Peyton Royce, now known as Cassie Lee, joined WWE in 2015 and she went on to find success as one half of The IIconics. Last year WWE split The IIconics up, and unfortunately both members of the team were released this year due to budget cuts.
After The IIconics split up Cassie Lee had a meeting with Vince McMahon where she discussed the future of her character, and she’s previously joked that the meeting probably led to her losing her job. During a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet the former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion discussed the meeting again and she noted that she pitched an idea for her to become a motivational speaker, but the idea was never used.
“I just went in there with what I wanted to present, and we just moved on from it so quickly. In my head I was thinking how can I steer this conversation back to that? I really thought something was there and I hadn’t explained it properly. I sat in that room with him and Bruce Prichard for 45 minutes tossing up ideas.”
“At one point we had come up with the idea that I was going to be a motivational person, a motivational speaker. Vince loved how much I had sacrificed to be there. I didn’t want anything else in my life other than to work for him. He loved that and was so thankful for what I had sacrificed, my family, everything in Australia, my whole life. So that’s what we had come up with and obviously nothing ever came of it. But that conversation wasn’t a complete dud. From my perspective it was this is what I want to present and move forward with.”
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