Former WWE Superstar Melina Perez recently spoke with The Huffington Post for an interview. Below are some of the highlights.

On working for WWE: “I talk to people now, and they thought I was so confident. I was doing all this awesome stuff onstage, and they didn’t realize I was going through so much loneliness and hurt backstage. It was like high school.”

On how much her TV character affected her real life: “I’m proud of that character, then and now, because it was just a character – and she was great at being a b—h – but when it came to my personal life, it felt like everyone around me thought that’s who I was. I just felt so invisible.”

Check out the complete Melina Perez interview at HuffingtonPost.com.