Former WWE on-air talent Renee Paquette revealed in a recent episode of her Oral Sessions podcast that the company requested her to take classes to ‘tone down’ her Canadian accent when she signed with the company.

“So, I would just like to go on the record and say that I do not have a Canadian accent, I worked very hard to develop this non-regional dialect. When I first signed to WWE, they made me take classes to get rid of my Canadian accent, which I’m honestly, I’m sure it was more than it is now, but it was like very faint, if anything and I had to go into Manhattan once a week and sit with this woman and she would give me words I’d have to read during the week to make sure I didn’t mispronounce vowels or some s***.”

The full episode is available at this link.