Gisele Shaw is grateful to those who reached out to support her after Rick Steiner harassed her at WrestleCon.
During the event, Steiner would harass Shaw when she was signing autographs for fans and according to sources would follow Shaw around the venue.
Speaking with “Cultaholic,” Shaw recalled the incident and appreciated those who reached out to her after the matter. She said,
“It is very unfortunate that that incident happened, especially that they are certain people that I watched growing up and that I looked up to growing up. It’s just unfortunate that it did happen. I don’t know what the motive was, but all I can say is that I’m just so grateful for the people that supported me and have been there for me when I went through that, because that was really rough for me personally.
“I didn’t want to get out of bed because of what happened, there’s been so many people that have supported me and said, hey, no, you’re not sleeping, you need to get out. Things like that happen unfortunately still. We’ve come so far as a community, but I feel like there’s still so much work to do so all we got to do is keep pushing forward and make sure we support in and out of wrestling.”
Steiner was kicked out of WrestleCon and the promoters said that he would not be allowed back for future events.
The WWE Hall of Famer was announced for WrestleCon’s next event which sparked backlash and was removed after he refused to give a public apology.
WrestleCon would later state that they would be establishing a Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy for future events.
