TAYA VALKYRIE REMEMBERS exactly where she was when she got the phone call telling her that her dream was over. She was in Florida, in a house that still didn’t feel like home, even after almost a year living there. To this day, she still isn’t sure what prompted the call (or what, truly, went wrong), but the end result was the same. WWE was releasing her from her contract. Just like that, a decade-long journey—which had taken her from Western Canada to Mexico City to the WWE Performance Center—was over.
When the phone call ended, Valkyrie had no idea what she was going to do next, but she know it
