TNA Knockout Velvet Sky was interviewed by The Miami Herald. Here is a quick recap:

On the breakup of the beautiful people:
“For a while it was me and Angelina [Love in the Beautiful People].I was never able to shine really and do anything on my own because she was always in the spotlight. Since then, they’ve broken up the Beautiful People, which I’m sad about because I wish they were still going forward with that. We had a lot of fun, her and I together, but I just feel like they broke us up, and I was able to be on my own as a singles competitor.”

“I just feel I have grown in the sense of you don’t have someone to have your back all the time. You don’t have the option to tag out and recuperate. I feel, more or less, being a singles competitor instead of in a tag team has helped me branch out and come into my own as a performer.”

On The early days Of the TNA Knockouts:
“That was probably my favorite locker room of Knockouts. I mean the girls who we have now, of course I absolutely love all of them, but we had a special bond because we were all starting from the beginning in a new company where we didn’t know what to expect. It was kind of like we were learning and exploring new things together. It has changed drastically from the Knockouts division of 2007 to where it is now.
“It’s still going strong, and we have a great group of girls, but it will never be the bond it was with the first ever Knockouts on the roster in 2007. It was brand new to everybody, and everybody was learning together. To this day, we just keep getting more and more girls coming to the roster. I’m grateful and appreciative for every girl we have here because they all work really hard.”

Differences between the knockouts and other women in pro wrestling:

“There are matches [elsewhere] where the girls will wrestle for three minutes or so and go to the back. They don’t say a word, and you really don’t know who is who. Here [TNA] we are so grateful we get the chance to be able to come into our own, have time to talk and have our characters develop. I just feel like that has us connected with the fans more.”

The female wrestler she would most like to have a match against:

“I would absolutely love to work with Amy Dumas one day, the wrestler formally known as Lita. She is the whole reason I wanted to get into this business. I have always been a fan of wrestling here and there, but when I saw her for the first time, I was just so blown away by her look and athletic ability and how she connected to the crowd, whether it was male or female.
“I try to pattern myself after her. I don’t do the high-flying maneuvers, staying on the ground, but she is the whole reason I wanted to get into this business and got into wrestling. If she were to come here, I think that would be awesome. I would love to work with her one day.”

Memorable fan moment:
“It was at a house show last year. Sometimes they will have me do pictures with fans, and the pictures get printed right there before the show starts. The next fan in line, she was what looked to be a female, and she came up to me. When she opened her mouth, I kind of questioned if she was a female, but I thought that wasn’t right. So we are getting ready to take a picture and at the last second before the flash, as I was looking at the camera smiling, she looks at me sticking her tongue out on my chin and left it there. I thought about what was going on here, but we did another one. The second time we did it she kind of did the same thing, but left it there a little bit longer. It was really kind of gross, but I come to find out she was a post-op he. You had to be there with everyone staring there sort of laughing and trying to figure out what was going on. Then I had a big drool stain after.”

You can read the full interview at the following link MiamiHerald.com Smooth transition for TNA’s Velvet Sky