Ethan Page has some free advice for fans who spot him out in public — maybe just keep walking. The WWE star isn’t saying you can’t approach him, but if you interrupt his dinner and things get awkward, he wants everyone to remember who started the conversation.
Speaking on The Mask Man Show in November, Page was told that one of the most searched questions about him on Google is whether he’s actually a nice person. Instead of trying to convince everyone he’s secretly the nicest guy in WWE once the cameras stop rolling, Page wondered why anybody needs to know in the first place.
“I would like to ask everyone a question. Why does it matter?”
The interviewer had a pretty reasonable explanation: fans might run into Page somewhere and want to know whether he’s approachable. Page immediately killed that idea with two words — “I won’t” — before being asked what someone should do if they spotted him sitting at a restaurant. That’s where Page basically turned meeting Ethan Page into a game of chance. Fans can absolutely walk over if they really want to, but once they make that decision, they don’t get to decide how Page responds.
“My advice is take the chance to react to what you feel inside, and whatever action you choose, understand my reaction is only to your action.
“Now, if you choose to do one thing as opposed to another thing as opposed to another thing, how I react to that is only based on your choice.”
There is one option with a guaranteed happy ending, though — leave the man alone. Page says doing absolutely nothing comes with a 100% guarantee that everyone involved will have a fantastic time, while approaching him means putting the rest in the hands of the universe.
“If I am to be left alone and not spoken to, I guarantee you will have a great experience. Now, if you choose something else, who are you to assume you’re going to have the same thing?
“Now, you are leaving it up to the universe to decide what is to happen next. You can’t tell. I can’t tell. Who am I to guess? I’m not going to tell the future. But I know for sure, for a fact, if you don’t talk to me, it will be fantastic. It is a guarantee. It is a guarantee.”
Page isn’t completely trying to scare people away either. If getting that Ethan Page interaction is worth taking the gamble, he says go for it — just don’t get mad afterwards if he decides that whatever he was already doing was more valuable to him.
“But all things worthwhile are always a risk. And who am I to stop you from taking a risk to do something you feel is valuable to you? Do not be upset when I choose to do what is valuable to me.”
That attitude probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering Page recently got a taste of an unwanted confrontation himself. Wrestling influencer Heel Girlfriend confronted him on October 25 and bluntly asked what he was even doing there, which wasn’t exactly what Page expected after agreeing to make content with them.
“I don’t care about Ethan Page. What are you even doing here?”
Page fired back that he thought he’d been invited over for something a little friendlier than getting screamed at in front of everyone. He didn’t stick around to turn it into some massive argument either, because after explaining exactly why the situation bothered him, he decided he’d had enough.
“I’ll be honest with you. You asked me to do content. I thought you were gonna compliment me and not have your girlfriend scream at my face in front of a bunch of people trying to enjoy the pay-per-view.
“I am thoroughly embarrassed right now. I’m outta here, pal.”
Page isn’t putting up a giant “DO NOT APPROACH” sign everywhere he goes, but he’s definitely not promising the magical fan encounter somebody might have imagined in their head either. If you see him eating a burger somewhere, you’ve got two choices — leave Ethan Page alone and enjoy your evening, or roll the dice and find out what happens.
Would you take the chance and approach Ethan Page if you spotted him out in public? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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