Natalya was recently interviewed by Yahoo Sports. This was in order to promote the TLC PPV on Sunday, where Natalya will be facing off against Ruby Riott in a tables match.
During the interview, Natalya opened up about her father’s death being used in her current storyline with Ruby. As we all know, Jim Neidhart passed away a few months ago at the age of 63.
Here is what she said:
“A lot of people have asked me, girls that I work with backstage, other superstars, people at
home, if I’m OK with this storyline and how do I feel about it. For me, this is what is going on in my life, this is the elephant in the room.My dad was a professional wrestler. He was a WWE superstar, he was a WWE legend before he passed away and I feel like in some crazy way this is like my dad is having one last run.
I feel like if I asked my dad right now, ‘Daddy, how do you feel about me doing this storyline?’ My dad would say go for it. He understood pro wrestling, he understood how, for fans to become emotionally invested in stories, there has to be emotionally charged content
.
In some weird way, this storyline has been strangely therapeutic because anything I’m feeling I can get it out. If I need to cry, I can get it out. I can let everybody see it, hear it and I can take the WWE universe on this journey with me. I need to speak the truth and I need to remind the world that my dad was a WWE star, he was special and everyone can feel that with me.”
On a related note, here are our match predictions for the TLC PPV.