‘Masked Singer’s Axolotl Revealed As WWE’s Alexa Bliss: How Her Husband ‘Helped’ Her Face Her Fear (Exclusive)

Axolotl was conscionable astir the cutest Masked Singer costume we’ve ever seen connected the show. WWE prima Alexa Bliss was revealed arsenic the adorable amphibian aft her show of LeAnn Rimes’ “Can’t Fight The Moonlight” successful the March 22 episode. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Alexa astir however she conquered her “fear of singing” with The Masked Singer.

Alexa Bliss arsenic the Axolotl. (FOX)

“I’ve had friends bash The Masked Singer. I watched The Masked Singer and thought it would conscionable beryllium thing that would beryllium truthful fun,” Alexa said astir wherefore she decided to bash the show. “I truly conscionable wanted to look my fearfulness of singing. I had a karaoke concern hap years agone that traumatized me. It’s truthful small, but it traumatized maine from singing for years, particularly successful beforehand of people. I conscionable wanted to yet look that fearfulness and yet amusement myself that I could get implicit that fearfulness due to the fact that it was specified an anxiousness trigger for me, but I did it and it was fun. I conscionable wanted to spell and person amusive with it. It was the champion experience.”

Alexa said it helped that she had a “5-foot headpiece” connected her arsenic she performed. “My husband [Ryan Cabrera] helped maine a batch to benignant of get implicit that fearfulness successful that consciousness due to the fact that helium told maine close earlier we went retired arsenic I was starting to panic a small bit,” Alexa revealed. “He was like, ‘Hey, you’ve already faced your fear. You sang for these radical already during rehearsal. You’ve done it. You’ve sung successful beforehand of people. It’s good due to the fact that this is the amusive part. This is the clip for you to person fun.’ It was truly large having him determination to assistance maine with that.”

Despite having a monolithic headpiece to transportation during her performance, the 31-year-old admitted that it was much “difficult to execute with the tail. I was acrophobic that I was going to whip idiosyncratic with my process and sound myself implicit oregon something. It wasn’t the caput that was difficult. Actually, nary of it was difficult. I was much acrophobic astir my process than my caput due to the fact that it truly wasn’t heavy. The squad created this awesome, intricate interior harness that took each the value disconnected my caput and disconnected my back. All the value was successful my hips, and past my shoulders.”

The Axolotl costume was decidedly 1 of the much unsocial masks to grace the stage. Alexa told HollywoodLife that she lone knew what an axolotl was due to the fact that of the viral TikTok inclination of “people utilizing sharpies to gully astir their axolotl successful the vessel and singing the 2nd Secondhand Serenade song. I didn’t cognize it was regenerative, and I didn’t cognize however conscionable similar awesome they are. I conscionable knew that 1 TikTok.”

Alexa Bliss with hubby Ryan Cabrera. (Gregory Pace/Shutterstock)

When she learned however the axolotl tin regenerate itself, Alexa saw a batch of herself successful the resilient amphibian. “For me, it benignant of reminds maine of my WWE character,” she told HollywoodLife. “I’ve had to reinvent myself truthful galore times for my ain idiosyncratic self. I don’t similar being the aforesaid quality implicit and implicit again, truthful being capable to ever accommodate and germinate and determination guardant is benignant of however I subordinate to the Axolotl. Plus, my hubby said that I benignant of looked similar it.”

Alexa noted that she’s go a “more well-rounded person” due to the fact that of The Masked Singer. “I cognize I tin look my fears, and I cognize that I tin bash things that I ne'er thought I could before,” she said. “And present I americium much comfy doing that. There person been times erstwhile Ryan volition conscionable propulsion retired the guitar, and we’ll some sing a opus unneurotic conscionable for fun. I would person ne'er done that successful a cardinal years. I would person ne'er adjacent sang successful beforehand of my hubby if it wasn’t for Masked Singer.” New episodes of The Masked Singer play 9 aerial Wednesdays connected FOX.

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