Paige Issues Full Statement on Leaked Videos and Photos

– Paige has issued a lengthy statement on Twitter regarding the fallout of the leaking of sexually-explicit video and pictures of her online. The WWE star posted the statement via screenshots on the social media service, as you can see below.

In the statement, Paige says that she “made a big mistake” by putting her trust in “someone that took advantage of a young girl years ago.” It isn’t clear who she is talking about in that statement, though she notes that “it was my mistake and I’ll always take responsibility.” She goes on to say that she suffered emotional distress worrying about what she was putting Alberto El Patron and her family through and thanked them for standing by her through the fallout.

Paige calls herself a victim of “viral humiliation and cyber bullying” and said that she had impulses toward self-harm while she was dealing with the fallout because of what her family and husband-to-be were going through. She adds, “That’s why we are taking this massive negative and turning it into some kind of positive. We wanna bring those people to justice and take down the ones who are trolls, for lack of a better term. Bring awareness. Bring help to those who don’t have the tools or mental strength to do this themselves. To show men and women alike to always think about their future before they do something that may have a butterfly effect later on in life.”

She ends the statement on a positive note, saying, “Anyways. Onward and upwards. Only happiness. No longer talking about anything. Just looking into the future and being happy! I mean come on, I’m getting married? How can I not be happy!”

“I made a big mistake. Huge. I put trust in the hands of someone that took advantage of a young girl years ago. It was my mistake and I’ll always take responsibility. But the one thing that was the hardest was thinking “my husband is gonna leave me” “my family will disown me” but I’m blessed beyond words to have a family and a husband that stuck by me because they know who I am. They know I’m not a bad person and they held my hands through hell. Because as my husband says “you may feel like the devil is throwing you into a storm, but just remember, you are the storm”. And he’s right. But we are human. Unfortunately people don’t see it that way when they are behind a keyboard. They don’t think that we have feelings or that we don’t suffer. Not only was I a victim of viral humiliation but a victim of cyber bullying.

I had days where I wanted to physically harm myself. Not only for what millions was telling me but because my family and my husband were suffering the same fate from the internet because of my mistake. It made me and Alberto to wonder how people who aren’t as mentally strong as us can handle this? How many people have to suffer because of the internet and the cowards behind the keyboard.

Or how many men and women have fell into the same trap as me and made those mistakes?

That’s why we are taking this massive negative and making some kind of positive. We wanna bring those people to justice and also take down the ones who are trolls, with the lack of a better term.

Bring awareness. Bring help to those who don’t have the tools or the mental strength to do this themselves. To show men and women alike to always think about their future before they do something like this that may cause a butterfly effect later on in life. Now I know through all of this is..

No one will make me feel bad about my mistakes, I already know what they are and I already feel bad. But Alberto and I together can also make a change. My mistake could help people’s future. Think. Before you act.

Anyways. Onwards and upwards. Only happiness. No longer talking about anything. Just looking into the future and being happy! I mean come on, I’m getting married? How can I not be happy!!!!”

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— PAIGE (@RealPaigeWWE) March 28, 2017