No day at the beach for Keibler

By Seth Mates - WCW.com

Stacy Keibler wants to set the record straight."I had these plans for a while with a bunch of people to go down to the beach last week," Keibler told WCW.com. "I got the sheet last Tuesday afternoon that I had to work the house shows, and I was supposed to leave the next day to meet my friends. I was thinking, 'Oh my God -- what do I do?' They didn't think we were going to be on house shows at this point. So I talked to J.R., and told him about my prior plans, and he said it was OK, because they were going to announce the Bra and Panties match the following week, and that way we can put you on the house shows the following weekend so you girls can work together. And I said, 'That's great -- you can put me on every house show for the rest of the year if you want to!'"

After returning from her vacation, however, Keibler was shocked to find out that various Internet sites were reporting that she had heat with management, for allegedly no-showing live events in North Charleston, S.C., and Augusta, Ga."I come to the arena last Monday and I say hi to everyone, and everyone's not like 'Hi Stacy, how are you?' -- it's more like, 'Hey,' and then they'd just walk by," Keibler said. "I'm like, 'What's going on here?' So I go to get something to eat, and one of the wrestlers is like, 'How was the beach?' And I'm like, 'Oh, it was good.' And I go in the hallway and one of the guys grabs me and says, 'Stacy, don't worry about that Internet stuff. The office usually just laughs it off anyway.' I was like, 'Oh my God, am I in trouble?' And he's like, 'No, you're not in trouble.' And then I started thinking, how did everyone know I went to the beach?"The Internet rumors ran so rampant that Jim Ross even addressed them in last Friday's Ross Report on WWF.com. But Keibler says that Federation officials - including J.R. - have yet to even mention the incident to her, and that it has been business as usual around the backstage area.

Keibler said that she did get some heat in the locker room from her fellow competitors, but she thinks it was more of a precautionary measure."I think in a roundabout way, people were teaching me a lesson," she said. "I think it's just that the wrestlers -- not that they were mad, but they wanted me to know that this isn't the way you should be handling things like this."I just want to publicly say that I apologize, because I know that people work their asses off to get here, and I did have an easy way in. But I know that they give up their family and everything for this, and I'm very sorry, because I do appreciate the opportunity that I have, and I don't want anybody to think that I think I can just take off whenever I want. "

With the incident behind her, Keibler is now focused on getting set for her Bra and Panties tag match at Invasion, where she will team with Torrie Wilson against Lita and Trish Stratus."I definitely feel inexperienced in the ring," she said. "I would say I have no experience whatsoever. But now I have people teaching me the right way to do things. I feel that I'm learning quicker and better because I have awesome teachers.After working with Lita, Trish and Torrie at Federation live events over the weekend, Keibler says she feels set for this Sunday's Pay-Per-View."I'm nervous in that I just want to do everything right; I want everything to be perfect," Keibler said. "Having the experience of getting at them at house shows and really working with the girls, and just being able to have a match with Trish and Lita at the house shows made me a lot more comfortable. They're great girls to work with. I've never felt more comfortable in the ring with anyone."Indeed, the Bra and Panties match looks to be one of the highlights of the Invasion show, and Keibler says she is psyched.Because facing Lita and Trish -- well, that's no day at the beach.

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