Arn Anderson was reportedly fired by WWE for allowing a reportedly intoxicated Alicia Fox to compete at a live event on February 10, 2019.
Fox would wrestle a couple more matches after the reported incident before taking a long hiatus from WWE.
Speaking on her Twitch stream, Fox reflected on the night the incident.
Fox began by saying there was a long night of driving and she had a lot of caffeine to stay awake. They didn't get to the hotel until early in the morning, and she was going to have a drink to pass out. Instead of passing out, she spoke with someone and had an emotional conversation. She said they got to the hotel at about 6:30 AM and talked to 9:30 AM. She did not note how much slept they got. She and that person split a "hair of the dog," which she believes was a small sake, the next day.
"When we got there, what happened for me was, one of the opponents in the match decided that they couldn't (do the) match. This match that we had been working on all weekend...I never liked memorizing matches. I guess an alcoholic would know what a hair of the dog, had to get me like a Red Bull because I was at the point of my illness that...I don't even know," she said. "This is what got me into rehab, and I'm forever grateful that the company had that support."
She continued, "This day, when we got to the arena, the match changed because one of the people said they had vertigo or something. We went from being semi-main or after intermission to first, which is fine. We'll just get on the road earlier to get to TV. With the match changing, a part changed. I'm still feeding the comeback and everything is working out. This part where I'm crazy and trying to skip the facts, if I were inebriated...I was there with people I was safe with. I went and had the match. Now, this is the rumor mill, my person didn't feel good and they were valeting. It's just confusing. I got confused on 'what did I do?' Whatever. The rumor mill is, everyone was talking by talent viewing and saying that I look drunk and I look like I'm bumping crazy. I had no idea. I'm in the match. I was kind of rush and stressed about changing the match. We did the match. I was with the producers. I don't know what's going on.
"By the time I got out of the match, we raise our hands or we lose, I'm being taken out by the medical team, they give me a field sobriety test in the training room. No Arn, no producer, Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman are popping their heads in there asking me what day it is, what city we're in. By this time in my career, I don't even know if I could even....I don't know. I felt like such a failure. I don't even know what happened. They give me this test, I walk out, and my producer didn't know where I was. I had no protection. I don't even know what came first, if it was the gossip that made the medical team do that, but I was embarrassed. My co-workers worked a story, embarrassed me. There were women who were there, they could tell me what happened. They ain't fucking tell me nothing. No context."
Fox stated multiple times while recalling the story that she is not crazy and that no one told her what was going on.
"My producers, the main people who are supposed to give the proper information to the office, the person I trusted, Mr. Anderson, I could talk to him. I could talk to Arn. I love him. I still haven't even been able to talk to him about this. It's so killing me. That was a bridge built, water deep. I went to the locker room, I packed up my stuff, all the girls came in acting like they didn't know what was going on or why I was sad. 'What's going on?' I don't know, y'all tell me. No honesty," she said.
Fox continued, "I don't think that was my super downfall to get into a 30 day treatment center was because I kept drinking, I still didn't know I was an alcoholic. The next morning, I was packing my bags, I left, because I was pretty upset. I didn't know what was going on. I wasn't going to volunteer any information. 'Yeah, must have been the hair of the dog I shared.' We drove to the next town. I cried in the car and we were directed to meet the office person the next morning, and I said verbatim, 'I'm a drunk. I'm tired. I don't like these things you're doing to me. I don't understand. I am curious about my royalties. You made me draw my logo on Nikki Bella's merch hat. If she's selling merch, do I get some? I'm digging myself into a hole. What is left of me? I don't have anymore scraps.' I go back to my hotel and it was told to me, 'You and Nikki Cross are going to win the titles.' 'I can't do that right now.'"
Fox said that she felt she had nothing left to give and was over being on the road and traveling and doing things like exploiting her family on Total Divas.
Fox did return to WWE for a cameo appearance in the 2022 Women's Royal Rumble. Her contract with WWE expired in May.
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