Melina talks Obout Rehab For Her Torn ACL, Screaming At Ringside & Her Split Entrance

Brian Fritz of AOL FanHouse has a new article online featuring quotes from Melina. Below are the highlights:

• Rehab for her torn ACL: 

Everything has been really tough. It's been strenuous. I always get worried because I'm thinking I'm not getting better quick enough. But after a while, I've just accepted the fact that it's going to take as long as it needs to take and I was really worried coming back this week to see what I can do. We were just going to do some wrestling therapy, like wrestling movement therapy so not actually wrestling to see what I could do. I was scared at first and some things felt awkward but then all of a sudden I did a little more and a little more. Then I just started going at it and was like yes, let's do this! I'm ready and it didn't hurt!

If it's more mental than physical: When I wake up in the morning and before I start, I need to warm up more than I ever did before. But it gets stuck a little bit and I can tell when I'm doing certain exercises like when I'm isolating the knee, it has less strength that the other knee. So, I still have a ways to go but when I was rolling around in the ring today, it was as if I never left. It felt good.

• Her scream when she managed MNM: 

Maybe. I admit, back in the MNM days when I would do that scream, I loved it. I love that scream because my mom would scream when ... our family would scream when we would do to baseball games. This is the way my family cheers so that's part of me. But then sometimes when I watch my wrestling back, I watch matches back, I don't realize that I'm doing it a lot. I'm sorry people, I'm so sorry! Seriously, I don't realize how much I do it. Sometimes, I annoy myself. It's just a natural thing. When I do really put something into it, I really do just kind of scream. It's just the way I throw a punch, like take this! I don't know why I do it.

• If she can still do splits for her entrance:

Oh yeah! Even when I was rehabbing it I was able to do the splits. I think my biggest concern was whether I could jump into it. But the flexibility is there. It's just the concern of if I hit my knee or it's just the fear with filled in me right now. But I'm telling you today when I was in there at FCW, I felt like I'm back.

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