10 Things We Learned From Paige On Lilian Garcia's Podcast
Candid conversation.
In years past, you never heard wrestlers speak candidly in public.
Well, that's not strictly true. If you loitered around outside the hotels they were staying at for long enough, it was perfectly conceivable that you could catch one of your favourite stars enjoying a morning cigarette, and then telling you to get lost (and then filing a restraining order preventing you from coming within 100 yards of them ever again).
But, in general, today's so-called reality era - where just about everyone is sharing snaps on Instagram - has engendered a far more open relationship between fans and wrestlers (which is just amazing if Kevin Owens putting people in their place on Twitter is your cup of tea).
There's also about a million wrestling podcasts, one of them being Lilian Garcia's Chasing Glory, on which Paige was recently a guest - something that has sparked an inordinate amount of coverage in news sites and forums across the web.
Why? Because it was an inordinately raw, emotional and revealing interview in which the former Divas Champion made public her feelings about the events of the last year for the first time.
10. She Is Incredibly Driven
We as fans are, at times, perhaps guilty of overlooking the sacrifices made by our favourite wrestlers, often attributing their success to God-given athletic ability or else just getting on the right side of the right people backstage instead.
But Paige's coming-of-age story really underlines the dedication it takes to reach the highest level. While the rest of us were playing video games and drinking outside supermarkets, the then-teenaged future WWE star travelled around Europe independently to expand her wrestling portfolio.
As well as the affect this had on her social life - you can't really expect to keep too many friends when you're jet-setting around the continent learning to wrestle - this has also taken a pretty hefty toll on her physical health.
It turns out the accumulative wear and tear associated with throwing yourself around a wrestling ring for the best part of a decade isn't exactly conducive to peak athletic condition - which explains why Paige has spent so much of the last 18 months on the shelf.