Appearing on the Lightweights Podcast, Chelsea Green shared the unique story of her 2021 WWE release, revealing that a phone call from her husband, Matt Cardona, gave her a heads-up just moments before it happened.
“Matt called me, like, three minutes before I was fired, and said, ‘You’re about to get fired.’ I don’t know how,” Green recalled. “I’m so glad he did, because it just gave me a split second in my kitchen… to, like, regroup, and be like, ‘How am I gonna handle this?'”
Immediately after the call, she began planning her next moves.
“I immediately wrote down all the companies that I had not been able to get to before I got signed the first time. So that was like Ring of Honor and NWA,” she explained. “Then I called WWE back and asked if I could be released from my contract early. So usually we have, you know, 90 days. I asked if I could be released, I believe, like on day 60 or 70, and forego my pay so I could get onto the indies earlier than the group… WWE said yes.”
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