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>Bea first came to Japan to wrestle for Stardom in October 2017. She teamed up with Kelly Klein and immediately won the tag team league.
>"I was very nervous, but my best friend Toni Storm (currently doing great in AEW) encouraged me, so I felt a little more at ease. I knew that Stardom was a big women's wrestling organization, so I wanted to do a good job. I'm glad that the first match was a tag league match. If it had been 5STAR GP (or a singles league match), the pressure would have been tough (laughs).
>However, once I began to understand the style of Japanese female wrestlers, I realized that they were all really skilled and unique, so I worked hard to make sure I didn't look bad. And then, I was really happy when Io Shirai Io chose me for Queen's Quest (hereafter QQ) at the draft meeting. Io is one of my favorite wrestlers."
>Bee fought as a member of Queen's Quest, but in January 2020, she suddenly attacked Momo Watanabe, the leader of QQ at the time, and joined Oedo Tai (the precursor to the current HATE), turning heel. This is when she uttered the line that took the pro wrestling world by storm: "Momo, you're so mean!"
>"At first, the foreign wrestlers only knew a little Japanese... They were full of bad words like 'idiot' and 'fat' (laughs), and among them was 'shoppai'. I was thinking about what words to use to provoke Momo, so I said, 'Momo, shoppai'. Personally, I wanted to make our fight more interesting. But I do acknowledge that Momo is a good wrestler. I just wanted to shake her confidence in order to provoke her. What I really meant was, 'You're not the best, so be careful.'"
>In April 2021, Bea left Stardom and moved to WWE. After challenging Utami Hayashishita, the then World of Stardom champion, and losing, she and Momo Watanabe embraced each other in tears in the ring as they said goodbye.
