Steph De Lander Says She’s Done Her Best To Follow Advice From Drew McIntyre

Steph De Lander speaks on advice she’s received from Drew McIntyre.

For a lot of wrestlers, a WWE release can make or break their wrestling career. For some talent, like Drew McIntyre, it becomes a motivator to go out and prove you belong. McIntyre would return to the indies, and would later return to WWE. McIntyre has now become an example of talent working their way back to the company following a set back.

While speaking to Ben Veal in a new interview, De Lander spoke about receiving advice from McIntyre following her WWE release and how she has tried to follow his advice to the best of her ability.

“Yeah, Drew sent me so much invaluable information that now four years later, I still go back and read it just to get a little…. three years, however long it’s been. I still go back and read what he said just to kind of refresh and make sure that I’m on the right journey and whatever else. Every now and again, I’ll like touch base with him. Up until an opportunity with WWE six months ago, it came up and I reached out to Drew and asked his advice. So it’s like, he, he’s always there as like a sounding board and again, it’s goes back to that. Like you have to visualize what you want and it’s like, well, I want for when girls get released in the future, that the narrative is do this stuff to land up. I want to do that. I want to, I want what I do right now to be so like pivotal and important, I guess, that girls can look at me and go, ‘Oh shit. It doesn’t mean that it’s over if I get released’, and to be honest, that already has started happening with like recently released girls kind of being like, ‘Hey, what did you do? I don’t know what to do.’ So that is cool. But yeah, for someone like Drew, it’s like, I want to be the female Drew at some point. So how do I do that? Well, what better way than go straight to the source and ask him what he did and do my best to follow that. Yeah, that’s what I’ve tried to do.”

Last month, Steph De Lander spoke about possibly wrestling in AEW again. You can read more about that here.

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