Nikki Cross says the Wyatt Sicks pitched ideas constantly across two years and that what happened to the group was never in the members’ hands.
The faction debuted in June 2024, formed by Bo Dallas in memory of his brother Bray Wyatt, and all five members were released on April 24 this year. Cross played Abby the Witch.
Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, she was asked when the momentum began to slip.
“We debuted in June, and we were an act, we were active for around two years, and there was a lot in those two years that was beyond our control.”
She listed what she enjoyed before she got to what she did not.
“We still got to work with awesome acts. Getting to work with the MFTs was so fun. We did the entire European loop with them at the start of 2026, and that was every night working with those guys, and I had so much fun with those guys because I just felt like I was working with my big brothers every night. I loved working with Solo, and he’s so intelligent with how he plans things and puts things together. And we got to work with Karrion Kross and Scarlett, who are such great characters.”
Then the diplomatic version of a complaint.
“There was just a lot of things that went on in the last two years that was kind of beyond our control. So I do what I always do. I do my best. I do my job and I do my best. And we would pitch different ideas, and we were always very active with our characters. We believed in the Wyatt Sicks. We believed in Bray. We believe in what we could all do as individuals, so we were always very active with our characters and pitching different ideas and working different stories. What could we go in this direction, this direction? So there was a lot of stuff over the last two years. It was just beyond our control.”
She named nobody. Joe Gacy, released alongside her, has been more specific, saying the group’s members were never allowed to develop individually and that WWE paused the act rather than letting the others carry it when Dallas was away.
On being chosen for it in the first place, Cross said she understood the reasoning and then deliberately damped down her own excitement.
“I was so blown away. I was honored. But it also made sense to me because no matter what, I know I can do any character that they ask of me. Because of the Nikki Cross Sanity, that was a dark character. Even though she ended up becoming a beloved babyface in NXT, there was still a darkness.”
“I stayed very balanced. I’ve always been like this. I’m scared to get my hopes up about it, and then it falls through, and you’re left disappointed. I don’t like that feeling.”
She was the first member to appear in the debut vignette, crawling out from under the ring, and spent rehearsals telling herself not to spoil it.
“It’s the same pressure I put on myself. Do not ruin this. Do not ruin this crawl. Don’t ruin the crawl.”
What happened afterwards is what she remembers most. The five of them stood backstage with Jason and Mandy Baker, who built the costumes and masks and had worked closely with Wyatt on the Firefly Funhouse.
“We came to the back that night, and we stood in a circle. Jason was there too. Jason worked incredibly closely with Bray. We always called it the Wyatt Sicks, and the sixth person for us at that time, for me, the sixth person was Bray. So it really felt like the six of us. Jason and Mandy were there, and we just got to toast and say to Bray and to Brodie.”
“Even now, thinking about that moment, if I think too hard about it, I’m going to well up inside and get the lump in my throat. That night couldn’t have gone any more perfectly. I’m so proud of that moment and getting to share that with those five people. Hopefully we made Bray proud, and I think the five of us did. I hope we did.”
Bray Wyatt died in August 2023. Brodie Lee, who was in the original Wyatt Family, died in December 2020.
