Priscilla Kelly thought that she was headed to the main roster.
The former WWE star seems to be in a better place these days. Kelly is making an impact around the independent scene, but her WWE release did throw everyone for a loop. Before her release in May, Priscilla (who was Gigi Dolin in WWE) was paired with Shotzi Blackheart and Tatum Paxley as Chemical X. Once Blackheart, Paxley, and Dolin won their feud against Fatal Influence, Dolin became one of the more instrumental figures who crossed paths with several TNA wrestlers.
During an interview on Scott’s Scoop, the former WWE star explained the formation of Chemical X (Transcript courtesy of Fightful).
“So, I wanted to work with Shotzi (Blackheart) before I got injured, and she got injured at the same time. So for whatever reason, the universe did not want it happening right then. But we wanted to work together before both of us were injured the year prior, and when we both got cleared, we were like, ‘Hey, we really wanna work together. We have ideas,’ and then, they ended up putting Tatum (Paxley) with us and it just worked and I will say that the stuff that I did with Shotzi and Tatum was the happiest I ever was in NXT.
It was the most excited, happy, the most myself that I was in my entire time working for WWE. Shotzi’s like my best friend, and Tatum quickly became a very good friend of mine and we all just had great chemistry together, we had a great look. I felt like we were something so unique, and not just unique, we were so genuine about who we were. We weren’t playing a role of a character or a look or an aesthetic. We were what we portrayed, and I don’t know what happened to be honest."
Though Kelly was having the time of her life, she doesn’t know what happened towards the end of her WWE run.
"We started hot and we were having high-tier matches and… I really just don’t know. It’s just sometimes, it’s one of those things where, first of all, it’s always out of our hands as wrestlers. Unless you’re somebody that’s very, very high up on the totem pole, it’s always out of our hands creatively, and at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how good a thing you have going or how bad of a thing you got going, it’s all depending on how you’re booked. Because you could be absolutely horrible, but if you’re booked like a star, people are gonna believe you’re a star and you could be the best thing in the world, but if you’re booked like sh*t, then people are just gonna believe that you’re sh*t.
It’s all perception, and we tried to just kind of make the most of whatever we were given… We were on a very high note, right at the end. Me and Tatum — Shotzi came ringside with us — we were at Stand & Deliver, we won our Stand & Deliver match, we got a title match with Liv (Morgan) and Raquel (Rodriguez) for the following Tuesday. We were doing stuff at TNA."
For a moment, Kelly though she was going to the main roster. In fact, she was told by management that was a possibly that her, Blackheart, and Paxley would be called up after WrestleMania 41.
"We were crushing it, and I was like, ‘This is it. We’re going to the main roster.’ There’s no way. We’re so undeniable as a group. I don’t know how anybody could see this and not think that it could be huge, and then I went from that high of Stand & Deliver, title match with Liv and Raquel, title match at TNA to, ‘Hey, WWE is terminating your contract.’ It’s very confusing.
“We were projected and we were being told that we were potentially going to the main roster after ‘Mania. We were told that. So, to get released was a complete shock.”
Check out her full interview where Priscilla talks about her time in WWE, working with Toxic Attraction, and so much more.