Sonya Deville: WWE Exit, Almost Shaving Her Head, Slapping Adam Pearce, Scary Home Invasion

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

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

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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https://cvvtix.com - Get your tickets for INSIGHT LIVE in NYC with VIP Meet & Greet! Daria Rae Berenato (@TheDariaRae) is a professional wrestler best known for her time in WWE as Sonya Deville. She sits down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood, CA to discuss her WWE contract not being renewed, whether a return to wrestling is on the cards, the scary home invasion that occurred in 2020, her work as a WWE General Manager and slapping Adam Pearce, why she didn't enjoy her SummerSlam match with Mandy Rose, being injured while reigning as Women's Tag Team Champion, her upcoming acting roles and more!

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Fleet.
0:19.3	How are you, my friends? Welcome back to another one here on InSight.
0:24.7	I'm CBV, Chris Van Fleet. Thank you for hitting play on this episode today. And thank you for
0:30.5	helping to make Insight, the number one wrestling podcast on the planet. Hit a German suplex on that
0:37.3	follow button wherever you're listening.
0:39.7	If it's Spotify, could I ask for a favor?
0:42.3	Could you leave a rating on there?
0:44.2	If it's Apple, could you take a minute to leave a review?
0:47.5	Just a few words.
0:48.3	Doesn't need to be anything crazy.
0:49.4	A few words would be so, so helpful.
0:51.4	But either of those, a rating or a review would go such a long way.
0:57.0	Our guest today knows a thing or two about podcasting. You knew her in WWE as Sonia DeVille.
1:02.9	Her real name is Daria Baranado, and she has a brand new podcast called Unwrapped.
1:07.9	So when this episode's done, go check out Unwrapped. It's a lot of fun.
1:12.5	Darius' time with WWE came to an end in February when her contract wasn't renewed.
1:17.6	And she has been so busy since then. Busy with the podcast, also busy filming three movies.
1:25.3	One of them that she co-stars in with Mick Foley. She talks about during
1:30.0	this episode, but it sounds like so much fun. It's a holiday movie. Holiday, and you know how much
1:35.2	Mick Foley loves Christmas. So this is fantastic. We talk about so much during this. We talk about
1:40.9	her WWE career, that feud she had with Mandy Rose. Do you remember they were
1:46.0	going to have a hair versus hair match? I asked you like, well, who was going to win this? Who was going to,
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