Andrade has officially addressed the rumors surrounding his departure from WWE earlier this year. In mid-September, He was reportedly fired “with cause” by WWE due to multiple wellness policy violations and is under a one-year non-compete clause. In the aftermath, reports surfaced suggesting that he had stopped answering calls and failed to show up for scheduled WWE dates.
Speaking to Eduardo Bates in a new interview, Andrade addressed his second Departure from WWE, noting that he doesn’t feel bad about it, and claimed the he never missed dates or stopped answering the phone.
“The truth is a long story. I don’t feel bad about my WWE exit. I am very grateful for how much, or little, I did in that year and a half. I never missed dates and never stopped answering the cell phone as many gossipy people who broke the news said. Yes, I was traveling and they called me. What happened was that I had a day trip because I was not scheduled and they called me to me. I returned the call at about one or two hours, but nothing to do with the fact that I didn’t want to answer or that I disappeared. It was one, two, three hours that I didn’t answer and it was just the company sending me a message that ‘where are you?’, and things like that. I don’t know who got that story that I didn’t want to answer. I was out of the country, I explained to them that it was because of the time difference, the internet, no signal, many things, but nothing to do with me never answering them or anything like that.”(H/T to Fightful for the transcription).
