This particular character came to be after a storyline began that hinted that AJ Styles having an affair with Dixie Carter. They were secretly filmed together entering a hotel elevator, which clearly means they're having sex, because everyone you've ever been in an elevator with is a sexual partner of yours. As the drama unfolded on Impact every week, Dixie's real-life husband Serg was introduced into the storyline, and he would punch AJ in the face, believing the affair rumors. AJ and Dixie finally decided to reveal the truth, telling the world that they weren't having an affair, but were meeting up with a pregnant drug addict named Claire Lynch to help her get her life together. Then the bottom fell out of the entire thing, and it turned into a "baby daddy drama", with AJ's rivals Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian accusing AJ of knocking Claire up. Each and every week, multiple segments of Impact would be dedicated to the storyline, even though it was getting zero crowd reaction. Fans could not stand the Claire Lynch character. The fact that she was supposed to be a pregnant crack whore was bad enough, but she was delivering some of the worst acting performances in the history of wrestling, which covers a lot of ground. Her performances were so bad that people were going from not caring to caring too much. She was forced to leave the company early because of constant harassment and death threats she was receiving from TNA fans, who wanted her off their television screens, after her real name was revealed online. This isn't decades ago where wrestling heels received death threats because people thought the business was real. These fans just hated the character so much that they wished death upon the woman playing her. This is another instance of fans watching TNA and having no idea why the company ever thought something like this would be a good idea. All wrestling promotions misread and misjudge their audiences, but this was a misreading of a very high degree.
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