Why This Is WWE's Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic This Year
More is always more in WWE, so the horror stories kept coming;
"Growing up if we weren't living in tents we were in trailers with holes in the floor or small houses covered in mould. And the more money my Dad did bring in, the more drugs and anger came with it. I had to grow up...without my Mom. I was literally left sobbing in a pile of dirty clothes. I had to teach myself what beauty and confidence were. With the lack of support I had at home, it was up to me to push myself. Imagine walking two miles in the rain all the way, soaked socks, wet schoolbooks, tired from juggling a job, [amateur] wrestling and schoolwork and doing the best you can, only to find your father high, passed out on the couch with a burning cigarette hanging out of his mouth. It makes you hungry for something better out of life."
Moving from childhood to teenage years in her own story seemed to mature the WWE one in a way that felt a little unsettling. The real life Evans showed incredible fortitude and resolve in converting her immense hardships into something motivation, the tone struggled to obscure a latent anger. Was this by design? Through impressive performance? Or, like everything else so far, was it an all-too-real look at how she sees life after being asked to revisit just how tough hers had been? And moreover, were some creeping wider anxieties about a red herring babyface turn suddenly being proved right?
"I got kicked out if my home at age 17 but I was still in my first in my family to graduate high school...I decided to join the military and I became a United States Marine at the age of 19. I graduated out of boot camp...I graduated out of military police school as top of my class - the honour graduate. And I also became the only female on the Marine Corps SWAT team out of Paris Island, South Carolina. Imagine looking up trying to find your Father's face in a group of cheering parents and realising that he's not going to show up. Imagine working your butt off in hopes that one day finally making your father proud only for him never to once show up to the most important things that you accomplished out of life...it's like no matter what I did and begged, and tried to show my family that addiction and depression weren't our only options, they never worked."
Regardless of how you view the armed forces or the military, Evans boasts an amazing resumé in the arena, and contextualised with her pre-Marine background it's easy to see why. WWE obviously thought this end justified the means. But it wasn't the end, and everybody knew it.
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