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It’s been almost a month since Mandy Rose unexpectedly lost her NXT title and was then fired by WWE.
After being NXT Champion for 413 days, Rose was reportedly let go over the adult content including explicit photos and videos that Rose has been sharing on her FanTime account and were leaked on the internet.
“In recent days photos from her page in the shower with her fiancé, Tino Sabbatelli, that can be characterized somewhere between rated R and rated X began spreading on the internet,” the New York Post reported at the time.
On Tuesday, Mandy Rose (real name Amanda Rose Saccomano) appeared on TV for her first interview since being fired by WWE.
“Because of everything that’s happened since then, everything happens for a reason,” Rose told Tamron Hall on her daytime talk show. “I can’t even say I was wronged, I am so forever grateful for everything the WWE has presented me with. So, I can’t sit here and say that I was wronged or not.
“I am hurt, 100 percent. I am very hurt, nobody wants to get that call that they’re being fired from any job, so I was very hurt, I was very disappointed. I was disappointed so much more because of everything that I put into the business, but just the last year and a half, I was champion for 413 days, I unified those two titles that we just saw, I was the third longest-reigning NXT Women’s Champion.”
“I also created this must-see faction with two other women that are going to be brought up, and I got to see so many women develop their characters, and they’re all younger than me and in the beginning of their careers,” Mandy Rose continued. “And to me, that was so important, because it was so rewarding for me.
“So, losing the title was honestly a gut punch, definitely. I was so disappointed, but at the end of the day, my purpose was gone, and that’s where I felt kind of lost and I felt confused, because of all the hard work that I put into [it].”
Mandy Sacs (Mandy Rose) tells Tamron Hall she is forever grateful for WWE – she wasn’t told her dropping the belt was related to her FanTime – she did make over a million already – she’d consider a conversation with WWE about taking it down to return. pic.twitter.com/bJkvk7S5oZ
— Female Locker Room (@femalelroom) January 10, 2023
Mandy Rose also mentioned on the show that WWE never told her why she was losing the NXT title or that her FanTime account was the reason for her release.
She also added that she’d “never say never” about a possible return to WWE, if they asked her to take down her FanTime account to do so there “would have to be a conversation.”
That conversation would certainly be about money since her agent said she had earned over $500,000 from her FanTime page in just the one week following her being fired from WWE.