Lana Says Sonya Deville And Ruby Riott Were Also Considered For Love Confession Angle On 2019 WWE RAW
Lana says that more women were considered for the love confession angle on the final WWE RAW of 2019.
Lana says that more women were considered for the love confession angle on the final WWE RAW of 2019.
On the final WWE RAW of 2019, Lana and Bobby Lashley would have a wedding angle that would be interrupted by a confession of love by Liv Morgan for Lana. The storyline was one that was largely panned at the time, but was also credited with trying to kickstart an LGBT storyline on WWE programming.
While speaking to Ring The Belle in a new interview, Lana shared that Ruby Riott and Sonya Deville were also considered to be the talent that confessed their love for Lana before it was finally decided it would be Liv Morgan, initially noting that it was a Paul Heman idea.
“I was really excited about this. This is a Paul Heyman storyline. Yes, he was the showrunner.”
Lana continued, explaining the process of choosing who would be the one to confess their love for her.
“So it was his idea that he wanted the last interjection to it to be, you think the person’s in love with Bobby, but then they do a swerve and it’s Lana, and I love that. I had throughout my twenties and in college, I really explored my own sexuality. So I really identified with that, and so that was, I really immediately was like, yes, I love this. I didn’t know who it was going to be. They said it could be Daria (Sonya Deville). It could be Ruby (Riott) or it could be Liv. I was like, all of that’s awesome. I of course thought Daria would be amazing to be with, and then I think they chose not to go with Daria because Daria was on SmackDown in the Mandy Rose story that they were starting with Otis just starting off. So that was really the reason why they ended up not using Daria. They originally were thinking to use Daria first, but then Vince started really liking the idea of this whole storyline with Otis and then Daria and Mandy. So that’s why it then came down to Liv and Ruby and they selected Liv.”
Elsewhere in the same interview, Lana spoke about her WWE 2K19 player model. You can read more about that here.
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