Diva Dirt interview with Maryse
Interview available at Diva-Dirt.com.

On her release: "I think it was more mutual. I wanted to leave the company for a while now because I have other projects I want to work on and it was impossible to work on those projects being under contract with the WWE. I had six fantastic years with the WWE. I had a really good run. Two actually, with my two Divas Championships. After six years, I was looking at it and I said, 'I need to keep growing'. That's why I decided to take a break from wrestling and to leave because I wanted to focus on my next project which is House of Maryse."

"Also, living in LA, I have other opportunities that I want to work on and I would love to be working on the big screen. I love playing different characters, and I would love to be playing different characters in movies or TV shows, instead of continuing my career with the WWE. I'm a business woman, I need to keep growing and reinvent myself, so that's mainly the reason why I decided to be like, 'Okay, I think it's time to move on to the next chapter now'."

Fans being upset to see her go: "The way I see it is, you can be a character on a TV show for years, then the TV show gets cancelled and your favorite actress or favorite comedian, you don't see them for a little while and then you see them back doing something else. You can still be enjoying them performing on TV. To me, the WWE was... I was a character that I played for six years and now I'm ready to play a different character. They'll see me again on TV. Everything is fine."

Her evolution of her character: "They always saw me wrestle as a babyface when I was in developmental, so when I got to TV, I said that I wanted to be a heel. I said, 'Just trust me. Just let me be a heel and I'll show you'. To me, it's just characters. It's a little bit of you obviously, but it's just characters. All of that happened little by little, especially in the live events, I would do something and the crowd would react to it like the hand gesture or the hair flip. One day I did that. I was feeling sassy that day and I said, 'You know what, I'll try this tonight'. I did it and the crowd just reacted well to it, so I kept it."

Downside of the Divas division: "I feel like right now, all the girls they have in the Divas division are really talented and have so much potential. They can do so much. I just wish the WWE would give them more. You need to be able to build a character, you need to have time, you need to have a microphone and be able to talk so people can relate to you. Without that, it was really, really hard to build yourself- build your character, so I just wish they would give them more time and they would be more involved with the women's division. They deserve it. There's a lot of potential there, but you need to give a little bit to see that."

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