Cassie Lee, the former Peyton Royce in WWE, opens up about how her husband Shawn Spears helped her craft her original character in WWE NXT.
Cassie Lee is mostly known today for being one-half of The IIconics with Jessie McKay (Billie Kay). However, Peyton was also growing as a solo performer before the team was formed and now, she is talking about the origins of her Venus Flytrap character.
Speaking with DS of Ring The Belle, Cassie explained how Shawn Spears would help her come up with the character that she first portrayed in NXT.
"Oh my gosh. I had a lot of help from my husband. You know, they were talking to us a lot about, 'Who do you want to present yourself as?' I thought, 'Oh my gosh, this is the first time this question has ever been posed to me before,'" she explained. "Prior to NXT, I had all my time on the indies and it's, I mean, back then at least, there was not much emphasis put on who are you. It was just like, how do you wrestle kind of thing. How do you wrestle and how do you look? So, It took me, it would stump me a lot, but my husband helped me, my now husband helped me so much with I was a dancer, I grew up a dancer, so I kind of had this way of moving and it reminded him of Poison Ivy, and then I love flowers and plants, like I'm a bit weird like that, so we're like, okay, Poison Ivy, we're thinking greens and purples and like, okay, Venus Flytrap, that could be such a cool concept, you know? So I kind of just blended the two and then we kept on working through it from there. I was trying something. I don't know if I can pull that off, but I gave it my best shot."
Spears recently returned to WWE NXT where he has been utilizing the "Chairman" character he created in AEW.
Spears and Tyler Breeze run the Flatbacks Wrestling School where they also teach the basics of professional wrestling while helping to shape the characters of the future, such as Avery Breaux.
Cassie Lee also recently reflected on her and Jess McKay's main roster debut in 2018. Cassie described the experience as "a dream come true."
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