my ass off until... I sat with my thoughts."
She ended her reflection on the release with a stark admission: "It had felt like I had experienced a death. Maybe I did."
At the time of her release, Kelly was part of an NXT faction with Shotzi (who also recently exited WWE after her contract was not renewed) and Tatum Paxley. Kelly has already had her first post-WWE independent wrestling dates announced, signaling her intent to showcase her capabilities on her own terms in this new chapter of her career.
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