Chelsea Green reveals WWE’s alternative ‘grunge’ character plans for her
After a few years away from WWE, Chelsea Green returned at the 2023 Royal Rumble, following which she became a regular face on the roster.
Recently speaking on The Ghosts of Hollywood, Green opened up and explained that the promotion had originally planned a “cool grunge alternative character,” which was scrapped for a “Karen” character instead.
“We actually had this really cool grunge alternative character planned. We have a creative genius, Rob Fee, who is an LA guy and very much into the movie scene in LA. He works for WWE, and he helped me flesh out this character. I was going to be an LA girl from Silverlake. Grungy, smokes cigarettes. It was so cool and so different from who I am because I do feel like I’m a nerd wrapped in a different package,” Green said.
“When I came back, they were like, ‘Actually, today, you’re not going to that. Today, you’re just going to be (you).’ I’m like, ‘Oh shit. Who am I? What’s me? I’m just a white girl from Canada who wears sparkles.’ I was panicking. I was about to go to the Royal Rumble, and I read on the dirt sheets, right before I was about to go out for the Royal Rumble, maybe two hours before my debut, that they had talked about doing a Karen character for me. ‘This is not what we had spoken about, but this is something I can do,'” Green continued.
“I spoke to them and asked, ‘Can I just be in there for a record time?’ ‘Yeah, run in, and Rhea [Ripley] will toss you out.’ I looked at Rhea and said, ‘If you don’t get me out in record time, I’m going to be so upset with you.’ It was our funny thing. When I went in, we looked at each other like, ‘Let’s fucking go.’ She tossed me out, and I played up the Karen character. That snowballed into what it is now. That is how I am who I am now. The camera came on me after Rhea tossed me out, and I went into autopilot of who I thought this Karen character might be. I didn’t really have time to flesh that out. Week by week, we built on that, and nobody ever told me what they wanted out of it.”
Green entered number 20 in the Rumble and was eliminated within 00:05 seconds by Rhea Ripley, who eventually went on to win the Rumble that year.
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