i’ve waited a long time to speak out, i have a lot i have to get off my chest.
of the hell i was put through as a young up and comer into the business of pro wrestling
Set the story August 2016, I was pretty much a regular at CZW Dojo Wars in Blackwood, NJ. Which is where I officially became became acquainted with @Thefabulouslif3 and Rick Cataldo. Eddy and I were found doing those shows together and driving frequently.
I was told I was going to be in the “Fella Twins Academy” gimmick, where it would be Rick & Eddy as the HBICs, Me underneather them, and Penelope Ford and Maria Manic underneather me. (a mean girls hierarchy)
the way it actually panned out was Rick Cataldo putting every single one of us underneath him. But, we still hoped for the best. ( This did not effect M & P like it did Eddy & I )
We all loved this idea so much, that we all looked forward to the Academy’s WSU debut on 09/10/2016. I had a show in Hazleton the 9th. i drove from Hazleton, PA to Wharton, NJ to Brooklyn, NY, then all the way to Vorhees, NJ to pick up my fellow teammates.
During this show we had faced BaleSpin. After the show I had dropped Rick back off in NY. While driving Eddy home I had fallen asleep and I flipped my car multiple times. Both of us had come out alright, thankfully.
The following week after our accident was the inaugural A Matter of Pride ( Vol. 1 ) show. Everything for the most part was fine. Eddy and I were just happy to be alive so we were just taking in the moments.
In October Rick was always coming to Dojo Wars and our communication was starting to get messy. We had a “halloween costume contest” and I wasn’t even told about it until Ace Austin and I were already on our way to Dojo Wars.
CZW: Tangled Web happened and it was a stiff night of you will! haha, but everything for the most part wasn’t too bad yet. In November, tensions were rising between Eddy and I because Rick was turning all of us against eachother petty games.
When December rolled around Rick was fully bullying on our the members of the Academy and stole their personal cell phone and threw it away, as well as pulling them outside and spitting on them at a Dojo Wars event. Mind you we were all not getting along due to the drama.
I (a 19 year old almost two years in to the biz) was terrified of Rick. because I truly believed he had ULTIMATE power of me and the rest of us.
no january show, february tensions were a ALL TIME HIGH. Eddy and I DID NOT get along but (we eventually worked through it)
Rick had us all order Hot Pink Plaid gear. Eddy wanted to try on my gear to make sure it was cut right.
Rick told Eddy that I called him fat and not to wear my gear. which i didn’t. Rick texted Eddy and demanded him that he tweet me and tell me i’m not a part of the Fella Twins, and etc
In February 2017 I was convinced to cancel a booking where i was supposed to tag with Sonny Kiss to go Queens of Combat. Which was actually an amazing weekend for the Academy, work wise. But Rick was bullying Eddy the whole weekend and being SUPER nice to me.
Rick FORCED Eddy to drive him to North Carolina or he was gonna cancel the booking. I was coming from PA so i went separately I brought a friend so I wasn’t alone on this long drive.
when the whole weekend was said and done Eddy drove back without Rick because Rick was so mean to Eddy that he decided to stay in NC because he couldn’t handle being around Eddy. Or atleast that what he told me.
Mania weekend was well on its way and Rick no showed (per usual) so I filled in for him. Where Eddy and I had two matches together one at OCW the other at Wrestlecon.
I began to book the first ever @SanctuaryPAtv women’s division and I wanted Rick to face Anna Theresa (bc The Boy Diva vs Ms New York) obviously sound greats
he no-showed my show. I was upset but I filled someone in the show. The next day I flew out to Las Vegas. While there I teamed with @RAWR_Form at Freakshow wrestling. During the week I began experimenting with makeup, making myself Harley Quinn- like to explore character work
Rick told me he loved it and to take it to twitter. Where I got the “ #GiveJamieAChance “ trend started. and it was me crying saying “Am i your favorite pledge now” directed at WSU, which to my knowledge Rick had cleared it with WSU.
I was reprimanded by the company for going into business for myself and making them look bad- which is understandable bc i thought that they knew about the angle (which they didn’t i came to find out)
the frustration led me to no- show the May WSU event because I couldn’t handle it anymore. And then after a long week of spending time with a specific friend I was emotionally drained and no- showed A Matter of Pride Vol. 2
Vol. 2 , the heat between Eddy and I was so bad I couldn’t be around him cause we would have fought at the time. So i figured it would be best to no- show anyway, also i was having weird health problems i discovered in my car ride home from FL that week.
while other things were happening in my life, Rick took to twitter and tried to ruin my career and bully me out of the business. I proceeded to ignore him and do my own thing from June up until August 2017.
it’s August 2017 the only two openly gay men in the PWI Top 500 were Rick and I. I was in Dayton, OH for Rockstar when he immediately sent me an apology and mentioned my part in PWI.
I ignored the drama and accepted the apology and continued to do my own thing. I didn’t see Rick again until AMOP Vol. 3 in Rhode Island (which felt like a saving grace)
Eddy, Rick, nor I saw eachother at all within that time. So we all had personal journeys and grew up (well Eddy and I did)
Everything finally felt like it was falling into place with the girl world being at peace. I then worked for AMOP in August vs EFFY and in October vs. Ashton Starr
But Rick started telling ALL of us we needed to be in DRAG or wear WIGS and some of us just weren’t comfortable WRESTLING in that. (if i’m not getting paid my rate or more i won’t do something i’m not comfortable with) so he became unbearable and I stopped working there.
i felt SO strongly about this that I turned down Rick’s “offers” of matches against Victoria and Jimmy Jacobs and even Melina because he wouldn’t let me be ME.
In 2019 I wasn’t taking to Rick and in June i decided I wanted to work there and wrestle Melina because Rick and I came onto even terms. He came down to my house and we filmed the promo for my match with Melina. Later that month I left the country for two months.
I went through very deep personal things out of the country and came home knowing my match with my idol (Melina) would literally SAVE MY LIFE. So i came home and i wrestled her. which was a dream come true yada yada yada
i felt as though once again Rick had changed and the AMOP vibe and energy felt more clean and pure.
I worked for AMOP from August 2019 until December 2019 and everything felt fine. In January when all of that stuff happened I unfollowed Rick and his accounts to get away from the negativity as I wanted to keep my mind on the right track.
After I unfollowed I came to realize that someone VERY important to me had BLOCKED on everything due to his influence. I texted him and asked why they did and he played dumb.
So that was my final straw that it was over between JAMIE SENEGAL, A Matter of Pride, and Rick Cataldo. During the course of this pandemic Rick venmo’d everyone he did wrong $5.00 (including me) randomly to try and get in good graces with us.
Come to today 04/20/2020 where Rick is creating a new project and he tagged me i pictures of my match with Melina in the new project. So i texted him asking what this was and why i was apart of it being i do not affiliate and i’m not sure what my image is being used for.
Instead of answering my text, he blocked me on everything. and then when i called him out for blocking me he replied in such a shady manner.
Also within sometime I forgot to mention he filmed a documentary for VICE where at AMOP Vol. 3 a select few of us did interviews 10-20 minutes long to show the diversity. Then almost a year later the doc comes out with NONE of our footage and it’s ALL ABOUT RICK and not AMOP
I’m not the only girly with stories like this during this time BUT i will respect them and NOT tell theirs. That is for them to tell.
ALSO in this time frame from 2016- 2020 i went from being 18 YEARS OLD and a year in, to 22 YEARS OLD and now I’m 5 years in. Not the smartest just yet, but i have it together a lot more than i did.
ALSO know that @Thefabulouslif3 and I have ENITRELY made up since then. ❤️
Stuff like this NEEDS to stop. I TRULY believe that Rick Cataldo is the reason why LGBTQ wrestling is not as advanced as it should be. And that is not fair to all of my amazing, beautiful, talented sisters who deserve shots at their dream.
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