Rhea Ripley is one of the most popular female professional wrestlers in the world, but with that sort of attention comes fans who often take their love of WWE Superstars way too far.
The Eradicator is someone who receives a ton of attention on social media (some flattering, some undeniably creepy). In a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Ripley detailed a real-world interaction that saw a woman show up on her door.
However, not content with tracking Ripley down and delivering some fan mail, this fan decided to creepily smile through her Ring camera!
"We looked at the Ring camera, and there's some chick at our door, and I didn't think anything of it. And I was like, Why does she keep ringing the doorbell and just stand there for eternity?" Ripley recalled. "And then we had our Australian friends who live near us, and they came to pick up our mail, and they go, 'This is for Rhea Ripley. I think it's fan mail?' I was like, 'Oh no, who the hell has my address?'"
"That's just something that people shouldn't be doing. That's kind of like crossing the line. We are normal people outside of work, and we like our privacy. We like to have our normal humanity. But I went back and I watched the Ring doorbell, and this chick was like she just came out of the movie Smile. I'm sorry if you're watching this lady, but you were terrifying. She was scary, she rang the doorbell, she got real close to it and just [smiles creepily]."
"Then she looks at her phone and she [smiles again], and she did this for so long. She was there for like 10 minutes, and then she left, came back, did it again, and then she left, and then she came back wearing something different and rang the doorbell," the former WWE Women's Champion continued. "I was just like this lady really thinks that we're home, the cars are there because we left them there. If I was home, I wouldn't know what to do. If I opened the door and she was just standing there, what could have happened?"
"She could have done anything, I don't know you; you could have attacked me, and I don't know how she got her car in the gate. We have a gated community, no one lets you in, terrifying."
Ripley added, "You have to understand that that's our work, and it's like we go home and we're different people, and what you see on TV is not what you get outside of TV. So it's like we're normal people. Please do not come up to our house. Do not stalk our property, do not threaten to kill us over a storyline on WWE. And it's craziness like that, and people need to understand boundaries sometimes."
That is some pretty strange behaviour and definitely crosses a line. Fans can meet their favourite Superstars at many events over the course of the year, so tracking them down to their homes (or even in the airport) is not cool.
You can watch the full interview with Ripley in the player below.