Lana: Rusev Day, WWE Legends Deal, The Rock Segment, Bobby Lashley Wedding, Romantic Storylines

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

CJ Perry (@TheCJPerry) is a professional wrestler and valet best known for her time in WWE as Lana. She sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood, CA to discuss the launch of her new podcast "Identity Crisis", taking time away from wrestling, her husband Rusev and his return to WWE, how the Lana character was pitched to her, being part of a hilarious moment with Nia Jax, being involved in multiple romantic storylines, and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet!
0:05.0	Yeah.
0:06.0	Great to see you. Congratulations to see you, too.
0:21.7	Congratulations in your podcast.
0:23.2	Thank you so much.
0:24.2	Thank you for coming on mine, but congratulations.
0:26.5	You just launched it.
0:27.6	Thank you.
0:28.0	It came out last Monday.
0:29.7	It comes out every Monday identity crisis.
0:32.1	How were you able to get Rusev on the show?
0:35.2	Well, I don't know if people know.
0:37.1	He's my husband. I know that it's Lannis first ex-husband, Roussef, but Miro is C.J.'s real-life husband. I love how you always say Roussev. Like, I say Roussev with, like, just like this. Yeah. But the way you say it.
0:54.2	Roussef.
1:14.4	Bari, you add all these letters to it. Well, I speak Russian. I speak Bulgarian. I speak English. You speak three languages? Like actually. Yeah. Like C.J. does, not Lana. No, CJ speaks three. Lana speaks like sex. Wow. Yeah. Which other ones does Lana speak? C. Esp Spanish, Latvian, and she's right now learning Chinese.
1:15.5	Incredible.
1:15.8	Yeah.
1:16.4	Thank you.
1:19.7	How did the first episode go for your podcast? It went really well, like shockingly well.
1:22.9	People are subscribing, people are commenting, people are invested.
1:27.3	Our editor actually reviewed everything.
1:30.0	They were shocked. They were like, this is the best podcast, the highest we've ever performed.
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