Sonya Deville returned to WWE television on January 1, 2021 after losing a loser leaves WWE match to Mandy Rose at WWE SummerSlam 2020.
She was quickly paired up with Adam Pearce as an assistant GM.
Speaking to Ariel Helwani on the Ariel Helwani Show, Sonya was asked how the role came about.
"When I came back, I went into Vince's [Vince McMahon's] office and we were chatting about ideas and what I could come back and do. I was like, 'I just got this custom suit made. It's back at the hotel. I can go get it. Maybe I can just be a boss.' Not Sasha Banks, 'The Boss,' but something like that. He's like, 'Yeah, go get it.' I go get the suit, I come back in his office in the suit and he's like, 'That's it. You're going to wear it tonight. You're going to walk down the hallway and I'm gonna have people lined on both side and you're just going to look at them.' That's all he told me. I didn't know his plan was for me to be with Adam Pearce or be GM or any of that. He just said, 'Walk down the hallway in a suit.' I didn't know anything else. So, I walked down the hallway in a suit that night. That was it.
"As weeks went by, they were like, 'I think we're going to start having you do some stuff with Adam Pearce and you're going to be like an assistant to him. 'Okay, what's the endgame?' I always hoped the endgame was, obviously, me and Pearce aren't going to have a WrestleMania match, but we would get into some sort of thing and he could run Raw and I could run SmackDown. It didn't go that way. I just went with Adam Pearce for a while on Raw and SmackDown, super fun, and eventually got out of the role and into a story with Bianca [Belair]."
Belair only wrestled once in 2021, but returned to the ring full-time in 2022.
Elsewhere during the interview, Deville looked back on her WWE SummerSlam 2020 match against Mandy Rose. You can find her full comments by clicking here.
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