Professional wrestler, Kevin Owens, recently expressed his concern over fans waiting for autographs at airports. He strongly urged fans not to continue this practice.
Owens made these comments during his recent participation on the podcast “Insight with Chris Van Vliet,” expressing his discomfort and the feeling of invasion he experiences when fans gather at airports, eagerly awaiting autographs.
He said,
“There’s one that I wrote that I don’t think anybody has found yet. It says ‘Don’t follow us at the airport.’ And that’s one that people should take to heart. We love our fans, we really do. What I do now at airports is, I come and when they’re all waiting for their autographs, I just go, ‘I don’t sign at the airport, but I’ll gladly take a picture with you.’ And when I say that, 20 of them turn around. They’re there to sell it on eBay. I don’t really have a problem with that. I just got to the airport. I’m either tired, or I’ve got to go to work. Like, when we get to an airport and its five or six people, okay. But nowadays, we get there; 40, 50 people. Like, they get around. You can’t even move. It’s very overwhelming for me. And I’ve seen it done to the girls. Some girls have told me, like, it gets almost scary.”
Owens continued to say, “They’re not trying to crowd somebody and make them feel, like, ‘Hey, this is too much.’ But when there’s 40 of you, that’s what happens. So what I suggest is just don’t come to the airport.”
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