Eva Marie Says Her Heat With Total Divas Cast Was Real, Says She Understood It

Eva Marie was not portrayed as popular with her fellow Total Divas castmates, and she says that the heat was a real thing. Marie came into WWE through a casting call and after a short period in developmental, she was put on the cast of Total Divas. She also went to the main roster despite just two weeks of formal training.

Marie noted that the animosity toward her was real during her interview on Insight With Chris Van Vliet. Marie noted that she and Jojo Offerman, neither of which had wrestling training, had the animosity of the cast. You can see the highlights below:

On Her Heat With the Cast Being Real:

“Oh, that s**t was real. I mean, we’re all good now, but that’s why I can laugh and talk about it, because that s**t was [real].”

On It Being a Matter Of Her Being an Outsider:

“For sure, and I totally get it. ‘Pay your dues. Who is this bitch? We’ve been going hard for the last X amount of years.’ You have to think too, not only were there two-minute matches, there is one storyline for the girls, so it’s a dog-eat-dog world. When you’re on TV, that’s also how you get paid, and also how you get known, how you get [fans], which the WWE has the best fans in the world, and when you’re on TV, you get the love or the hate from the Universe. So you want to be on television, and that’s the whole point of being in the WWE and on a show, so that you can go perform.”

“So now all of a sudden, they have two new girls stepping into the locker room. They know that they don’t know how to wrestle. So there’s one ping against us is that they’ve been putting in their blood, sweat and tears for years to get up on the main roster now that they think they have the opportunity for their time to shine. Now we have these two new girls that know nothing about the business. Don’t even barely know how to do a back bump or a suplex or run the ropes, and you expect us to, one, help them, and two, I’ll be damned if they think they’re going to take my spotlight. So you already had that, which I completely understand, that like, how could you not? But at the same time, when opportunity knocks, you better be ready to f*cking take it, because nobody else is going to do it.””