In a recent interview with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, former WWE NXT star Steph De Lander (aka Persia Pirotta) discussed her release from the company, as well as her future plans in the wrestling businss.

“As it happened, I don’t want to say it’s a shock, because I don’t think you can say it’s a shock with the way it’s been since I’ve been here. Obviously, it’s heartbreaking, WWE is my dream job and to lose that is, obviously a huge loss, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot and since I’ve been at WWE, the last year, these kind of cuts have been coming very often and also, kind of out of nowhere, so I think it would be silly to say I was so shocked and so blindsided, because the way that it is at the moment is, it’s kind of like well, you know it’s happening at some point, you know that phone call is going to ring, it’s going to come, so obviously I wish it wasn’t right now, I feel like I had a lot more to do with WWE, but I wouldn’t say it’s such a shock because I don’t think there are many people that can be completely confident that they’re safe right now.

I think it’s one of those things where, I love inspirational quotes and it’s very lame, but it’s not about what happened to you, it’s about how you react to it. I could very easily let this thing that happened destroy me and tuck my tail between my legs nd cower home and do all those things, or I can try and find the positives in a situation which I truly believe there are some positives in this situation and make the most of it and just continue with everything that I did before WWE because I started wrestling and training when it was 2015, I hustled on the indies, I grinded, I did all of these things from an unknown wrestler in Australia to WWE, so it’s like remembering that mind frame and that mindset that I had beforehand and now, taking what I learned in the last year and applying that and just creating the best version of myself and the best career I can for myself.”

The full interview is available at this link.