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Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia

Toni Storm – Dealing with Betrayal, Anxiety and Depression

Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia

Lilian Garcia

Health & Fitness, Sports, Society & Culture

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week on “Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia,” Lilian sits down for an EXCLUSIVE interview with NXT UK Superstar and the winner of the 2nd Mae Young Classic, Toni Storm. In this episode, Toni discusses what it was like to win the Mae Young Classic and the immediate aftermath of winning the prestigious tournament. Although she’s only 24 years old, Toni has over a DECADE of pro wrestling experience and started training when she was only 13 years old. Toni talks the obstacles she had not just being such a teenager entering the wrestling business but many personal issues she dealt with. She would be diagnosed with anxiety at the age of 16 and would suffer from depression. She mentions how wrestling would be her ultimate outlet but still struggled with unfortunate circumstances such as trusting the WRONG people. For the FIRST TIME since the leaks of her private photos & video got released to the internet, Toni speaks out about her reaction as well as relating and getting inspiration from WWE Superstar Paige among others who supported her.



Toni has wrestled all over the world and shares what she learned from wrestling and living in Japan and find out why she identifies more as an Australian even though she was born in Auckland, New Zealand. All this and so much more in this one of a kind interview with a shining star from the NXT UK brand. Get fired up as it’s about to get real, raw, and inspiring with Toni Storm.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stand by.

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3, 2, 1.

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The following program comes from executive producer Lily and Garcia.

0:11.0

Every athlete is on this quest.

0:14.0

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.

0:24.2

Reality.

0:25.2

Singer, speaker, and 15 year WWE host, Lillian Garcia,

0:29.7

was the first woman to ever announce WrestleMania. is now the PFL MMA Cage announcer.

0:35.8

And now she's giving you an all access pass to the human interest stories of

0:40.8

elite athletes, extraordinary entertainers and wellness experts.

0:45.0

Now let's embark on another fascinating journey of chasing glory with your host

0:50.7

Lillian Garcia.

0:54.0

Welcome, everybody. It is Chasing Glory, and where in the globe am I?

0:59.4

I'm home. That's where I am. The Chasing Glory studio. I'm so excited because as you may know if you have followed the show I have been on the road kind of continuously

1:09.0

It's been awesome. It's been great. I have met a lot of you out there, which is my highlight really is.

1:14.8

But it was time to come home and get back into the studio. The studio missed us big time

1:20.6

Here in Hollywood.

1:23.0

Hollywood, that's right.

1:25.0

Yeah, we've got a big show, but I also have a big announcement,

1:29.0

guys.

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