In an interview with The Breakfast Club (via Fightful), Mercedes Mone said she left WWE in 2022 because she didn’t like how then-Chairman Vince McMahon talked down to her. She said she went to “everyone” but nothing was done about it. She also noted that she wasn’t sure if she would return because AEW was her home now. Here are the highlights:

About his departure from the WWE: “I left for a lot of different reasons. A lot of personal things happened with me and the chairman at the time. I didn’t like the way he spoke to me and the way he condescended to me. I thought to myself, ‘It’s time to listen to your soul and your heart.’ That’s when a light went on in my head and I left WWE. A leader told me to.”

About how Vince talked to her: “Yeah, a little crazy. That day he talked to me a little crazy. It was enough for my light source to come into my body and say, ‘If you stay, this is not OK. This is for the rest of your life. What are you going to teach your children? What are you going to teach people?’ If you feel like this after ten years here, you have to stand up for yourself.’ That’s what I did. A light came to me and said, ‘You have to go away and do something better for yourself.'”

On the allegations against McMahon: “I’m not the lawyer. I don’t know.”

When asked if she would return to WWE: “After the way AEW has treated me, I don’t know. I don’t think so. I feel like I have the best relationship with AEW right now and that’s true, I’m living my dreams and it’s the best place I’ve ever been mentally and physically. To be able to have new dreams after 14 years in the industry is the best feeling in the world, so AEW is my home right now.”