Over the last few years WWE has released a number of notable Superstars including former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The IIconics. Following their release the team went on to join Impact Wrestling where they took on the name The IInspiration, and last year Jessica McKay and Cassie Lee issued a joint statement saying that they would be stepping away from wrestling.
During a recent episode of their Off Her Chops podcast Jessica McKay and Cassie Lee talked about the journey they’ve been on over the last few years, and they also explained why they turned down the chance to return at the 2022 Royal Rumble.
McKay: We did get asked to do the Royal Rumble.
Lee: Was that the same year? Was that 2022?
McKay: Yeah. Eight months after — eight or nine months after our release?
Lee: It was a little bit too fresh I think.
McKay: I think so too.
Lee: We certainly weren’t mentally prepared to go back into — it was too soon basically.
McKay: Too much at that time. I definitely loved getting asked. I thought that was nice.
Lee: It’s nice to be asked. It also wasn’t a guarantee so it was like, ah, I’m not gonna be the chump who says, yeah, I’ll do it and then they say, um, we don’t need you anymore. Okay, I’ll just go f**k myself (she laughed).
McKay: The release, that took a while to kind of heal from that so… I do (feel healed now). It took a hot minute. I wanna say it probably took over a year.
Lee: Well it was our dreams come crashing down in front of our eyes without any sort of control so yeah, it takes time.
Cassie Lee will be making her return to wrestling in October when she competes for World Series Wrestling in Australia. Stay tuned for updates.
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