Kayla Braxton l CG Classics Series

Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia

Lilian Garcia

Health & Fitness, Sports, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the “Chasing Glory Classics Series”, Lilian sits down with WWE On-Air Personality, Kayla Becker aka Kayla Braxton. This is both a heartbreaking and uplifting episode that you don’t want to miss. You heard this interview in 2019, now watch this NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN interview footage for the first time. Kayla will reveal the tragic beginning to her story and the difficulties that she faced as a child. She SHOCKINGLY reveals that she was a product of sexual assault thus never even knowing who her father was. She speaks on how those incidents still affect her relationships today and whether or not she holds any resentment towards her biological mother for exposing her to men who were both verbally and physically abusive to her. We will then learn how the foster care system gave her a second chance and helped to shape her winning personality we’ve all come to know and love. She will tell us the importance of heritage and what she discovered after taking the Ancestry test and if she is ready to reach out to her extended family on her father’s side, a decision she wishes on no one. On a professional level, Kayla will tell us about her time in the WWE and reveal why she initially TURNED DOWN their offer but what finally convinced her to take the job. All this and so much more as it’s about to get real, raw, and inspiring with Kayla Braxton.

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0:00.0	One of the reasons I said no to WWE, and I don't think many people know this, is a trigger.
0:06.2	So those men, that the abusive men, when I came home and they're watching TV, ready to hit us or do whatever, they're watching WWE.
0:15.0	So when I got called, I was like, I kind of kind of put like a side, that's why I didn't, I never watched it.
0:20.6	Before I hired here, I never turned it on, not because it was just because that trigger, it was triggered me.
0:30.0	One.
0:32.0	The following program comes from Executive Producer Lillian Garcia.
0:36.0	Every athlete is on this quest.
0:39.0	Every performer experiences real life challenges, defeats and sacrifices in an effort to make their dreams reality.
0:49.0	Singer, speaker and 15 year WWE host Lillian Garcia was the first woman to ever announce WrestleMania.
0:57.0	She continues to make history as the engage announcer for the professional fighters league.
1:03.0	And now she's giving you an all-access pass to the human interest stories of elite athletes, extraordinary entertainers and entrepreneurs.
1:12.0	Now let's embark on another fascinating journey of Chasing Glory with your host, Lillian Garcia.
1:21.0	Welcome everybody to Chasing Glory, I am Lillian Garcia, and can you see how happy I am?
1:27.0	We are back.
1:30.0	Well, it kind of looks a little different, but let me explain this to you.
1:35.0	We just got off an amazing 10-part series, as you know, on the WWE Network.
1:41.0	And thanks to you and my amazing guests, it was extremely, extremely successful.
1:47.0	Well, before we go into a brand new season, we wanted to get together my team and I, my amazing team,
1:55.0	and bring you something from the vault.
1:59.0	Because sometimes you have to go back in order to move forward.
2:04.0	And what we mean by that is, 2020 had some incredible lessons.
2:09.0	And then we started thinking about 2019 and 2018 and 2017.
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