Eva Marie Finally Reveals Full Truth About Viral WWE Wardrobe Malfunction

Eva Marie had a controversial segment in WWE in 2016 and recently opened up about the story behind it.

Marie was a wrestler who got negative reactions from WWE crowds. She debuted in 2013 as part ofthe E! reality show Total Divas, which looked into the personal lives of WWE Divas.

Following this, she was promoted to the main roster with only two weeks of formal training and debuted on July 1st that same year, in a backstage segment with her Total Divas co-stars.

With little wrestling skill and no real gimmick, WWE fans loved to hate her. But in 2016, Marie was presented with the idea of a new gimmick that would double down on the hate but work for her as a heel.

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In August 2016, on SmackDown, Becky Lynch awaited her opponent, Eva Marie, in the ring, and Marie would use her new gimmick. As part of the gimmick, she would make an entrance and come up with an excuse to not compete in the match.

She would suffer a planned wardrobe malfunction in the ring to make an excuse to not compete in the match with Lynch.

In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Marie reveals the story behind it. Van Vliet asks the question of the viral clip, which has 47 million views on the WWE YouTube channel.

So that whole kind of storyline was fun. There’s always going to be an excuse for me not to get in the ring. One I got stuck in traffic. The other one I hurt my knee, and then the wardrobe malfunction. I can’t remember who exactly thought of that idea, but it was pitched to me. I’m obviously easy, I’m really am, especially because I’m a bad guy as is, so I have removed really quickly being the hero or being like, the one that doesn’t look silly.

Because I think that also is a big component in going into WWE. Sometimes some superstars have a really hard time with [being the butt of the joke], or not being the man.

I kind of let that sh*t go, because it was like, it’s fine, here we are, and it worked. People really did hate me. There’s a sign, and I can’t remember what city it was, it was like, if Eva Marie’s here, we riot. Or just this crazy little section of this is Eva Marie’s section or something so obnoxious, but it was fun, because they couldn’t wait to just talk sh*t to me when I came out.

But the wardrobe one was gnarly, because it’s live television, so to make it realistic, we had to do like we did a run through with it, because the last thing that we needed me actually dropping my top. So cameramen were paranoid, freaking out, so I was securely taped, but it came off pretty good.”

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