Deville recently spoke to Sky Sports, where she revealed her starting out in WWE and how one question made her come out as a lesbian on national television. This is what she said:
“Mandy and I were both on the show. During the preliminary taping of the first premiere episode, they asked me if I was in a relationship. I had a girlfriend at the time.”
“Not only was I not expecting that question, I was in a bikini in high heels in front of Triple H and other WWE executives inside the ring! The other girls had spray tans and their extensions in, and they looked beautiful – and I was just like this MMA fighter chick. I felt so out of my comfort zone when they asked me that question.
“I thought ‘what do I do… well, tell the truth, right?’ So I said, ‘yeah, I have a girlfriend, but she’s not my wife yet’.
“I got nervous, and they all started smiling. I said, ‘oh my god, I just came out on national television’. And Triple H replied, ‘yeah you did!’ I just came back with, ‘oh well, that’s that!’”
Despite it being a surprise for Deville, she made the most of it.
“It was one of those spontaneous moments. It truly wasn’t planned, but I’m so grateful that it happened because, after that, it not only gave me a new realization of what it means to be open and true to myself but I feel like it helped me inspire other people.
“If you’re scared to do it, my advice would be ‘do it’, because it was the best thing that ever happened. I’m not saying there’s not going to be trials and tribulations along the way, but in the end, the best life you can live is the life where you’re true to yourself.”
Deville would explain why she was so open out her decision to come out so publically because she realized what kind of platform she had even on Tough Enough.
“My goal in talking about my sexuality publicly is just so that a scared little girl or little boy can see me do it and think, ‘wow, if she did it, then maybe it’s OK that I do it.’”
“It’s to encourage people to be themselves. Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality… it doesn’t matter.”
“We’re all equal and we should treat each other as such.”
She is currently in a storyline on SmackDown Live which might separate her from her long-time friend Mandy Rose on television. We will have to wait and see how the story unfolds.
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