Jazmyn Nyx on Her WWE Departure Decision & Revealed She Wasn’t Paid for TNA Work

As noted before, former WWE NXT talent Jazmyn Nyx, real name Jade Gentile, departed from WWE due to her contract had expired this past September. Nyx had recently revealed that the reason for her departure was due WWE’s offer for a new three-year deal did not make financial sense for her and she was not making six figures nor $80,000 per year in NXT.

A recent episode of The Ariel Helwani Show featured Nyx as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Nyx’s thoughts about her decision to leave WWE.

“I can truthfully say that I was not expecting to leave. I wholeheartedly felt that this was going to be my life. I was ready to put in the work and see where the journey took me, but it came down to making a living. Everyone needs to make a living and some people’s living is different than others. For me, after my three years and being on TV for two years, I expected there to be some sort of compensation for the work that I put in, and it didn’t end up that way. That’s okay, but that’s why I had to part ways. There was no bad blood. ‘I can’t be living on this. I value myself in this way, which you guys might not yet. In the future, value goes up, and if they want me back then I’d love to go back. In that time and that moment, it felt like the right decision for me. I didn’t want it to be, but you have to do what you have to do.”

Nyx also gave her thoughts about the negotiations she had with WWE for a potential new contract that ended up not happening de to WWE not willing to budge on their offer.

“It was honestly a long process for me because it was a back-and-forth situation. They reach out and say, ‘Here is what we’re offering you for the next three years.’ You either accept or try to negotiate. I tried to negotiate and the offer stood as it was. Went back a couple of times, ‘What about this?’ ‘No, offer stands.’ No budge.”

Nyx also gave her thoughts about if the monetary offer from WWE was similar to what she was looking for and revealed that she was not paid for her work in TNA during her time in WWE.

“I just wanted any compensation. I felt, after three years, there could have been a meet in the middle. After I realized there no budge, that’s where it stood. There is nothing else I can do or say. Any sort of raise would do, and there was no raise. Yeah, just based off people who were coming in like me at that rate. After two years of being on TV every Tuesday, working for TNA as well, I felt like a raise would be understandable.”

Nyx also gave her thoughts about how WWE shut down potential outside work for her for reality television show Love Island.

“I wasn’t on TV yet and I thought that that would be a good route if I went and then came back and they kind of shut that down.

A couple of shows reached out after that when I was Jazmyn, and obviously I turned those down myself because I’m in a different position now, I’m on TV, this is my life, I want to succeed in what I’m doing now.”

Nyx also gave her thoughts about her current plans to continue her wrestling career while pursing opportunities in reality television and social media.

“I obviously would continue wrestling if there are other opportunities there, and I probably will, I just don’t know where and when and how. I’m just still making my way.”

Transcript h/t: Figthful.com, F4WOnline.com