– AEW star Willow Nightingale spoke to Close Up with Renee Paquette ahead of AEW All In about her upcoming fight with Kris Statlander. Here are some highlights (via Fightful):

On the duel against Kris Statlander: “It’s pretty bittersweet because the biggest moments of my career, you always think, ‘Oh, we’re going to be in front of this crazy crowd in this historic, huge building,’ and you think you’re going to do it with your boyfriend. Sure, I imagined sharing big, special moments with Stat, but not in this way. So it’s a little confusing. It’s also… she must have been aware that these weird feelings that she was triggering were coming up inside her, and in her head, she was just kind of fooling me. I don’t really know what happened, but it hurts. I’m a very kind, loving, bubbly person, and I think that’s what people connect with me.”

On dealing with her aggression during her matches at All In and All Out: “I also fundamentally believe that violence and aggression is one of our first languages ​​and a very useful way of expressing ourselves. So I get to live out that duality. I get to shape my personality around how I feel most of the time and how I want to interact with people. But sometimes it doesn’t work out that way and I have to find a way to deal with those less pleasant feelings in this job. I guess I can wrestle with it in some ways because that’s a way for me to process it, but I don’t know. I don’t know if I’ve ever been betrayed like that by a boyfriend before in my life. So we’ll see. We’ll see what happens.”

Willow Nightingale will team with Tomohiro Ishii to face Kris Statlander and Stokely Hathaway at AEW All In: London 2024 this weekend at Wembley Stadium in London. The event will take place on Sunday, August 25th and will be broadcast live on pay-per-view. Nightingale will then face Statlander in a singles match at AEW All Out 2024, which will take place on Saturday, September 7th at the Now Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The show will also be broadcast live on pay-per-view.