Saraya says she declined a romance angle in AEW.

On a recent episode of her Rulebreakers podcast, Saraya opened up about a storyline she turned down during her time in AEW. The angle would’ve paired her up in an on-screen romance with “Daddy Magic” Matt Menard, but she ultimately said no.

At the time, Saraya was in a relationship with Falling in Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke, and she explained that she didn’t feel comfortable doing a kissing scene while in a committed relationship—even if it was just for TV.

“Daddy Magic, they wanted me to do a love story line with him, and I’ve managed to go on my whole career without doing a love storyline, and I wasn’t gonna start,” Saraya said. “They were like, ‘No, all he’s gonna do is kiss you.’ I had a boyfriend at the time, and I was just like, ‘I can’t do it, you guys. I just can’t do it.’ So I turned down that. There’s not really anything storyline-wise else I’ve turned down. It’s just like, if I have to kiss someone and I have a boyfriend, I just don’t think it’s appropriate.”

She also pointed out that this kind of pitch hadn’t really come up during her earlier wrestling career, but it did once she joined AEW.

“I’ve never really had like them come up to me and be like, ‘What do you think of this? You want to kiss somebody today?’ I’ve never had that until I got to AEW. Then they were like, ‘Can you kiss Daddy Magic?’ I love Daddy Magic, good guy, but I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t do it.”

Interestingly, while Saraya turned down the angle, a different love story on AEW TV actually blossomed into something real. Her former stablemate Ruby Soho and Daddy Magic’s tag partner, Cool Hand Ang, were paired together on-screen—and they eventually tied the knot in real life and are now parents.

(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)