It was crazy to say that I have the guidance of Paul Heyman out of all these people. Eight-year-old real me is like, is this real life?
At one point when we recorded 'Fighting with My Family' at the Staples Center it was an incredible feeling and I loved it but I was playing AJ Lee and I wanted it to be me.
The funny thing is I have known AJ Lee. She started in New Jersey; I worked in New York. We have crossed paths and she was always great with me and always sweet to me but obviously I went one way and she went to WWE.
I felt incomplete. I was always happy but I felt incomplete and that I needed to be pushing through.
Listen, if anyone knows Aleister Black, it's me.
I had Tommy Dreamer, who's amazing to me, from the very first day I met him - he actually was the one to say to me, 'I believe in you, I know that you can do this. Let's see what you can do at TNA.'
Well, I thought to myself if Rey Mysterio could do it, why can I do it? So I always took up his style, even as far as hitting the second rope.
My dad was a wrestler in high school. He was really good and had a great amateur background, but it was always his dream to be in the WWE.
When I got to MSG, I had to look around and just take it in. I looked at the crowd and couldn't believe it. Instead of butterflies in my stomach, I had hawks!
People don't understand that Andrade is the best thing going here in WWE. I'm just the one that enhances it.
