{"id":25835,"date":"2016-07-16T21:56:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T02:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=25835"},"modified":"2016-07-17T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T06:00:13","slug":"hemme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/16\/hemme\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Interview &#8211; Christy Hemme speaks out on circumstances surrounding WWE exit, why she decided not to speak out in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3434027473\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>More than ten years after being released by WWE, Christy Hemme opened up about the circumstances that led to her departure from the company in late 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Hemme revealed in a new sit-down interview that there was a one-time personal incident behind-the-scenes in WWE. She was then sent to OVW to train for wrestling, and she was released shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s stuff that I don&#8217;t need to go into. I&#8217;m a strong woman that lives by my morals, and if you ask me to do something that&#8217;s not within my morals I will say no. So once I put that line down, that&#8217;s when I got the axe,&#8221; Hemme told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC7vzh7E5uP_xlFjesIkenOg\" target=\"_blank\">Keven Undergaro of &#8220;The Tomorrow Show&#8221; live podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was one specific incident, so I&#8217;m just gonna leave it at that, &#8217;cause I don&#8217;t need to go into details&#8230;It was not a wrestling related risque thing.\u00a0I did Playboy (laughs)&#8230;It&#8217;s just behind-the-scenes, politics, politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the incident, Hemme was excited to get wrestling training to potentially return to the main WWE roster. However, she was &#8220;crushed&#8221; when she was released.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They asked me to move to OVW to train and I was like YES! I get to go train! Like I want to go work hard, I was really excited. And then when I got there, I was there for maybe a week and then I got the call that I was released. And I was heartbroken. Crushed,&#8221; Hemme said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I left, it really broke my heart. I was like, &#8216;What do I now? I&#8217;m so in love with this business. Going into TNA, I was so thankful for another company to be part of. And, I had a ten-year run there. So, I feel like I had such a full wrestling career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hemme, who was in her mid-20s at the time of her WWE exit, says she was not in a position to be outspoken about the one-time incident. 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