Shawn Spears: Former WWE star opens up on his release and fiancé Peyton Royce. Calls her his number one supporter, number one fan and best friend.
Shawn Spears formerly known as Tye Dillinger in the WWE, recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet about his release from WWE. He also spoke of Peyton Royce’s role as his fiancé in all of this.
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Excerpts from the interview
Why he was granted his release while others haven’t
“That’s tough to answer because no one else was granted their release. And it’s one of three things, maybe it was a mutual respect that I had built up with them. I was with them for eight and a half years total including my first time around. I did things right, I never got into any trouble. Carried myself well and always did what I was asked to do.”
“So that was one thing, the other thing is that statement that I put out later that evening on February 19th kind of handcuffed them a little bit. If they would have kept me, that might have made a lot of people unhappy. If they would have kept me and utilized me in a negative way or have me get killed on TV every week that would have made people upset. I think it put me in the best position possible to get what I was looking for.”
“And the third possible reason is maybe they didn’t see anything in me and they go ‘You know what? We don’t see any value. It is time to go, so go ahead and to be honest with you I really hope it’s that one. I really, really do because that just fuels a little more fire.”
Peyton Royce’s reaction to him wanting his release
“When I first brought it up, she was open to speaking about it and talking about it and we did on numerous occasions and then finally she could see that nothing was changing and nothing was getting better. My mentality in terms of bringing my work home with me wasn’t getting any better and eventually, she said to me,
“Look, I need you happy and I don’t care how that is, I don’t care where that is. I just know that going forward for the rest of our lives, for our future children and for our household now I need you happy. So whatever it is that you need to do to make yourself happy, I am with you 100%. Wherever you go I am with you 100%.”
“She has my back. And when you find someone like that, put a ring on it. Lock it down. She has been my utmost number one supporter and my number one fan and my best friend through all of this.”
