WWE's Bayley Addresses Finn Balor Relationship Rumours From NXT
Bayley on Finn Balor romance rumours, advice from AJ Lee, WWE, and more!
WWE's Bayley addressed rumours of an old NXT relationship with Finn Balor during a recent appearance on Renee Paquette's Oral Sessions podcast, seemingly asserting that they were not an item.
Speaking specifically on her recreation of Balor's signature ring entrance in early 2016, when Finn was sidelined with an injury, Bayley said the following (h/t for the transcription: Wrestling Inc.):-
Oh, my God! Well, we had an awesome story… it wasn’t even a storyline. We kind of made it up ourselves in NXT. He sprained his ankle, so he wasn’t having a match. Everybody thought it would be funny if I did his entrance cause my character was just so, whatever. And then they loved it so much it got so many views on YouTube, and then he did my entrance, and then they started teaming us up together on NXT shows.
On why this clicked with people:-
I think people liked it because it was such different characters. He was The Demon, and teaming us up together was insane. One time – I got in trouble with this in my past relationship – we took a picture with his parents, and people were like, ‘Oh, my God, are they really together?’ We’re obviously aren’t married. He’s married to a beautiful woman, and he seems so happy. That was so much fun. We had so much fun with each other.
The "past relationship" Bayley speaks of presumably refers to Aaron Solow, whom she had known since 2010 before calling off their engagement earlier this year. The duo are no longer together.
Bayley's Oral Sessions appearance also saw her speaking on the advice AJ Lee gave her early in her WWE run:-
I think the training and the promos always got to me. Coming home to an empty studio [apartment] and being so far away from home, I was homesick. I didn’t feel comfortable. Like, I didn’t feel cozy, and I wasn’t eating right. I was really like this isn’t wrestling. At that time, it was really hard. They were telling us to wrestle like a girl. I just didn’t understand it. I’m like, why did you hire me for my wrestling if you’re not going to us wrestle like that. It was hard to balance it. I’ve put over AJ Lee so much, but she’s the one who was like, ‘Just stick to you. Be you. As long as you stay true to who you are, you just have to be patient, kind of.’ That was maybe six months in, and I was just struggling up until then until she said it was ok for me to be myself.