Nikki Cross Discusses Approach To Presenting ‘Abby The Witch’ Character In WWE

Nikki Cross speaks about the character presentation.

There’s a new interview with Nikki Storm a.k.a. Nikki Cross that was conducted by Chris Van Vliet. Before her time with WWE came to an end, Storm was part of The Wyatt Sicks faction and portrayed the ‘Abby the Witch’ character.

Storm opened up about the presentation of the character and paying respects to the late Windham Rotunda a.k.a. Bray Wyatt.

“So Abby the Witch, she was Bray Wyatt’s creation. There was the character of Abby was already kind of an image in the WWE audience’s mind. So for me, this was Bray’s brainchild. So how do I take that, and how do I pay my respects to that, pay homage to that, but also make it my own, and do something that I wanted Bray to be proud of? I wanted his family to be proud of it, and with Abby, the backstory I came up with was that little girl in Glasgow, Scotland, that didn’t always fit in. She was always wanting to fit in, and then I took a little bit of what I had explored with the SAnitY Nikki Cross character and kind of tried to merge them, and that was what I wanted with Abby the Witch. It was to pay respects to Bray Wyatt and the Wyatt Sicks, but also put my twist on it because I feel like that’s what we would have wanted for me to become Abby, to be Abby. I’m so protective of Abby, and I would always carry the mask. It ended up becoming almost like a comfort to me. I would pretend almost like it was my Chihuahua who I was stroking, but it would be the Abby the mask. I would always be holding her, whether I was valeting the live events or at the television, and she became so much more than a prop to me. This was the goal that could get me through anything. I just always want to pay the utmost respect to any character that I’m given.”

Storm and her husband, fellow wrestler Big Damo, are now running the PROGRESS Wrestling and DEFY Wrestling promotions.