在一次采访中FoxNews.com，佩奇谈到了如何克服抑郁症:
“老实说，你周围都是有毒的人，那也没什么帮助。所以我做因为我记得走过一个超市,我,我看起来糟透了,因为你知道我,我很遗憾,我对这个很开放,我喜欢谈论它只是因为它帮助别人,但我,我不幸的是,突然WWE的药物测试,因为我只是在我的生活和经历一个糟糕的阶段我只是如此沮丧,我只是转向别的事情你知道吗?
我记得在逛超市的时候，我看起来很糟糕。就像我没化妆一样。我的头发打结脱落，我真的很瘦。我非常瘦，你可以看到我病得很重。有个小女孩向我走来，她看着我，就好像我是一切的女王一样，因为她不上社交媒体。她还不明白，但她抬头看着我，对我说，‘佩吉，我希望有一天能像你一样。’”我心想，“我到底在做什么?”For some reason like you’re in this bubble and then you just like click out of it and you’re just like, ‘What the hell am I doing?’
我没有听我家人和朋友的话。我的工作一直在努力帮助我，不断地尝试伸出援手，但我完全把这一切都屏蔽了，因为我当时的处境很糟糕，而这个小女孩设法让我振作起来。我当时想，‘哇，我是一个榜样，但我现在做的事情不太像榜样。”So I was like I want to have this little girl look at me in the future and be like, ‘Wow, look what she overcame. Not what overcame her.’ So I was just like OK. After that I was like, ‘I need to get my life together.’ So I did. I reached out to WWE and they gave me all the help that I needed when it came to therapy with everything you know emotionally and substance and everything — they helped me and that was like a few years ago.
所以现在我觉得自己比以前更强大了。是的。这一切都要感谢那个小女孩看着我，就像在说，‘你就是我要的。请不要把你的生活搞得一团糟。”So yeah, it’s the fans man who did it. They did it. Yeah, a couple of years later here we are! Getting the movie out there! Feeling healthy and happy!”
