Mariah May opened up about sharing a kiss with Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door.
At Forbidden Door on June 30th, Toni Storm successfully defended the AEW Women’s Championship against Mina Shirakawa. The match was filled with drama as fans wondered who Mariah May would side with as she had deep ties with both women.
In the end, it appeared that all remained friendly as the three women shared a kiss after the bout. May and Shirakawa had shared a kiss previously on AEW television, and in a new interview with Freddie Prinze Jr. on Wrestling with Freddie, the star made it clear that no one forced the women to kiss on TV.
“It was not pitched. We just did it. Mina and I are extremely close. We’ve always been very close in Stardom. We just did it. The next time around, they were like, ‘Hey, can you guys stop kissing?’”
“It’s My Choice Who I Kiss” – Mariah May
Continuing, Mariah May explained that if she were uncomfortable with a situation, she wouldn’t take part in it.
“I think there’s a bit of an archaic view on it and people seem to think we have no autonomy over our bodies. It’s my choice who I kiss. It’s my choice what I do. If I’m not comfortable doing something, I would always say so.
I remember seeing, you know, the usual suspects, being like, ‘Oh my God. This is setting women’s wrestling back so much.’ It’s like, first of all, no one made us do it. We chose to do it. That’s just how we show affection to each other and we always have in our friendship.
Like I said, if I don’t want to do something, I won’t, but myself, Mina, and Toni are three extremely decorated women’s wrestlers who, off our own backs, have become very successful all over the world, and so to try and tell us we’re setting women’s wrestling back was pretty crazy to me. The numbers don’t lie. I think myself, Toni, and Mina got the best rated segments for about eight weeks in a row, and as we should.”
After brutally betraying her former friend, Mariah May will face off against Toni Storm for the AEW Women’s Championship at All In on August 25th.
h/t WrestlingNews.co