Saraya Knight - Destroying Traumatic Experiences

Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia

Lilian Garcia

Health & Fitness, Sports, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This week on “Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia”, Lilian sits down with British legend and women’s wrestling pioneer, Saraya Knight. In this episode, Saraya talks all about her love of being a female Independent wrestler, and her opinions about the current evolution of women’s wrestling. She speaks about her daughter Paige’s personal issues and how they overcame them as a family, as well as giving you an inside look at her family’s reaction when Paige got signed to the WWE, to when Paige had to suddenly retire, to then getting the news she was made Smackdown’s General Manager! This episode gets very real when Saraya shares her personal journey of growing up with unfortunate circumstances being abused by her stepfather as well as being sexually assaulted. She talks about being saved when she met her future husband, British wrestler Ricky Knight and how he helped her get through her traumatic experiences. She isn’t afraid to hold back on her story knowing that she can help many others and even discusses re-establishing her relationship with her own mother. This exclusive interview promises to be one of the most powerful and influential episodes to date. It’s about to get real, raw, and inspiring with Saraya Knight.

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0:00.0	Stand by.
0:01.0	3, 2, 1.
0:05.0	The following program comes from executive producer Lillian Garcia.
0:11.0	Every athlete is on this quest.
0:15.0	Every performer dives in head first.
0:18.0	Battling real life challenges and overcoming obstacles
0:21.0	in an effort to make their dreams reality.
0:25.0	Singers, songwriter, 15 year WWE host Lillian Garcia was the first woman to ever announce
0:31.8	WrestleMania. Oh yeah! And the first to launch her own podcast which gives you an all access past to
0:39.2	the human interest stories of elite athletes and extraordinary entertainers. Now let's embark on another
0:46.0	fascinating journey of chasing glory with your host Lillian Garcia. Welcome everybody to another episode of Chasing Glory where it gets real, raw, and
0:59.6	inspiring.
1:00.6	You guys, my CG squad out there, you keep me going. I can't thank you enough. Thank you for following me at
1:06.9	Lillian Garcia on Instagram and Twitter and Lillian Garcia official fan page on Facebook and of course our Chasing Glory
1:15.1	podcast page which is at Chasing Glory podcast on Instagram. Okay I have to say
1:21.4	that I had the most amazing weekend.
1:25.8	Actually, it was kind of like a Friday thing.
1:28.4	But I went to Chicago.
1:29.9	I went there on Thursday.
1:31.9	And because Friday, I had Ace Comic-Con that I was
1:36.1	moderating the panels with none other than Little Miss Bliss Alexa Bliss
1:42.0	with the Intercontinental champion, Seth Rollins, and of course,
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