Earlier this month, we noted that Masyn Holiday has officially parted ways with WWE, choosing to leave the company on her own terms. Following her exit, she immediately updated her Instagram handle back to her real name, Darci Khan.
Before her departure, she was mostly known to fans on screen as a member of the faction ROAR Records on WWE Evolve, where she teamed up alongside Layla Diggs and Nikkita Lyons.
Her journey with the company began back in December 2023 when she was brought in through WWE’s NIL recruitment program. While she made her actual television debut on the third episode of WWE Evolve, she never quite made it to the ring for a match on the main NXT television show.
Today, Darci posted a video message on Instagram, where she confirmed that she has left WWE, and explained why she quit:
“All right. I’m scared. This is the video that I have been procrastinating to make, but I know it is necessary for me to make. Hi everybody, my name is Darci Kahn, formerly known as Masyn Holiday, and I have left the WWE. Ah! I left the WWE, yeah. I did.
I was very, very, very, very, very, extremely unhappy at that job. My depression and anxiety at an all-time high, lost myself. Like, I would look at myself in the mirror and didn’t even know who I was anymore. It was that bad. I cried for months straight.
And what kept me there is me telling myself, you don’t know what you’re going to do next. Well, what if you leave the job and you’re still depressed, and you’re still miserable? Those things kept me where I wasn’t supposed to be for way too long.
And literal the day that I left, it felt like the weight of the world was lifted off of my shoulders. And I’m not saying the WWE is bad. Not bashing nobody at WWE. Love the people there, but it’s just for me, and my purpose on this Earth, it just wasn’t aligning at all. The things that I desire in life and the places that the WWE would take me, just…they weren’t aligned.
And also what took me so long to make this video is I felt like I had to have everything figured out before I can come on here and say how happy I am, and how fulfilled I am, and just how at peace I am with everything. Like, God literally uprooted me from that environment and placed me where I am now, and I am so, so, so, so grateful.
And I had been thinking about quitting for a very long time. Like I said, I felt like I had to have it all figured out first. The day I quit, I did not plan to quit at all. It was all God, I’m telling you.
Before I walked in the building, I prayed to God. I wrote in my journal at 1:20 p.m. I said, ‘God, I need you to guide me through this practice. I need you to get me through this practice because I was on the verge of tears the whole day.’ I knew I didn’t have the strength to make it through practice on my own because I just did not want to be there. I did not want to wrestle anymore. It was an unbearable weight that I couldn’t hold myself. So I prayed to God, I was like, ‘God, give me the strength to make it through this practice. Like tomorrow will be a better day, like blah, blah, blah, blah.’
I walk into practice, my coach comes up to me and she says, ‘What’s wrong, Masyn?’ And you know when you’re already going to cry. It all just came out, and she’s like, ‘You want to talk about it?’ Now, backtrack. I knew that when I was going to quit, that I was going to talk to my coach first. So in that moment I was like, ‘You know what? Yeah, I want to talk about it.’ I was like, ‘I don’t want to wrestle anymore.’ And she was like, ‘Honestly, I could see it on your face every day.’ She’s like, ‘When you show up, it looks like you have to be here, not that you want to be here.’ And she was like, ‘In this business, you have to love it, you have to want it, it has to be in your heart.’
And I’ve always known that it wasn’t in my heart. Like I knew that I could potentially be good, I knew that it could potentially take me places, and I knew how grateful I am to be, or I was, to be in that position. So I held that very near and dear to my heart. But I knew that it wasn’t my purpose and my calling to be the biggest WWE superstar there. I woke up with that on my heart every single day, and when you’re taking bumps, when you’re taking suplexes, when you’re picking people up, like when you literally, your life is at risk every day at work, that’s a really heavy burden to carry every single day knowing that you don’t want to be there, you know? Or that this is not fulfilling your purpose on this Earth.
So talked to her, she’s like, ‘You want to go talk to Coach Bloom, which is our head coach?’ I said, ‘Absolutely.’ And I went and spoke to him and I said like, ‘I quit. I can’t do it anymore. My heart is not in it, and I don’t want to waste your time, I don’t want to waste my coach’s time, I don’t want to waste other athletes’ time, and most importantly, I don’t want to waste my time, you know, pouring everything into this.’ Because it is very, very demanding, it is a lot of work, it is very taxing, and if I’m going to do that, it has to be something that fulfills me.
I do know that God is leading me into the path of teaching. I don’t know what type of teaching. Maybe this form of teaching. Maybe me sharing my testimony is helping somebody right now. And if it helps one person, I’m forever grateful.
I thank WWE for every, every, every single thing they’ve done for me, for every single person in that building who’s poured into me, who’s helped me, who’s guided me. That chapter of my life taught me so, so much, and it brought some important people into my life as well. And I’ve grown so, so, so, so much from that chapter. So I’m forever grateful, but I am even more grateful to be walking in my purpose now, smiling. I wake up every day excited to take on the day.
I have no idea what I’m doing. I have no idea what’s next, but I do know that God is guiding all of my steps. He’s been sprinkling little stuff here and there showing me that he’s with me every step of the way. So I am not at all worried.
I love every single person who supported me. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart, for every single person who was involved in my WWE journey. Love you guys.”
"I was extremely unhappy. I cried for months straight" – Masyn Holiday aka Darci Khan confirms she quit WWE pic.twitter.com/WD5Tkg1WEZ
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