- “I wasn’t treated with equal respect,” said Desire, real name Kim Neilsen when asked about TNA. “They couldn’t figure out how to use my talents and gifts there,” she said.
- “The environment at TNA, is not very pleasant. I just didn’t feel I belonged there,” claimed Nielsen. “Good and honest people don’t belong in the wrestling business.”
- Her last appearance for TNA was in September 2004 at the final show in Nashville. She was told she would be used against when the company relocated to Orlando. “They tell you what you want to hear,” stated Nielsen.
- When she called TNA management, she was told that they didn’t have anything for her and didn’t know how to use her. “If they couldn’t find a place for me, I came to the conclusion that they’re idiots that can’t write a good storyline,” said Nielsen.
- On TNA management. Dutch Mantel, “he’s horrible.” .. Jeff Jarrett, “a complete idiot.” Desire feels she broke her back for the company (she suffered a serious back injury in June 2003), and said Jarrett had talked to hear twice in the entire time she was in the company, each time uttering just a single word.
- When asked why she felt TNA never incorporated a women’s division, Nielsen said, “It’s a boys club there.”
- Three weeks after the move to Orlando, Nielsen called TNA. She talked to Mantel, who told her they couldn’t really find anything for her.
- Desire said it was Vince Russo that told her that the writers are less intelligent than she is, and that they are holding her fate in their hands.
- She feels there is no correlation between her departure from the company and Goldylocks’ disappearance. Nielsen said that Goldylocks never wanted to be an on air talent, and preferred to be an interviewer.
- She recently worked a Christian wrestling show promoted by Russo. Nielsen said it was her best wrestling experience.
- Nielsen said she has no interest in returning to WWE. (She had a developmental deal in 2002).
- Desire said that she is exploring her options at this point.
- She talked about Russo’s conversion to Christianity. Nielsen believes the business can make you miserable, and when she first met Russo, he continuously used the “f” word. At the time, Russo insisted that she perform in T & A matches.
- Nielsen said that Russo has talked about taking his form of Christianity and wrestling show on the road.
- “Him not calling me has really hurt my feelings,” Nielsen said of Dusty Rhodes, who trained her for a year and a half.
- She said in September, TNA laid out her matches point by point by point. “That’s ridiculous,” said Nielsen.
