{"id":95435,"date":"2020-04-01T12:50:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=95435"},"modified":"2020-04-01T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:51:05","slug":"interview-highlights-gail-kim-talks-about-her-experience-in-wwe-being-a-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2020\/04\/01\/interview-highlights-gail-kim-talks-about-her-experience-in-wwe-being-a-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Highlights: Gail Kim talks about her experience in WWE, being a producer,"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2823830166\" 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>The following are key highlights of Lilian Garcia&#8217;s interview with Gail Kim on her latest podcast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingglory.com\/\">&#8220;Chasing Glory&#8221;<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>\u2022On once saying WWE is racist:<\/strong> &#8220;I said they&#8217;re racist and then I made&#8230; I was clear on my statement. Then this writer or was really a fan, just writing his opinion about it. He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Gail Kim backtracked on her statement.&#8217; But I was being more&#8230; clarifying it. So, I got upset that he said I backtracked and I wrote, &#8216;wrong.&#8217; That&#8217;s all I said, &#8216;wrong,&#8217; and all the fans who read it completely backed me. And that&#8217;s why they pulled down the article. It wasn&#8217;t because&#8230; &#8217;cause they actually said they didn&#8217;t want to pull it down. They&#8217;re like, &#8216;We would be happy for you to write a piece to oppose it.&#8217; I&#8217;m like, I&#8217;m not writing a piece for you to help your website. Basically, the fans read everything, and they backed me and that&#8217;s why they took it down\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022On why she concluded her lack of push in WWE was due to racism:<\/strong> &#8220;I don&#8217;t understand what I&#8217;m supposed to do here because I do everything you guys ask me to do. And I&#8217;m like, I got to the point where I&#8217;m like, am I too Asian? I was literally highlighting my hair near the end to become more white. I didn&#8217;t know what to do at that point. That&#8217;s why I left. Because I&#8217;m like, I know I have more to give to this business and you hired me back for a reason. I did do something, and you brought me back for a reason. So, I just felt really, I don&#8217;t know, suppressed. I felt very suppressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022On whether she looks back with a different perspective now on her time in WWE: &#8220;Honestly, now in hindsight, of course I tried to look at the positives. I always tell everyone like, cause the fans will always be like, Oh my God, I hate the way that they used you. I hear that all the time and my answer to them all the time as well, <em>if they didn&#8217;t do that, I would never have had the career I had at TNA Impact and I would never have had done all those things and I&#8217;m so satisfied with my career and that&#8217;s because of the road I&#8217;ve taken. And what&#8217;s happened. <\/em>I am very vocal about things that I truly believe in but I would never do anything&#8230; Like I love. That&#8217;s my passion, my love. I&#8217;ve been part of this business for close to 20 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022What it&#8217;s like being married to Robert Irvine, who has had great success in his field: &#8220;I have to say it because I&#8217;m going to get it off my chest. Everyone&#8217;s like, oh she&#8217;s married to Robert Irvine. I Googled him and he&#8217;s worth whatever million. I&#8217;m like, I pay my own bills and I&#8217;ve always been independent my whole life. Yes, of course, he&#8217;s more successful and he takes care of the home and everything like that. But I&#8217;ve worked my whole life and I want to continue to be able to reach my own goals in my life on my own and with these girls and [crosstalk 00:17:47] Yeah, this is not his. I think people just assume.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022On becoming a match producer: &#8220;Maybe, yeah. Like I said, as soon as I became a producer, it&#8217;s like the fight started all over. 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