Chelsea Green Had ‘Grunge Alternative Character’ Planned For WWE Return

Chelsea Green returned to WWE in 2023, making a surprise appearance in the women’s Royal Rumble. Green had been released by the promotion in April 2021.

Green, who had been known for pitching a variety of characters, adopted a Karen character upon her return. That was not the original plan.

Speaking to The Ghost of Hollywood podcast, Green was asked how Triple H saw her fitting in once she returned and the conversations they had about her character.

“He told me nothing. Nobody told me anything. In fact, 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. 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 shirtsheets, 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.’ I spoke to them and asked, ‘Can I just be in there for a record time?’ ‘Yeah, run in and Rhea will toss you out.’ I looked at Rhea 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 auto-pilot 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.”

The rest is history.

Elsewhere during the interview, Chelsea gave an update on her ankle. You can find her full comments here.

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