AEW star and current CMLL World Women’s Champion Willow Nightingale appeared on Close Up With Renee Paquette to talk about a number of topics, including her upcoming match at All In with Kris Statlander.
Nightingale said, “It’s pretty bittersweet because you always think the biggest moments of my career, ‘Oh, we’re gonna be in front of this crazy crowd in this historic, giant building,’ and you think you’re gonna do it with your friend. Sure, I was envisioning sharing big, special moments with Stat, but not this way. So it is a little disorienting. It’s also…she must have been aware that she had whatever these weird feelings were stirring up, and in her head, she just kind of was playing me along. I don’t really know what happened, but it hurts. I’m a very kind, loving person, and bubbly, and I think that’s what people connect to me for.”
How she will work through it with her matches at All In and All Out:
“I also, at my core, think that violence and aggression is one of our first languages, and it’s a very useful way to express yourself. So I get to live that duality. I can have my personality be how I feel most of the time, how I want to interact with people. But sometimes, that’s not how it goes, and I, in this job, get to find a way to deal with those less-than-savory feelings. I guess I’m in a way that I get to wrestle her because it’s one way for me to work through this, but I don’t know. I don’t know that I have been betrayed by a friend like this ever before in my life. So we’ll see. We’ll see what happens.”
You can check out Nightingale’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
