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Indi Hartwell: "I Should've Spoken Up More In WWE" (Exclusive Interview)

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Simon Miller interviews TNA star Indi Hartwell at WrestleCon, talking Hartwell's time in WWE, growing up as a wrestling fan in Australia, breaking the United States and achieving her dreams, returning to the indies, her favourite moments in WWE (and why it had NOTHING to do with winning titles), and more...


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0:00.0

What goes to wrestling?

0:01.0

Simon Miller here at WrestleMania with Indy Hartwell.

0:04.0

How are you Indy Heartwell?

0:05.0

I'm doing good.

0:06.0

How are you?

0:07.0

Very well.

0:08.0

So I'm going to take over this interview straight away because when we approach Indy, we try

0:12.0

and be nice, you said my name back to me and you told me you watch all the YouTube wrestling

0:17.0

nonsense.

0:18.0

Yeah, I'm a big fan.

0:19.0

That blows my brain.

0:20.0

Why, though? Because I'm weird and British,

0:22.5

and British people just presume. What's British got to do with it? We can't accept compliments,

0:25.8

or people being nice, or any kind of success ever. I wasn't being nice. Like, I was just saying

0:30.6

the truth. Like, I'm a fan and I've been watching for years. That's really cool, though.

0:35.1

Because I think, I mean mean it's a boring conversation,

0:41.0

but some people do get into wrestling and they forget the whole reason you got into it to begin with is because you love it so much. Yeah, 100%. It's hard to be a wrestler if you're not

0:45.2

fan of it, right? Why would you want to be thrown on the floor all the time if you didn't like

0:49.2

doing that? It's a shit job if you have to love it. You have to love it to put your body through that.

0:55.1

Also, you had an extra layer of, I don't want to say difficulty, but obviously you're in Australia.

1:01.3

It must sometimes feel like you're on the most, in terms of what wrestling is, big in America, etc.

1:06.5

Did you ever feel like how am I ever going to pursue this?

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