Skye Blue had a very heated exchange as a child (Picture: AEW)
As far getting excommunicated from church goes, AEW wrestler Skye Blue has a pretty solid reason.
The rising All Elite Wrestling star, who will be hoping to be involved when Tony Khan’s company – a rival to WWE – comes to Wembley Stadium for All In London this summer, isn’t welcome at her local church anymore after a fiery incident.
‘I got excommunicated from Church. I may or may not have lit a kid on fire. Sorry, guys,’ she admitted, looking back on her own younger years.
Explaining the situation, she told RJ City on the latest episode of Hey! (EW): ‘I just didn’t like him. I didn’t like a lot of people back then. My mom was in the back row watching and she was like, “Don’t do it. Don’t do it, b***h. Don’t do it”…
‘She gets very scared when I come to work. That’s why she says, “Don’t do dumb s**t.” ‘
However, the 23-year-old wrestler joked that the church made a mistake by letting her hold a candle in the first place.
Skye Blue is All Elite – but she isn’t allowed to church (Picture: AEW)
‘It was one of those weird, white, creepy looking robes, so they’re very flammable, and God knows when’s the last time they washed them,’ she recalled. ‘He dropped [to put out the fire]….
‘I laughed… They [the Church] also thought I was crazy because I had colourful hair. It wasn’t blue, though, it was pink.’
Thankfully for Skye, her mum actually sees the funny side now when they look back, and it’s actually the first thing she tells people about her daughter rather than her wrestling career.
She added: ‘No, she thinks it’s hilarious. That’s the first story she tells. She doesn’t tell people that her kid’s a wrestler, she goes, “Yeah, my kid lit someone on fire.” ‘
First appearing on YouTube show AEW Dark: Evelation in April 2021, Skye Blue went onto challenge former TBS Champion Jade Cargill for the gold in January earlier this year, before being signed to a full time deal three months later.
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