Woman Speaks Out Against Advancements By Tom Phillips

It had been previously reported that “Smackdown Live” announcer Tom Phillips had made inappropriate comments and advances against a woman, despite the fact that he is currently engaged.

The woman, who goes by “missythetattooedgirl” on Instagram, spoke with WrestlingInc. regarding the situation.

Naturally when these situations occur, people want to know how it all began. Missy, whose real name was omitted for legal reasons, said that Phillips reached out to her via Instagram.

“We’ve been talking for a while and it started with me seeing a picture on his Instagram, and I commented on it. About an hour later he DMd me and was like ‘Hey.’ I said hi back, of course, and I thought he was just being nice. He said, ‘I saw your comment, don’t think they go unnoticed.’ And we just started talking from there about wrestling, my tattoos, my Instagram name is all over the place now so everyone is pretty aware of how tattooed I am. That kind of segued into us starting to flirt a little bit. He started to say they were attractive, the tattoos, that I was the polar opposite of what he looks like. I had asked in DM actually whether or not he was seeing anybody, if he was single, married, and he said no I am single and ‘living the dream.'”

Many have speculated that WWE would be taking actions against Phillips because of his actions. According to Missy, the company has severely restricted his social media activity, as the company was very upset that his was happening on a company phone, not his personal one.

“He tells me on Thursday that WWE came down on him about the phone, that they’re shutting down that phone, and they’re shutting down his accounts, monitoring everything, and he doesn’t think he’ll be able to speak to me anymore. He said he wanted to make this SnapChat so at least he could talk to me and the messages would disappear. He was very paranoid. He was very paranoid from the punishment from the WWE.”

The next question that would naturally be raised is how she learned of Phillips’ engagement.

“That night on SnapChat we were talking about the fact that we had made plans to meet up in Brooklyn. I’m located in Queens, New York and he’s supposed to be in Brooklyn in three weeks. So that was our plan and we were talking about it, and he was saying how he wanted it to be a date now. He said he wanted it to be like a date to see if it could be something bigger and I said ‘sure.’ My friends took a picture of the phone because we were both in shock that he decided to turn this into a date, and then I asked him very plainly, ‘Why do you not have a personal cell phone to speak to me on?’ He said he just never needed one, he’s always been about just his career. I said, ‘I don’t understand, do you not have a personal life? Do you not have anyone to go home to?’ And he kept saying no. That was why he didn’t have a phone. When I said that to my friend at the time, that’s when she found that to be a red flag. She started doing the research on Friday and found his engagement video.”