Just… surreal. Very, very surreal in the best way possible."
Nightingale also opened up about her mental health struggles. "I will say that it wasn't like a diagnosis.
It was very much me just being in a place. People have thoughts about self-diagnosis.
I have people that I speak to. We have mental health help here.
That is one great thing about AEW.
We do have a therapist who travels with us and is there whenever anybody needs it," she explained.
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"I went in to record that stuff for Countdown that day, and I was going through it and having a really hard time being Willow and thinking about wrestling.
If we really think about it, the past year has been so crazy in a world-sense. Who isn't struggling right now?"
she said.
Nightingale detailed the emotional challenges before her title win. "They were like, 'What are your thoughts on this?'
'Man, really, I don't know. Why do I deserve to be a champion?
I don't know. This is how I feel.
This is what I've been going through. This is All Elite Wrestling.
Everybody is the best. We all deserve it.
At the end of the day, this is how I've been feeling, and I've still been showing up.
When the opportunities are there, it doesn't matter how I feel; I've been delivering,'" she recalled.
"Speaking of mental health, it's very important, especially being the happy and smiling girl, to be honest and say, 'That's unrealistic to have that 24/7.'
