WWE News: Paige finally addresses the impact those 'leaks' had on her life and Xavier Woods

What's the story?

Paige recently appeared on Lilian Garcia's podcast where she went into details about her entire career which began when she was just 14-years-old.

Paige had made headlines all over the world this year for all the wrong reasons and she was finally able to share the impact that the leaks had on her life and her friendship with Xavier Woods.

In case you didn't know...

Paige was suspended from WWE on her birthday back in 2016 when it was revealed that she had violated WWE's Wellness Policy for the first time. Thus, began an incredible run of bad luck for almost 15 months for the former Divas Champion.

Paige was suspended for a second time a month later. She was also the victim of hackers who leaked a number of personal videos and pictures of the inaugural NXT Women's Champion that have since impacted her life.

Paige was then involved in a number of altercations with her fiance Alberto Del Rio before the couple split up few weeks ahead of her first WWE appearance in more than a year on the night after Survivor Series.

She has had a rough year and was unable to speak out about it, until now.

The heart of the matter

Paige appeared on Lilian Garcia's Chasing Glory podcast where she broke down in tears as she talked about the way the leaks have changed her life and the fact that she almost attempted suicide because of them.

She said:

"I had a ton of people destroying me. Cyberbullying is a real thing. 50 per cent of that is what made me want to kill myself. These people don't have a life.

I usually just snap out of things, but a girl wrote to me who told me I was her biggest inspiration. ... Just having that support system made me kick out. I do have the best fan base."

She also talked about how much the leaks have changed her life ever since, with her now not wanting to leave the house for fear of people mentioning the videos.

"I crave privacy. I want it. I don't even want to tell people the next time I speak to a guy, I don't want people to know about it, and it's mostly because of what's happened this year.

That scarred me, just people invading my privacy to a point where sometimes I don't even want to go out, because I'm like 'People are just looking at me bad'.

Of course, Paige wasn't the only victim of the leaks as Xavier Woods who had a girlfriend and child on the way at the time, was also part of one of the videos that were leaked. Paige talked about the impact this had on their friendship and the fact that she felt terrible for him and that she thought the entire thing degraded her as a woman.

What's next?

Paige returned to Raw a few weeks ago and has made quite the impact as she hopes to remind the WWE Universe why she was the first ever NXT Women's Champion and the youngest ever Divas Champion.

Paige needs to concentrate on her wrestling career now and get back to what she does best so that these leaks are just a footnote in her life by the time she retires.

Authors take

Paige deserved the chance to speak out and talk about how she felt about this invasion of her privacy so that the person who hacked her would be aware that they had an impact on her life even though they didn't know her. It was an emotional thing for Paige to reveal and it seems that she has been waiting to get it off her chest for a while.

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