In her new book The Last Hart Beating, Natalya reveals she was once threatened with being fired under the old WWE regime.
Natalya’s husband, former WWE superstar Tyson Kidd, suffered a spinal cord injury after taking a Muscle Buster finisher from Samoa Joe in 2015 and had to officially retire from in-ring action in 2017.
The situation caused a lot of heat for Natalya, who was stuck in the middle.
“Back home, TJ was still recovering from his surgery. Even though it had been nine months since he was injured, he still hadn’t heard anything from WWE or Vince about any kind of restitution for his injury,”
wrote Natalya, saying Vince McMahon and the WWE wouldn’t offer even an apology as that would be admitting fault or responsibility.
“He couldn’t even move his head and Vince hadn’t reached out a single time to check if he was okay. Their account of what happened was completely different than TJ’s.” she continued,
Natalya was warned by WWE management not to mention what happened at work.
“They denied everything and finished by saying that if I talked about TJ’s injury at work or disparaged the company, they would trigger a clause in my contract and let me go. I smiled and pretended that we hadn’t just gotten a legal letter from the company denying TJ’s account, and threatening to fire me if I talked,” she wrote.
Natalya stated she had to monitor her conversations closely so as not to say anything that she shouldn’t.
Kidd currently works as a backstage producer for WWE.
