Mickie James recalled talking to Tommy Dreamer saying she was thinking about quitting and watching all her friends get fired, and while she didn’t have a backup plan, she noticed that every woman being called out wasn’t even a wrestler.
“They don’t want wrestlers, so I was like, ‘Hey! “Maybe I’m in the wrong place, maybe I’m doing something wrong,” she recalls, adding that she’s taken acting and modeling classes to be more of a diva, but is ready to quit.
James then went home and had a long talk with his mother, and even though he was never the biggest wrestling fan, he convinced her that he was about to make a terrible mistake. In the following days, she began her performance as a stalker, inspired by Single White Female and Sensational Cher.
“I created this superfan, and it was based on the fans I’d seen in my life,” she explained, adding that she was later inspired by the biopic Selena starring Jennifer Lopez, which told the true story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, who was killed by a crazed fan.
He then recalled that her initial appearance Lita was supposed to be a superfanand claimed that the storyline was originally going to run for 18 weeks. James also praised Trish Stratus for being so open to the story and credited her for the angle’s success. He then came out to Michael Hayes, who urged him to speak to Vince McMahon, but claimed he had been silent for a long time.
“I say. “Oh man, I’m definitely on the next cuts,” he recalled, adding that he only learned the details of his debut the night of RAW.
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