Becky Lynch
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433 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 28 Jan
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Years and years and years, completely destroyed how I looked at myself and everything like that and how I valued myself.
on how I looked. From somebody who had gone from valuing myself on my substance and what I brought to the table in terms of wrestling and my craft, I was then just now, I was just conforming to what I thought thought they wanted and what society wanted. But by then, then I was like, I don't even know if I want to wrestle anymore. Maybe that dream is over.
It's time to be realistic and get a real job. Then I ended up being a flight attendant.
Yeah.
Well, then I was like, well, then I started thinking like, oh, well, maybe I'll be a fitness model because that'll be easy on my body. But I couldn't maintain it because I was so hungry. I just loved eating. I loved eating so much. And so then I became bulimic and all of these things. And it was really just going from being somebody who cared about
About their mind, who thought their mind was powerful to just thinking that I was a set of abs and a pair of arms, you know, and that was where I put my focus. It took a long time to shake that.
35 wow no no no no quite but like um i think it was a process it was a process it was it was a process because i was a flight attendant hated it but was still trying i then did the bodybuilding competition i came third by the way wow out of four okay Four entries. Yeah, it sounded impressive. So I did the Buddy Button competition, was like standing up on stage.
Oh my goodness, I'm so glad they just, everybody didn't have an iPhone back then. But I did that and I was just like, why am I standing?
in my underwear showing people my muscles like this this isn't this doesn't feel like me you know because for some people for some bodybuilders it's such an artistic thing they are sculpting their body they are they love it they love the discipline of it but for me it was it was some sort of a means to an end some sort of way for me to be validated by society or something that that
And it just didn't feel authentic and true to me. It just felt like I was, yeah, I was just trying to be something that I wasn't. It was just consumed by my body will be my vessel too. But if it looks a certain way, then I'll be successful and whatever. And then I started to realize that part of wrestling that I loved, it wasn't just the training, it was the performance. I loved the performance.
The crowd, I loved... The creativity. I love the storytelling. And I think throughout my whole life, I found that storytelling is what draws me more than anything. Like in school, I was terrible at every subject except English and history because it was just stories. Like it was it was hearing stories and learning about these stories. And I rocked at those subjects, terrible at everything else.
And so then I went back to school to study acting.
This is in Dublin.
Yeah, I'm kind of all over the place. But like at 22, I went back to college, studied acting in Dublin and then did a year in Chicago. And that felt like, okay, now I'm back. Now I'm back a little bit. And then it seemed more like I was part of a creative endeavor. Really?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Dusty Rhodes was the promo teacher at the time, and Dusty loved his broken toys, the ones that were rough around the edges, but he saw that had some soul or something about them.
just just a little something just a spark and he he tried to bring that out and so i didn't know i didn't know who i wanted to be i did there everybody was like find a character find a character right character so i try out all these stupid characters none of them worked no and of course none of them were they were all awful but like they were but but it was it was the trying it was the yeah yeah it was the being able to put yourself out there and
throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Nothing stuck. But I tried and I kept trying and I think he valued the creativity more than the outcome. Because if somebody came in, they were the total package. I can point to, there's a wrestler called LA Knight at the time who
right now is making big waves in wrestling but at the time he was down there we started on the same day and he had everything he had it just down he had it down you know so Dusty was smooth he was great yeah Dusty was like yeah you're great but he had no more work to do because he already had his act down whereas somebody like me was completely lost completely screwed had and I think I think there was a combination of Dusty and William Regal
That saved my job many, many times because they saw that there was something, something there in this Irish girl that had not a clue. That had not a clue. Because I didn't look like any of these other girls that were like stunners. I wasn't great in the ring. But there was something when I talked that...
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