Natalya Talk about Mental health in wrestlinghighlighting testimonies of Randy Orton o Charlotte Flairand reflect on their own insecurities. From his recent interview in Busted Open After Dark“The Queen of Harts” asks for more conversations like the one and her classmates undertake.
► The courage to talk about pain
«You see Randy Orton, he is so imposing physically … it looks like a Greek God. And then you listen to him talking about depression, about anxiety, and says things like: 'I wake up in the middle of the night and I can't sleep' … He hit me like a ton of bricks.
«We need to have those conversations. More people should talk about mental health. Because if someone like Randy Orton can open and say: 'It's okay to feel like that' … if he is going through it, it makes others feel good talking about it.
«I loved Charlotte's article Because it was very vulnerable. People see us and seem bigger than life, and then you see someone open and say: 'When the public booed me … I felt that they booed me as a human being' … and it is difficult, Because it's difficult. It's a lot of noise.
«Eddie Guerrero was the champion, and still did not feel good enough. He blamed himself because he said: 'I am the champion, and we should have had a total full'.
«When you see Big e, you would never think that it was someone who wanted to commit suicide. His sincerity about his struggles was so important and so easy to relate.
«I have had this black cloud of fear about having 'heat' behind the scene. My father had a volatile career in WWE, so when they finally hired me, I set out to be the opposite of him. What Vince would like, I would do it … if they wanted me to lose in three seconds, I would. If they wanted me to throw a gas, I would do it.
«Today I feel that the atmosphere has changed. Triple H gave me a great feedback after my fight in Bloodsport, and there I realized: 'You don't have to be afraid.' The fear of 'Heat' is stopping many people to do more.
«If Steve Austin had been afraid of having 'Heat', We may never have seen Steve Austin.»
