Giulia discusses taking English classes, support from Kiana James
Giulia recently spoke about her real-life friendship with Nikki Cross in WWE and how Kiana James helps her with on-screen communications.
Speaking with Adrian Hernandez, Giulia spoke about her friendship with Cross and how she helped her cope with backstage struggles and called her “a treasure.”
“Oh, yes. Nikki Cross. She’s so nice. Oh, so scary. But she’s scary. But yeah, if she is not with me. Yeah, I always struggle, more struggle. But she helped me a lot.”
“She’s my treasure.”
The interviewer also asked Giulia about her friendship with James. Giulia said that the speed at which people talk in English is tough for her to decipher at times and James helps by making translations for her easier to understand.
“Also she helped me a lot because my English is bad, really bad. So, sometimes I cannot understand people who is talking so fast.”
Yeah, but some people super, super fast, super fast first and then she’s here. She’s standing behind me and translate easy English and yeah, she’s so nice and we, I think we respect each other and yeah, it’s really meaningful.”
Giulia also talked about going for English classes twice a week in addition to learning from her phone or YouTube whenever she gets the time.
“So, I go to English class twice a week and then also I take extra English class. And an app like on the phone. And YouTube. And if I have time, I sit down, study, study, study. So, every day because my English was zero when I came here.”
Giulia officially made her WWE debut on NXT at No Mercy in 2024 confronting then-NXT Women’s Champion Roxanne Perez. At New Year’s Evil in January 2025, Giulia defeated Perez to win her first singles WWE title. Prior to this she had an extensive 4-year association with New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
That following April, Giulia made her main roster debut on SmackDown. In June she dethroned Zelina Vega for the Women’s United States Championship that she later lost to Chelsea Green after a 133 day reign. Earlier this year, Giulia won back the title from Green on the January 2 edition of SmackDown.
During her SmackDown stint, Giulia and Kiana James were teamed up on-screen with the latter as her manager. On the March 6 edition of the show, they challenged Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair to a No. 1 Contenders match for the Women’s Tag Team Titles but lost.
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