‘Claire Lynch’ Actress Reportedly Quit TNA Wrestling Due To Online Harassment

Posted on 08.24.12 | Category: TNA News

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.

(source: PWInsider.com)
  • 40 dawg

    She didn’t want potential employers to know how much she sucks as an actress, HORRIBLE!!!!. But it’s tna’s fault too, they only hired her to save money cuz she lived in the area, not because she was an actual good actress. Total waste, tna could of done better. And aj,kaz and daniels definately deserved better.

  • iNexus

    Wrestling fans are just so immature. They don’t have anything better to do than ruin someone’s career?

  • HBK

    Could you actually expect anything else from people who watch wrestling? these are the same people who see nothing wrong with child rapists like patterson and deny all the facts and coverup of the chris benoit murder.

  • Sulk Brogan

    Wrestling fans being classless? Surely some mistake!

  • PG Era Draws

    If this is all that creative has for AJ, then it is time for him to pack his bags…. and head over to WWE for the PG era. The PG Era Draws!

  • Kage

    Say what you want about her and the AJ storyline, but there was no reason for her to put up with that garbage.

    Idiot wrestling “fans”.

  • sin Caras Boner

    she really did suck bad