Before joining WWE in 2021 and becoming Gigi Dolin, Priscilla Kelly made several appearances in AEW.
► In Nick Hogan's words
But he never signed a contract to stay in “where the best struggles.” What happened? She tells it in Rulebreakers with Saraya:
“It was something very rare. I was in All out, in the Casino Battle Royal. I did not last long in combat, but I think I had a good time. Then I did the Jericho Cruise, an episode of Dynamite and a House Show. I had a lot of fun and I was really trying to enter the company. They told me: 'Keep coming. We will find something for you '. So I kept going. At that time, she was married to Darby Allin, so it was easy: I just had to get into the car and go with him.
It was Covid era, so they did all the shows in Jacksonville. I was going, but it was weird … nothing really happened. I don't know if it was because of time … probably. At first, I wanted to go to AEW because many of my friends were there, and it was the first large television company with which I had contact. Then came the Covid and later, that same year, I had the Thyout with Wwe. In the end, it worked somehow. It was something strange. I was going, but I never signed a contract. “
Saraya mentions that he heard that there was an idea to present it as «Darby Allin's wife«:
“Maybe that harmed me, for rejecting that opportunitybut I had never been before in a large television company. I did the MAE Young Classic for WWE, but most people do not remember it. This was going to be the first time they introduced me on TV. And if that first time it was going to be like 'Darby Allin's wife in ringside', I was afraid, especially at that time, that they saw me alone as his wife.
At that time, I had a very firm attitude, very stubborn with: 'I am more than just a wife' '. You know what it is like … Brie Bella went out to the ring and the public chanted 'Yes', but they were chants by Daniel Bryan. That was my greatest fear. It is not that I thought 'the devil with my then husband', but I wanted to be an entity of my own. I didn't want to be that person who enters the ring and people start screaming 'Darby!' Maybe that harmed me, or maybe not. Don't know.”
