Steph De Lander On Her WWE Firing – ‘They Told Me To Do The Drew McIntyre’

Steph De Lander was released from WWE in 2022, and she says the company told her to do what Drew McIntyre did when he was fired.

During a recent “K&S WrestleFest” virtual signing, De Lander commented on her firing from WWE and what she was told when it happened. She said,

“They literally said to me, they were like, ‘Do the Drew McIntyre, and then come back.’ So then I messaged Drew, and I was like, ‘Hey, I got told to do what you did. What did you do?’ He sent me a whole bunch of stuff… I made sure I’m following what he did, and I look at people like Drew and Cody and Cardona and Samoa Joe, people that have either been fired and rehired or released or went to WWE later in their careers, or people that have been in multiple different companies and had really lengthy careers. Even Chelsea [Green], she got released and then did stuff on the indies and TNA, got rehired, and now she’s one of the most over people on the show.”

She continued, “So I think there’s ways to do it, but you have to be willing to…I had one day at home this week. You’ve gotta be willing to, after a full loop of TV, be gone for a day and then fly out on a Monday to do this. That takes a special kind of person. You’ve got to really want it. I think you can’t half-ass it, and if you half-ass it, that’s when it doesn’t work.”

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