Over the last few years, Rhea Ripley has developed into a massively popular WWE superstar. While Ripley has likely enjoyed the benefits that have come along with her increased fame and notoriety, there's also a downside to being adored by millions of fans all over the world.
During a recent appearance on the ''Insight with Chris Van Vliet" podcast, Ripley was asked about her post on X from back in February, imploring fans not to send mail directly to her home address. In reply, she shared that one fan actually did something much more problematic than sending mail to her private address.
"So it wasn't sending stuff. Someone actually came to my house.
It was last Valentine's Day, this year, and [my husband and I] had left for Australia because we had obviously his [AEW] show, and then we were gonna continue with our honeymoon afterwards.
...We had left to do all that, and 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 then like just standing there for eternity?'
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.'
And 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 crossing the line. We are normal people outside of work in WWE. 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'. She was, I'm sorry if you're watching this lady, but you were terrifying. She was scary. She rang the doorbell and she got real close to it and she just [creepily smiled]."
WWE star Rhea Ripley thankful she wasn't home when stranger showed up in February
This fan showing up at Ripley's home earlier this year was absolutely not okay, and she went on to say how things could have been even worse if she were actually home when the fan made an uninvited visit.
"She was there for like 10 minutes, and then she left, came back, did it again. Then she left, and then she came back wearing something different and rang the doorbell.
I was just like, 'This lady really thinks that we're home.' The cars [were] there 'cause we left them there. But if I was home, I wouldn't know what to do. Like 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."
Unfortunately, Ripley is not the only female WWE superstar to experience something like this in the recent past.
Earlier this month, someone was arrested outside of the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, for allegedly stalking WWE superstar Liv Morgan.
A few weeks ago, WWE star Roxanne Perez also needed to have an increased security presence around her after she was a victim of doxxing and death threats from an online stalker, according to a report from Fightful Select.
It's safe to say these female WWE superstars love their fans, but there is a line that definitely cannot be crossed. Thankfully, Ripley wasn't home when the crazed fan showed up on her front steps in February, and an even bigger problem was able to be avoided.