Dreya Mitchell Reflects On Lodestone Camp, Almost Pooping Her Pants When She Met John Cena

At the end of 2025, Bayley held a multi-day all-women’s wrestling camp dubbed Lodestone, which she paid for herself.

The camp featured Izzy, Gabby Forza, Rachel Armstrong, Dani Mo, Janai Kai, Brooke Havok, Nor Diana, Liviyah, Nikki Blackheart as participants, and John Cena, Lyra Valkyria, Charlotte Flair, Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley, and Natalya as guests.

Dreya Mitchell, an independent wrestler out of Canada was part of the camp as well, and she spoke to Fightful’s Joel Pearl about her experience.

Dreya began by saying that Pat Laprade paid for her flight to ensure she made it to the camp.

“That whole week was a dream. Being there with one of my close friends, Leah Sparks, the only two Canadians, it was really nice to have that person who knows me and I know her. What I learned, people I met, John Cena,” she said.

Cena showed up at the camp on December 6, a week before he was set to have his retirement match against Gunther.

“The whole day, we didn’t know that any guests were going to swing by. We were all there for Bayley. She was so generous with her time and her money. Having her there and caring so much about women’s wrestling and its evolution was so meaningful. Charlotte Flair coming in. Rhea, Bianca, Nattie, TJ. It was an overload. The people I panicked the most with were Bianca and John. Bianca, what can I say about her? Especially as a Black girl, it’s nice to see someone going to go to those heights in the sport. She was a big inspiration. Her chilling there and being like, ‘I like your stuff.’ ‘Me? Little old me?'” 

Asked about speaking to Bianca and getting advice from “The EST,” Dreya said, “The day she came in and it was more of a practice, we didn’t do matches. We did little mock matches, but not too much. I went to talk to her. She loved my character and said I had a lot of life into it. I’m like, ‘Okay, I did something good.’ With John, it was weird because that was the last day we were doing matches. I went to change and I just hear everyone whooping and clapping. I’m in the bathroom like, ‘Wait a minute, what am I missing?’ I go out and Bayley just goes, ‘This is my friend John.’ I turned the corner and was like, ‘Oh. Okay.’ I told Ella Envy, ‘I’m about to poop my pants. Legit. I’m gonna crap my pants. This is John Cena, who is retiring a week later.’ I missed the chance to watch him wrestle live in Toronto. I was really sad about that, but the universe has my back and gave me the chance to meet him and get feedback from him.”

No pants were soiled when Cena showed up, but tears were shed.

Dreya is set to take on Mercedes Martinez at North Shore Pro Wrestling (NSPW) on April 11.

Fans can watch the full interview in the video above.