Priscilla Kelly Reflects On Run With Toxic Attraction In WWE, Comments On Jacy Jayne’s Success

Kelly dives into the group once known as Toxic Attraction.

As part of the NXT 2.0 rebrand, a new group emerged into the fold named Toxic Attraction, consisting of Mandy Rose, Jacy Jayne, and Priscilla Kelly, formerly known as Gigi Dolin.

They would go on to capture the NXT Women’s and NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships. The trio was together from 2021 to 2022 until Mandy Rose was let go from WWE.

Their year together was looked back on by Kelly during her appearance on Scott’s Scoop. She stated that she was hesitant when the idea of them being together was first suggested, because she did not think they looked like they belonged in a group. She went on to state that Rose was a good guide for them.

“When the idea was first pitched, I was definitely a little skeptical. I didn’t feel like the three of us really looked like we would be in a group together, because I was the kind of weirdo, punky, whatever, and Jacy (Jayne), I don’t know what she was and then Mandy but then Mandy was always Mandy Rose. So it was like, ‘Hmm, how is this gonna work?’ And I think it’s one of those things where it accidentally became a very, very popular thing that just clicked and just worked… I think, for whatever reason, we ruled NXT for a full two years. It was Toxic Attraction’s show… I was only six months into my time at NXT before I got put in that group, so to be able to take off right out of the gate with something that blew up so fast as it did, it was really cool. To go from, I just got here, to, holy crap, I’m like the Women’s Tag Champion now… it sucks that NXT wasn’t traveling at the time because of COVID. If NXT was on the road the way it is now, going state to state, working in these bigger arenas at the time of Toxic Attraction, it would have been really cool to see what we could have done with that as a group, because we didn’t really get that opportunity until right there at the tail end when we started traveling more but, that’s the only thing that really sucked about it.

I mean, that’s basically what put me on NXT’s map. Sure, I could have been a singles competitor, but, with wrestling, sometimes if you come into a foreign space, such as a new company or a new roster and you’re by yourself, it’s very sink or swim, and there’s no in between and there’s always the chance that I could have just fall into the mix with everyone else so, to be put in a group like that that took off with Mandy Rose, it was a big deal, because it gave me that platform to basically bloom into the star that I am now. So, really without that, who knows how different my career would have went and I’m sure I would have been successful either way, but I think that kind of just set me to the trajectory of just going up from there. Mandy was always a really good guidance coming from the main roster and she had done so much in her career. Mandy was always like big sister, and I don’t have any sisters so, she was almost like that big sister role. She was always, like, kind of helping me become a better, more elevated, more mature version of myself. Because when I went to NXT, I think I was 24 — I might have been 23 — but anyway, 23, 24. So anyways, that’s super young, and again, I just came from the indies. I didn’t come from other TV companies. I had worked for AEW, I had worked for a couple other smaller TV companies but, this was the biggest scale thing I had done. So having Mandy there for a lot of these big matches and big opportunities that it was my first time doing, she kind of helped guide me in that way.”

Kelly was then asked for her thoughts about Jacy Jayne’s success post-Toxic Attraction. Jayne is leading the Fatal Influence group and is the reigning NXT Women’s Champion. She also held the TNA Knockouts World Title. Kelly said the following about Jayne’s success:

“Well, I’m happy for her.”

Kelly is back on the independent scene and has made her way back to Japan. She wrestled at Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling’s ‘Wrestle Princess VI’ event and challenged for the International Princess Championship.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Scott’s Scoop with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.