Katie Lea Burchill Says PG Era Killed Her Gimmick, Talks TNA Departure and More

– Katie Lea spoke with the Pancakes and Powerslams Show for a new interview. Some highlights are below:

On Tommy Dreamer giving her a WWE opportunity: “I’d actually gone to a tryout. [WWE] had these open tryouts at the time. So I’d gone to that, and I didn’t hear anything. Then I met Tommy Dreamer on an independent show, and he told me if you came back over, give me a call and I’ll get you booked and a tryout. And [eventually] he hired me.”

On why the Katie Lea Burchill gimmick ended: “They wanted to do the incest thing, but they wanted to treat it with respect and make it a good storyline rather than just throw it out there because I was going to get some slack anyway, which in the end, unfortunately they had to pull it because of the PG.”

On who came up with her Winter angle in TNA: “That was Vince Russo’s idea entirely. I did have a couple of meetings where I sat down and threw some ideas around. He was always very open and receptive. He would take what he liked and write the storyline. Essentially, that was Russo’s idea, and that was his storyline. I’ll always be grateful for that.”

On her TNA departure: “I was told nothing. I was not even told one thing. My contract was up, and they just stopped flying me in, and that was the end to that.”