Mickie James Says It Was A Weird Day When WWE Sent Her A Trash Bag Full Of Her Belongings

Impact Wrestling Knockouts Champion Mickie James was announced as a participant in the forthcoming WWE Women’s Royal Rumble. Many people were startled after this announcement. Mickie recently reflected on her WWE release.

Mickie spoke about her initial sentiments about the iconic “trash bag incident” and the social media tempest that followed her release on The Ariel Helwani Show on Friday.

So it was a weird day anyway. I was walking out the door to go do a photoshoot for my single my music single I had coming out. So I was literally in one of the boxes, I actually got two boxes, but when one of the boxes had a arrived so I just kind of brought it in I was like, oh this is my stuff can I use any of this for my shoot like a jacket, because my jackets are in a drawer and stuff, so I wonder if there’s anything in there. So then I open it, and it’s in a trash bag, and I see it, and I’m like of course, whatever.

When asked about her release from prison in April of last year, Mickie said she wasn’t surprised and that there wasn’t much else she could do after her injuries. She also stated that she had little, if any, anger toward the corporation after her dismissal.

Yes and no. I’m never shocked by anything, you know? I feel like we’re kind of dispensable and that nobody is untouchable in that realm, you know? I think I was in a different place between agenting commentary, coming back from my ACL injury. I could just feel there really wasn’t enough, you know, you have that [we have that nothing for you kind of thing] there really wasn’t enough on television for them to justify keeping me around if I wasn’t completely just going to do an agent behind the scene type of role, you know like I just felt like that was kind of where I was coming out of like that WrestleMania.

Towards the end of the podcast, James was asked if she had any resentment toward the company after her departure, to which she responded that she didn’t see it that way, instead calling it a “heartbreak,” and that she had watched very little of the product during her absence, but that has changed recently.

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H/T to WrestlingINC for the transcription.