News broke back in November that James Ellsworth had been released by WWE. Ellsworth was with the company for over a year and was involved in some memorable moments.

Ellsworth was recently a guest on Chris Jericho’s podcast: ‘Talk is Jericho’. During the podcast, he spoke about getting the news that he was being released from WWE.

Specifically, he told a pretty great story about Carmella’s reaction to his release. Ellsworth managed Carmella for the last several months of his run in WWE.

It turns out that she stayed on the phone with Ellsworth to comfort him. Here is what Ellsworth said [h/t to Wrestling INC]:

“She called me right away, literally. Maybe a minute-and-a-half after I got off the phone with [Mark] Carrano, I’m sitting in the basement of my house, I haven’t even told [anybody anything]. I’m sitting there and I’m, like, balling, and I’m like, ‘what the hell?’ The phone rings and it’s her. I’m like, ‘she must know. Crap.’ And she was like, ‘James, oh my God, I can’t believe this. I’m so sorry. I hope you’re okay?’, like, just being the sweet girl that she is and I was like, ‘I’ll be alright.’ I was like, ‘I was okay before WWE. I’ll be okay after it.’ I said, ‘it hurts. It stings. But it’s life. Life’s not fair sometimes and I get that.’ And she stayed on the phone with me until I was ready to get off [the phone call]. That’s how very cool of a person she is. And we text almost every day.”

Ellsworth also told the story of how his pairing with Carmella came about, which you can read here.

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