10 Things You Didn’t Know About Ashley Massaro

by Jamie Kennedy

1. Her Playboy Shoot Mishap

Ashley Massaro Playboy
Playboy Magazine

In a later 2007 interview with IGN, Ashley told a funny, light-hearted story about her Playboy shoot.

The magazine's cover showed Massaro straddling a chair and looking seductively at the camera. There was nothing seductive about what had happened a few short minutes before. According to Ash, a photographer's assistant was asked to sit on the other side of the seat and make sure it was stable.

That was fine, but Massaro went to sit down on the thing without noticing he wasn't in place. The whole chair tumbled over and Ashley landed hard on the ground. She said that WWE staffers in attendance roared with laughter, and that horrified Playboy chiefs. Wary of legal action, they repeatedly offered to take Ashley to hospital.

She was having none of it and finished the shoot as planned, albeit with a red face. When the assistant apologised profusely for what had happened, Massaro palmed it off as an accident and said she should've been the one paying more attention.

What else do you know about the late Ashely Massaro? Let us know, and leave your tributes, down in the comments section below!

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Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.