Trivia / Christy Hemme

• Creator Breakdown: She admits that her release from WWE was so sudden that it "broke" her, and left her in a dark place it took her years to come out of; even with going to TNA and continuing her career.
• Creator's Favorite: TNA kept her on with a high salary, largely due to how well her Playboy cover sold. Notably in 2010, when several wrestlers such as Awesome Kong, ODB and Tara left due to being underpaid (though Tara later returned), Christy was being paid six figures.
• Dye Hard: She's a natural blonde, but dyes her hair red in tribute to her mother, who died of cancer.
• Friendship on the Set:
  • Although Carmella DeCesare was despised by the other Diva Search contestants, Christy was the one person she got along with. This was reflected in the former's 'Diss the Diva' promo - she insulted Amy Weber and Joy Giovanni but told Christy "I hope you win, honey."
  • In heavy contrast to their on-screen rivalry, Christy was close friends with Melina and loved working with her.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: A long standing rumor about her release in late 2005 from WWE was that she was apparently getting too close to Triple H backstage and Stephanie McMahon disapproved of it. Another rumor was that she found the schedule too tough - and TNA's was easier for her. A 2008 interview in TNA has her saying the following:
  “My departure from WWE was on my own terms because I stuck to my guns on my morals and values as a human being. I knew in my gut that it would be the end, but I also knew that carrying guilt for knowingly doing something against what I believed wasn’t worth getting ahead. Leaving broke my heart… but doing the right thing is something I will always be proud of.”
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • Lita and Trish Stratus were set to have a feud all the way to WrestleMania 21. But Lita tore her ACL quite severely at New Year's Revolution, and Christy's Playboy cover led to her getting chosen to have a match with Trish at the event.
  • Christy's feud with Victoria in 2005 came about because the latter volunteered to work with her to help get her more experience.
• Throw It In!:
  • The "cum-burping gutter slut" comment from her Diss the Diva segment was something she improvised, having been used to exchanging ridiculous insults in her time in dancers' locker rooms. She had no idea it was going to be bleeped out
  • The 'FFG' name for her TNA finisher was a joke she came up with and never intended for it to be the official name. Mike Tenay overheard her say it in a bar the night before and started saying it on television, despite her protests.
• What Could Have Been:
  • She has said that, if she didn't win the Diva Search, she still would have lobbied to be in the business anyway.
  • Apparently, the higher-ups in WWE didn't want her to learn how to wrestle, and she was learning on her own time from whoever she could get help from backstage. It wasn't until she got her Playboy cover that they decided to put her in the ring.
  • Her match against Trish Stratus at WrestleMania 21 was going to be ten minutes long, and they'd carefully planned out the spots to work around Christy's inexperience. Literally right before her entrance, Vince told her it was being cut down to six minutes and "Trish will call it to you in the ring". She's also said that there was talk of her winning the title but she refused, saying she was still too green.
  • Her promo about women in wrestling at TNA's Final Resolution 2007 was originally meant for Chyna. A schedule conflict meant she couldn't make the event, and Vince Russo had already written it, so it was given to Christy instead. She's also said that it wasn't intended as a heel promo but, as she was still "broken" from her WWE departure, it came across as heelish and they took the character in that direction.