Former WWE star Eva Marie has opened up about the infamous wardrobe malfunction storyline.
Back in 2016, Eva Marie was scheduled to face Becky Lynch on an episode of WWE SmackDown. However, before the match could begin, her bikini top appeared to snap, forcing her to run backstage and leading to the match being canceled.
The segment was part of an ongoing storyline where Marie constantly found excuses to avoid wrestling. Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Eva Marie reflected on how the angle came together and how she felt about it at the time.
“So that whole kind of storyline was fun. There’s always going to be an excuse for me not to get in the ring. One I got stuck in traffic,” she said. “The other one I hurt my knee, and then the wardrobe malfunction.”
She admitted she does not remember exactly who pitched the idea, but said she was open to it.
“I’m obviously easy, I’m really am, especially because I’m a bad guy as is, so I have removed really quickly being the hero or being like, the one that doesn’t look silly. Because I think that also is a big component in going into WWE. Sometimes, some superstars have a really hard time with [being the butt of the joke], or not being the man. I kind of let that sh*t go, because it was like, it’s fine, here we are, and it worked.”
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“People really did hate me. There’s a sign, and I can’t remember what city it was, it was like, if Eva Marie’s here, we riot. Or just this crazy little section of this is Eva Marie’s section or something so obnoxious, but it was fun, because they couldn’t wait to just talk sh*t to me when I came out.”
She also explained the challenges of pulling off the wardrobe malfunction on live television. “But the wardrobe one was gnarly, because it’s live television, so to make it realistic, we had to do like we did a run through with it, because the last thing that we needed me actually dropping my top.”
“So cameramen were paranoid, freaking out, so I was securely taped, but it came off pretty good.” She said that while it looked real on TV, she was fully prepared to avoid any real mishap.
“I do, yeah. But the way that I’m holding it looks like, Oh, my God, it’s really happening, but I’m taped up. So if I literally let my hands go, it’s just flapping in the wind… It [the straps] basically just clips off and it just falls forward.”
“And how it kind of came off on TV looked great. It liked how it just really did look like this is happening, like her top is literally falling off, and Becky played off it great.” [H/T: 411mania]
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