Sami Zayn recently spoke with the folks from The Nation to talk about his new fundraiser, Sami Relief, where he is looking to help refugees who are trying to flee Syria and are stuck at the borders of the desert.

During the interview, Zayn spoke about his latest relief effort and how he felt like as a WWE Superstar, he needed to do more with his celebrity and public appeal.

“I think it was just the point in my life that I reached where I realized, I had to look myself in the mirror and take some accountability,” Zayn said. “I almost feel like I was more a part of a problem than a solution. It’s sort of this perpetual thing that keeps spinning, of people on one side of the fence versus people on the other side of the fence, and there’s this back and forth, dialogue and just nothing gets done. Everybody’s yelling and nobody’s actually doing anything. And I felt like I had all these opinions and I had all these good intentions, but then I really had to look myself in the mirror and say, ‘You talk a big game, but what are you actually doing?'”

Zayn continued, “I just kind of felt like a hypocrite and I realized I do have the means to help because of this platform that I’ve been afforded by being WWE Superstar or being on TV every Monday night. I realized I had a position to actually facilitate some change and I wasn’t really, while my intentions were good, I wasn’t really doing anything. I had to look myself in the mirror and confront my own hypocrisy and face that head-on, and that was really what sparked it. The intention to help people or the belief that the Syrian people suffering is awful and that I wish I could alleviate it, that’s been there for years. But then I think I just came to a point in my life where I realized, I’m not really doing anything about it and it’s time to put up or shut up. That’s what really did it.”

For more information about Sami Zayn’s Sami Relief fundraiser, visit SamiForSyria.com.

Check out the complete Sami Zayn interview at TheNation.com.