Rhea Ripley: I Don’t Like When The Fourth Wall Is Broken And My True Character Is Defamed In Story

Rhea Ripley addresses real life elements of feud with Jade Cargill.

In March, the two got into a social media exchange where Cargill accused Ripley of always talking to creative. Ripley replied, “You’re funny… That’s funny… Now we know you really do be talking out of your ass because everything you say is bullshit. Don’t spread lies on my name you dumb B.”

Speaking to Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle on Pod Meets World, Ripley was asked if it ever feels like too much when things get that real.

“Sometimes, it’s like, you just want to make sure the other person has a little bit of a heads up. In some circumstances, there is no heads up. It definitely does make it a little bit more difficult to go out there and make magic, but we’re all professionals. Even if it does hit home, you have to just get over it. Even though it’s a weird thing to do, you kind of have to get over it,” she said.

Asked if there is a line where it can go too far, she replied, “Yeah, definitely things that are breaking the fourth wall and defaming my true character, I don’t like that stuff. I’m a pretty open book and I wear my heart on my sleeve and I try to help everyone in the women’s division. I always vouch for everyone. Anything that is breaking the fourth wall and making me seem like I’m a bad human being when I try my best to literally make everyone happy but myself, that’s stuff that I don’t like because, you obviously don’t know me. You have no reason to even be commenting on stuff like that. I don’t like that stuff. Anything else, as long as there is a conversation, I don’t care. I’ll give you ideas. ‘Hey, talk about this, I’m struggling with this right now.’ I know it’s going to bring out an emotion in me that is going to want to kill you and people are going to understand and will feel something towards that if they’re going through something like I’m going through. If you mention it and you drag it, they’re going to back me, I’m going to be a bigger babyface, and they’re going to be invested in the match. I don’t realy mind. It’s just that real side of, Demi is good person. I don’t like people ragging on Demi.”

The social media element of their feud was never referenced on television.

Ripley will challenge Cargill for the WWE Women’s Championship at WrestleMania 42.

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