Royce was a guest on
Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Royce described how she put the bug in Vince McMahon's ear that she'd like to try a singles run in WWE. She said she wanted to be able to take that item off her list in the wrestling industry and even told her partner Billie Kay. Still, she goes, "I didn’t go and try and get us broken up or something like that."
Royce said that she was wrestling a random singles match years back in the Performance Center while Kay was out for a week and Vince saw the match and said, ‘You’re so good!’ Like, what are we doing?' It was then she told him if an opportunity ever came up to give her a run as a singles talent, she'd like to try.
She said that she felt she and Billie had a lot left to give and that they could "conquer the world together, but I wanted to see what I could do for myself." It's likely from that point on that Vince was looking for an opportunity to give her a shot.