Diva Dirt Discussions – Mickie James, Gail Kim, Maria Kanellis talk Tag Me In

Tag Me In United launched earlier this month with the goal of undoing the stigma surrounding mental health.

We were joined by three pioneers of women’s wrestling. Mickie James, Gail Kim and Maria Kanellis for a positive and open conversation about mental health in the wrestling business.

James started the conversation explaining how she became involved in the project:

“Christy and Gail you all contacted me after you know Daphne’s passing. I think that hit all of us on different levels. It kind of triggered a few things just because we’ve lost a lot of friends in this industry from mental health.

Things that have like you know come from that it just kind of it’s really powerful. I think it’s something that we all kind of steer away from talking about because it’s such a masculine sport. Such an adrenaline and like you know aggressive sport that you’re not supposed to seem weak. But we are still human at the end of the day and we are very weak and especially us because we’re such girly girls I mean we’re very tough don’t get me wrong but we are clearly girls at the end of the day and we are sensitive and we feel and we kind of you know we’re really hurting on different levels.”

Kim added:

“I think it really just kind of started, we’re all in the same generation. Obviously myself, Maria and Mickey and the Christy’s and Lita‘s and everyone, we all kind of came together in a smaller way for Ashley. When that all happened and I think we saw really good things happen when we started speaking with one another and working with one another and opening up that conversation. Then Daphne hit recently and it, I don’t know it just may be because we saw her face I don’t know what it was but we’re just like you know what this is enough and we don’t want to just say ‘okay it happened we’re so sad’ we knew we could make some changes.

There’s no face to this whole campaign, because we wanted it to be the wrestling community more…