Posted on 4/17/126 by Colin Vassallo
Becky Lynch sat down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast
Creative Studio in Hollywood, California, to discuss her
time away from wrestling and her return at WrestleMania 41,
her new theme song performed by The Wonder Years, having to
keep Seth Rollins’ fake injury a secret, fans believing that
she doesn’t put other wrestlers over, her upcoming 10th
WrestleMania match against AJ Lee, auditioning for Happy
Gilmore 2, her new coffee company, and more!
How hard was it to lie about Seth’s injury leading up to
SummerSlam?
“Not hard to the public. I mean that with love for
everybody, but that’s what we do. The job is acting. I’m
letting you in on a story, here is the story that we were
telling. To our friends and family, that was a little bit
trickier. Yeah, that was the hard part.”
So who knew?
“Roux, she knew. A few of our friends and family. I let my
mom know, she wasn’t gonna tell the dirt sheets. His mom
knew, yeah, but the worst part was I had people texting me.
Bianca was texting me. She was like, ‘I think Colby got
hurt. Do you want me to go check on him?’ I was like, ‘Ah,
no, that’s okay. I’m sure he’ll text me back whenever he is
ready.’ She was like, ‘Oh, are you sure? Oh, wait, no, I
think this might be work now, never mind. I’ll stop
asking.'”
Do you share the same disdain for AJ Lee that your husband
has for CM Punk?
“Not on that level, I just want her gone. To me, she’s like
a fly I gotta get rid of. Get out of here. Nobody wants you.
Nobody wanted you back. Be gone. You weren’t here for me
when I was wrestling, when I was coming up. So I don’t want
you now. Saying she’s proud of me. She wasn’t proud of me
when she left. She was scared of me. That’s what happened.
She was scared of me. She saw it in my eyes. She saw the
fire. She went bye-bye, so long. But then, you know, she
didn’t go ahead and say crap about me for years. It’s a
little bit different.”
Who has the home-field advantage in Las Vegas?
“Oh, that’s me. Because WrestleMania is my home. This is my
10th WrestleMania, which makes it an anniversary, which
makes it special. Started WrestleMania 32, here we are, 42.
I missed one because of the child.”
Was 32 special because it was your first one?
“Yeah. But also what that match meant. We got rid of that
stupid butterfly belt that AJ Lee is so proud of, got rid of
that crap, and we brought in the women’s title. So it was
really ushering in a new era. I know we say that a lot, but
that one really was. That was a game changer for women, the
way that they spotlighted that match, and dare I say, best
match on the card, in front of 100,000 people.”
There was this idea online that you don’t put people over.
I’d like to go through the list of all the people. Liv
Morgan, Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley, Maxxine Dupri, Zoey
Stark, Lyra Valkyria, so I don’t know where this idea comes
from.
“I don’t know. I think that’s when you’re the top of the
card, it happens to everybody. Nobody is unscathed. It was
Sami Hogan. It might still be Sami Hogan. It’s Cody Hogan,
it’s Roman Hogan, Seth Hogan, we’re all Hogan, which say
what you will about the man, one of the biggest stars to
ever exist. So, yeah, I think it becomes this thing. People
don’t understand how creative happens and if they see
somebody that is in a preferable spot for a long period of
time, they go, okay, that’s because that person is
politicking and trying to hold everybody down. So, you know,
it’s just people don’t know how it happens, and they don’t
know what goes into it, and that’s fine, you know? They’re
entitled to have their opinions. I want you to have your
opinions, go nuts with your opinions. But now I’m just gonna
do what I do, and how you feel about me is how you’re gonna
feel about me.”