Real lives of WWE stars
By The LilBoys
March 9, 2005
We’re taking a break from the Road To WrestleMania this week to bring you tales from a very different road. The WWE’s superstars spend around 240 days each year travelling around the States, and the world, to entertain us. And now they’ve written a book about it.
In Are We There Yet? – which is out in all good bookshops now priced £7.99 – some of the federation’s top stars reveal all about their road trips. There’s pranks, fights, touching moments, horror stories and three Divas in a bed watching a steamy lesbian movie.
Below we print some of our favourite extracts from the book.
Victoria reveals what happened when her, Miss Jackie and Gail Kim got closer then they’d planned after a booking mix-up left them all sharing a hotel bed:
“The three of us have this thing we do where we hang out in someone’s room before going to sleep – we give ourselves facials. It’s quality girl bonding time.
“With us all in the same room, we decided to do the facials, relax in bed and watch a movie.
“I have to mention that the facials we always do require us to keep on this weird-looking green mask for a while.
“So we’re at the green mask phase, we all get into bed and start watching this movie, I can’t even remember the name of it.
“It was about a call girl. At some point she gets involved with another woman and there’s some steamy action involved.
“The three of us just started laughing at the situation.
“I looked at the girls and said: ‘Do you realise the idea of three WWE Divas lying in the same bed, watching a lesbian film is probably a fantasy for quite a few guys out there? And imagine if they could see us now… all sexy in our green facial masks. I’m sure this is how they all dreamed it would be.'”
John Cena tells how a tour of England lead to the invention of the rapper character that launched his career and got him to where he is today:
“The shows were in two different towns that weren’t far away from each other, so we took a bus between them. After the last show, we got back on the bus to head to the airport.
“It’s quite a drive and we’re all just kind of hanging out doing whatever. The tour’s over, everyone is exhausted, but we’re all wired with energy, you know that feeling, kind of punch drunk.
“I think it was because of the shows. Whenever we go overseas the fans are incredible, they are just awesome to us. All that energy in the building was keeping us going on the bus.
“Now, we ended up having a lot of guys in the back of the bus who all like hip-hop, guys like Rikishi, Rey Mysterio and Chuck Palumbo. We all just started rhyming. It got to be my turn and, man, I must have freestyled for like five or ten minutes straight. It was just flowin’.
“Little did I know that in the front of the bus was half of the creative team who heard it and said: ‘We gotta do something with this.'”
Molly Holly had real trouble finding a hotel in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and ended up aghast at the place she had to stay before a Smackdown taping:
“I went into the first motel I saw near the airport and they had only one room left – the honeymoon suite.
“They have a honeymoon suite at an airport motel in Wilkes-Barre? As disturbed as I was by the existence of this room, I took it.
“Inside the room was a huge hot tub, about two feet away from the bed, and there were mirrors all over the ceiling. I was pretty grossed out.
“I took one of my T-shirts out of my luggage and used it for a pillowcase. I slept in full clothes and was still too bothered to sleep.
“The whole night I laid there trying to figure out what kind of people spend their honeymoon at an airport in Wilkes-Barre and was horrified to think about the types of things that went on in there.”
Sergeant Slaughter reveals how him turning on America and desecrating the flag during the first Gulf War lead to his eating patterns changing – especially when he was in one particular café with a friend after a big show:
“The two of us were just about the only people in the restaurant at this hour. We decided what we wanted and were waiting to order. No one came to help us.
“There was a man who looked like he worked there, standing in the back near the kitchen with his head down, but he wasn’t coming over to us. We waited some more. Still no one came. And a little bit more.
“Finally my friend yells out: ‘Can we please get a waitress or someone to help us here. We’d like to eat.’
“The guy picked up his head, and the first thing you could see is that he had a big Marine Corps tattoo on his shoulder. He looked over to us and pointed at my friend: ‘You can eat, but he can’t.’
“We laughed, assuming he was kidding around with us. He wasn’t. He had watched the show and didn’t like what he heard.
“The two of us had to leave. The only other thing open at that hour was a 7-Eleven up the road. I ate a few hot dogs and called it a night.
“Stuff like this happened often to me while I was playing the ‘bad’ Sergeant Slaughter. I got used to three-hot-dog dinners on the go.”
These are all extracts from Are We There Yet? The book – also featuring true, or mostly true, stories from Big Show, Rey Mysterio, Kane, Trish Stratus, JBL, Triple H and more – is published in paperback by WWE Books and costs £7.99.
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