AEW star Will Ospreay spoke with TV Insider about various topics, including the support he received from Alex Windsor during his recovery.
Ospreay said, “She was brilliant. You think about everything she has gone through. Two surgeries, an ACL reconstruction and a meniscus surgery. She had a career taken away from her twice, and she’s able to come back from it. She filled me up with so much confidence. How to be able to balance off your partner, making sure that we’ve got a good line of communication. It was so weird. She was coming into AEW when I was leaving to go get surgery. It was almost like my life before the surgery. I would leave my now wife and kid at home, and I would go to wrestle and then I would come back. Now the roles were reversed, and there were elements where for the first six weeks I couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t pick anything up. I couldn’t even really go for long walks. I was allowed to do 30-minute walks and stuff like that. They even said, “Don’t let him be too lazy. He does have to, like, do stuff for himself. I couldn’t pick anything up after five kilograms. She, throughout all of it, was the biggest support system. Without her, I generally think I would have crumbled. I wouldn’t have been nowhere near the level of where I’m at. She kept my focus when I was allowed to go to the gym. She picked up the pieces to allow me to go to the gym and just have an hour to myself to burn out any demons that were inside my brain. She was honestly otherworldly when it came to being such a support.”
On both of them working All In:
“My wife got to be there at the first Wembley Stadium show. If you look for it, you can see it, but there’s a clip of Mercedes Moné watching in Wembley Stadium. Al is right behind her, and people probably don’t see that at that point. Al was still on the independent scene, trying to get over to AEW or Japan or just trying to put her foot in the door. So to see where she was once upon a time, someone in the audience, to being now on the show. She has had so much adversity come her way, and the fact that she has never given up on this dream of being a wrestler. Loads of people after an ACL reconstruction. or after a meniscus tear, would just say that they are done. They are not going to do this anymore. But her ambition to keep going, and to find herself fighting for AEW gold on the same night that I’m fighting for AEW Gold as well. I think it’s very important and special to our relationship.”
On potentially working a storyline with Windsor:
“For sure, with the right storyline comes for it, for sure. We’re fine with that. People know. There’s no reason why we should try and hide the fact that we’re in a relationship and married to one another. She has been part of my schtick because she’s a huge part of my promos. Like there’s always that man with the wife that gives him a bit of a hard time, but he loves her. That’s the comedic part of our relationship that I love bleeding into my promos and into our life, because it’s just such a natural part of that authenticity that I like putting forward to people. She’s very much along the lines of she likes to do the things that are good for her career, and I like to do the things that are good for my career. Now, one of these days, there probably will be a time where we probably have to work together, and I’d love to see it. To be honest with you, I’d love to see how we gel together as an onscreen couple because I feel like we have naturally good chemistry anyway. With our humor, we bounce off one another very well, so I’d like to see what we’d be like in those situations.”
