Earlier this month WWE released a number of wrestlers including Cedric Alexander, Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows and Giovanni Vinci to name a few. It was also reported that the company informed Sonya Deville that her contract would not be renewed.
Sonya Deville had been with WWE for 10 years and it seems that the situation regarding her contract was very unexpected because she recently revealed on Daria & Toni Unwrapped that she had been negotiating a new deal.
“As a lot of you guys know, 10 days ago now? I got the call. My contract was not being renewed with the WWE. I was in Washington D.C. for a cheer tournament with our little one. I was actually running on the treadmill, working out with our older one Giovanna and I got a phone call. We were in the middle of negotiations and so I thought the phone call was gonna be… Yeah, middle ground that we met on, an agreement, a contract and it was, ‘We are not renewing your contract.’ So, for complete transparency, which this is really the first time I’m saying this, I was shocked. We (Deville & her wife) were both shocked.”
“There’s so many different factors. There’s so many things to lead us to the mindsets we were in leading up to the phone call. The fact that I had been there for 10 years. The fact that I had a great relationship with almost everybody from backstage to talent to across the board and everyone was like family. I mean, you work somewhere for 10 years consecutively, you become like a family so, it was unexpected. Nonetheless, in typical Daria fashion, the first thing I did was (spring right back into action).”
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