KiLynn King was recently interviewed by Andrew Thompson of POST Wrestling, where she spoke about the possibility of being Saraya's first opponent in AEW.
"It would be so cool [to have Sarayaâs return match]. So, this is gonna sound like such a stupid reason to love her. But I remember when she debuted in NXT, I was obsessed with how pale she was. Well, it sounds so stupid but as a woman who goes through mental abuse towards herself because of her looks and things that people always seem to think is wrong with her⌠My familyâs Irish. My dad is a Native-American, heâs Cherokee and Shawnee and my momâs side of the family, itâs like pure Irish. So I got my momâs genetics. I got my dadâs height but I got my momâs coloring. My entire life, I have been super, super pale. Nothing I have done has worked. I did tanners, works terrible, I did tanning beds. I could go to a tanning bed for two, three months and I would never get any darker. It just wasnât in my genetics. I wasnât meant to be tan. But even before wrestling, I was an entertainer. I did theater, I did dance, musical theater and I was constantly doing auditions and camps and stuff like that and the comment that I would always get was, âYou should get tanner. You should use a tanner or something because it just, you know, itâs not a good look. People look better when theyâre tanâ and I always got so frustrated with that comment because Iâm like, Iâm born the way I was born. Why the hell is being pale such a problem? But thatâs just entertainment. Theyâre always trying to nitpick the things that they think will make you look better and to me, I thought I looked fine pale so I didnât understand it."
On being a fan of Saraya:
"I remember when she debuted in NXT and I heard her story about , and I could have misheard this but from what I heard, she tried out for NXT or for WWE and she came looking completely different than she usually looks. I think they said she had a different hair color and she had put tanner on and they told her, theyâre like, âHey, we donât know whatâs going on but this isnât youâ and the next time she came back, she was herself. She had her dark hair, she was pale and then she got signed. So to me, and the fact that-that was her whole thing, like Iâm different and Iâm okay with that, Iâm a different kind of female wrestler and thatâs whatâs gonna get me over, I was so obsessed with that because that was the first time , Chynaâs the one who made me feel secure about being big, like being a big, strong girl. Paige is the one who made okay with the way I looked, like coloring-wise. I was just like, okay, I got bright ass red hair and Iâm pale as hell and thatâs okay and then also too, just tapping into being a little bit different and not being scared to do that so, when I saw her debut at AEW and the question mark was up in the air like, is she here as just a personality? Or is she here as a wrestler? I was like, Iâm not gonna waste any time and Iâm gonna tweet that and send it out because what an honor it would be to wrestle the person that made me okay with being a pale person⌠Emotionally, youâd be surprised how much that affects you so the fact that she made me okay with that, it wasnât a thing that bothered me anymore, it was a big deal to me."