Fans scare off Claire

[Farooq]

TNA Wrestling concluded the Claire Lynch storyline last night on Impact Wrestling with her legal representative revealing that she never was pregnant and had agreed to blackmail AJ Styles after being approached by Daniels and Kazarian—she drugged Styles and took scandalous photos suggesting he was the father of her fake baby. Lynch did not appear during the segment since she quit the promotion.

Multiple TNA sources have confirmed that Lynch, whose real name is Julia Reilly, immediately quit the company after her identity was discovered online and wrestling fans began bombarding her professional website, YouTube and LinkedIn accounts with “derogatory and hateful messages about her acting, her character’s actions and her character’s appearance.”

As a working actor, Reilly didn’t want potential employers and casting directors researching her to come across the hateful scorn, which was described as “some of the most classless garbage you’d expect to see, just low rent message board loser stuff.” As a result, she quit TNA and immediately closed her professional accounts in an attempt to deflect the vitriol.

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[Dolph'sZiggler]

Owned

 

[CM Punk]

It's her fault for being such a terrible actress.

 

[Snowman1]

Damn. That's... something.

Hey Bischoff, next time you try to talk down to the IWC, saying their voice doesn't matter... here's our proof.

 

[William]

Let's spam her websites and everything when she puts them back up!

 

[Matt]

Let's spam her websites and everything when she puts them back up!

That would be very disrespectful.. this is someone's life and career you would be messing up.

 

[Brother Loathe]

:awyeah: Anybody have a link to her youtube channel?

 

[Leo C]

1: Gotta love the IWC.

 

[Wacokid27]

Dude. Seriously, that's not cool. Even experienced actors talk about how hard it is to perform live and it's got to be difficult to perform for an audience as demanding as wrestling fans (where else can two guys go out, work their asses off for 20 - 30 minutes, bleed, sweat, and hurt themselves, and still get talked bad about because the "work rate wasn't high enough" or "XXXXX is just a jobber" or "XXXXX just sucks to me in my humble opinion")?

This is an example of a bunch of kayfabe-believing idiots going out and doing their best to actually damage somebody's life and career. We shouldn't celebrate this. It's horrific. This woman, whatever one might individually think about her performance, character, etc., is somebody who's trying to live her life as a performer who got hired for an acting job. She wasn't asked to wrestle. She didn't work for 20 years in the indies to get to TNA. She's just an actress trying to make a living. This is the reason why a lot of people who love wrestling won't talk about it. They don't want to get lumped in with the scum who do things like this to an honest, hard-working actress.

wk

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Dude. Seriously, that's not cool. Even experienced actors talk about how hard it is to perform live and it's got to be difficult to perform for an audience as demanding as wrestling fans (where else can two guys go out, work their asses off for 20 - 30 minutes, bleed, sweat, and hurt themselves, and still get talked bad about because the "work rate wasn't high enough" or "XXXXX is just a jobber" or "XXXXX just sucks to me in my humble opinion")?

This is an example of a bunch of kayfabe-believing idiots going out and doing their best to actually damage somebody's life and career. We shouldn't celebrate this. It's horrific. This woman, whatever one might individually think about her performance, character, etc., is somebody who's trying to live her life as a performer who got hired for an acting job. She wasn't asked to wrestle. She didn't work for 20 years in the indies to get to TNA. She's just an actress trying to make a living. This is the reason why a lot of people who love wrestling won't talk about it. They don't want to get lumped in with the scum who do things like this to an honest, hard-working actress.

wk

Boo this man

 

[Crayo]

Dude. Seriously, that's not cool. Even experienced actors talk about how hard it is to perform live and it's got to be difficult to perform for an audience as demanding as wrestling fans (where else can two guys go out, work their asses off for 20 - 30 minutes, bleed, sweat, and hurt themselves, and still get talked bad about because the "work rate wasn't high enough" or "XXXXX is just a jobber" or "XXXXX just sucks to me in my humble opinion")?

This is an example of a bunch of kayfabe-believing idiots going out and doing their best to actually damage somebody's life and career. We shouldn't celebrate this. It's horrific. This woman, whatever one might individually think about her performance, character, etc., is somebody who's trying to live her life as a performer who got hired for an acting job. She wasn't asked to wrestle. She didn't work for 20 years in the indies to get to TNA. She's just an actress trying to make a living. This is the reason why a lot of people who love wrestling won't talk about it. They don't want to get lumped in with the scum who do things like this to an honest, hard-working actress.

wk

Amazing post. This was an awful storyline and she played her part just as awfully, but there's no need for this at all from the TNA marks.

 

[Rysenberg]

Boo this man

Admittedly, I did lol.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Amazing post. This was an awful storyline and she played her part just as awfully, but there's no need for this at all from the TNA marks.

Meh. If you choose to go down the path of being an actor or actress you should know it comes with the territory. It's obviously a job where you are going to be in the public eye and when it comes to film or television everyone is a critic so if they think you suck expect to find out. If I sucked at acting and got a major role on a show that millions of people watched each week I would expect to receive backlash from the fans.

It's like being a professional athlete. Are they unfairly scrutinized, to a much further degree than other professionals? Of course they are, but that's the career path that they have chosen. Nobody forces them to do what they do, and nobody forced Claire Lynch (cba to remember her real name) to become an actress. If she wants to live a chill life and not be in the public eye she can get a desk job and work 9-5 like the rest of us. Maybe if she wasn't so completely God awful at what she does there wouldn't have been such a need for the over the top fans to go as far as they did (I'm not even sure what they did.. from what little I've gathered they just seemed to be telling her she was shitty at acting, which is obviously true. I've heard nothing of threats of violence or anything like that. They basically just exposed her identity and then spammed her website. Big deal)

So yea, I don't feel bad for her at all. She chose this life and can't have it both ways. I'm sure she would have been flattered if her pages were being filled with love and telling her how great she was as Claire Lynch.. so if she would welcome the praise she needs to welcome the criticism as well. I think she was just butt hurt about people figuring out who she was and she was probably a bit embarrassed about being linked professionally to this train wreck of a storyline.

[screeches]THIS IS YOUR BABY AJ[/screeches]

f that dumb bitch

 

[Crayo]

I don't care about them receiving hate, look at the WWE celebrity ambassadors recently, they're getting tore apart on twitter and whenever a celeb appears now they're boo'd. Rightly so, we want wrestling. But to actually bomb their PERSONAL life outside of wrestling with hateful messages and sometimes stupid things like death threats is just too far. If you were them and offered $xxxx to appear and do a bit of acting/promoting, would you turn it down?

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Of course I wouldn't turn it down, but if I sucked dick at it I wouldn't take my ball and go home when fans told me I sucked at it.