Eva Marie Recalls Pitch For Wardrobe Malfunction Segment In WWE

Eva Marie had an infamous WWE segment with a “wardrobe malfunction” in 2016, and she recently recalled the pitch for the moment. The WWE alumna was involved in a storyline in 2016 where she was attempting to avoid competing in her in-ring debut and would find different ways to get out of it. One of them was a match with Becky Lynch on the August 9th, 2016 episode of Smackdown. Marie’s straps on her top came down before the match was about to begin.

For good or ill, the segment is one of Marie’s most memorable moments in her early WWE run and became a hit on YouTube. She spoke about the moment on Insight With Chris Van Vliet and recalled the whole storyline, and the pitch for the particular segment. You can see the highlights below:

On the Pitch For the Storyline:

“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 s**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.”

On Actually Having a Malfunction In the Segment:

“I do, yeah. But the way that I’m holding it looks like, Oh, my God, it’s really happening, but I’m taped up. So if I literally let my hands go, it’s just flapping in the wind… It [the straps] basically just clips off and it just falls forward. And how it kind of came off on TV looked great. It liked how it just really did look like this is happening, like her top is literally falling off, and Becky played off it great.”