Carmella has never been one to hold back, and her recent comments about WWE have certainly struck a nerve—but now, things have taken a dark turn.
After 12 years with WWE, Carmella was released earlier this year, and she hasn’t been shy about how things went down. In an interview on Barely Famous with Kail Lowry, she revealed that the company completely ghosted her after she pitched ways to return in a non-wrestling role. What made it worse? Seeing other injured stars given opportunities she never got.
“That’s also what bothers me,” Carmella explained when asked about her husband, WWE commentator Corey Graves, still working for the company. “It doesn’t bother me that he’s still with the company—I’m so glad he has a job and he’s still there—but he still has a job. We had a kid, and he has a job, but I don’t. How is that fair? It’s wild.”
She emphasized that she wanted to work and wasn’t trying to sit at home collecting a paycheck.
“It’s so hurtful. The fact that I went above and beyond and tried to go back. It’s not like I was, ‘Let me sit at home and collect my paycheck and screw you guys.’ I tried to go back.”
But her biggest frustration? Seeing Corey Graves and Big E get TV roles while they were injured, while she was simply cut loose.
“Why wasn’t I afforded those same opportunities? That’s what I keep asking myself because I feel like I have a lot to offer. I have a fanbase, I represent the company well, why wasn’t I given an opportunity somewhere else when I’ve shown interest and shown that I wanted to contribute in any way that I could?”
She didn’t stop there, bringing up the gender pay gap in WWE.
“Is it because I’m a woman? I don’t want to keep saying these things, but it is 2025, and we still have a long way to go with equality. I think the women there are extremely underpaid compared to the men. That’s just a fact. Everyone there knows it. The women working there know it. They maybe can’t say it because they’re working there. Let me say it. I’m going to say it and speak up for them because it’s important. There is some work to do, I feel like.”
With such strong words, the reaction was bound to be intense, but one fan crossed the line completely on March 8, 2025, tweeting: “@CarmellaWWE needs to die.”
Carmella wasted no time putting the toxic side of the Internet Wrestling Community on blast, quote-tweeting the post with a sarcastic but telling response: “IWC, ladies and gentlemen…”
It’s no secret that social media can be a ruthless place, but this level of hate is next-level. Wrestlers deal with criticism all the time, but when death threats start flying over honest opinions, it raises a much bigger issue.
Despite the backlash, Carmella isn’t backing down. She remains firm in her stance that her WWE exit wasn’t just about being cut—it was about feeling like she never even had a fair shot.
Do you think Carmella was treated unfairly, or is this just the reality of the wrestling business? Drop your thoughts in the comments!