Renee Paquette did a “Q&A” on this week’s “Oral Sessions” podcast. She answered questions about random topics including 90s nostalgia, cooking recipes, and the American citizens test.
Here are some highlights:
Renee talked about taking voice classes for WWE: “I would just like to go on the record as saying I do not have a Canadian accent. I worked very hard to develop this nonregional dialect. When I first signed to WWE, they made me take classes to get rid of my Canadian accent. I’m sure it was more than what it is now, but it was very faint, if any. I had to go into Manhattan once a week and sit with this woman. She would give me words I had to read during the week to make sure I didn’t mispronounce vowels or some s**t.”
Renee was asked when she got interested in professional wrestling: “I guess I got interested in wrestling probably back in when I was in fourth grade. I was very much into wrestling at that point. It was Undertaker, Stone Cold, The Rock. I remember all my friends loving Kane. I went and saw a Monday Night Raw in Toronto. My dad is a concert promoter and he worked at all the arenas in Toronto so I got to go and hang backstage. Meeting Mick Foley and Chyna, I will always remember that so vividly of meeting them, seeing them, and being enthralled with what they were doing. Then I took a bit of a hiatus. I played a lot of sports growing up so I wasn’t watching that much wrestling. Then it crept back up into my life in my early ‘20s and here I am.”
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