Austin Aries: “I am not a sexual predator, I’m not a user, I am not an abuser”

Former WWE/Impact Wrestling star Austin Aries issued a statement on Twitter following the recent allegations made against him.

Aries says the character he plays on TV is not the same as the man he is in real life and says he is here to listen and talk. He added, “I am not a sexual predator, I’m not a user, I am not an abuser.”

Please read. Thank you. #SpeakingOut pic.twitter.com/j0XxHT1dLr

— Austin Healy Aries (@AustinAries) June 23, 2020

Aries did not address a specific allegation or the time when he put his crotch in Christy Hemme’s face on a TNA broadcast.

Here are some of the things being alleged about Aries by various people on Twitter:

Austin Aries asking me to stand in front of him and ‘dance for him’ then asking me ‘move your shorts to the side so I can see’ then telling me if I don’t dance it means I have no rhythm and I’m bad in bed.. then continued to invite me to his room 3x which I ignored.

— Hannah (@xhannahpricee) June 22, 2020

Every time I’ve met Austin Aries, he has made a comment about my boobs and hugged me too close and too long trying to feel. I’ve had multiple people message me about the awful things he has done. But he’s not a predator or anything of the sort… pic.twitter.com/YFjxiNDybO

— 🌺 Ariela Nyx 🌺 (@ArielaNyx) June 23, 2020

The tweets below were posted on June 21, 2020 from a Twitter account that is now private:

I was DMed a pretty horrific Austin Aries story and I feel like there are probably many.

Back in 2010, after a show in Manhattan, Aries and another wrestler needed a place to play for a few hours before a flight. My best friend who can confirm if she’s comfortable…

— tori. 🌸 (@slaymysterio) June 21, 2020

let them crash in her studio apartment. The agreement was boys on the floor and girls in the bed. After lights out, Aries crawled into the bed between us. At one point he put his hand on my thigh but I pushed it off.
He’s creepy, he’s been creepy, he will always be creepy.

— tori. 🌸 (@slaymysterio) June 21, 2020

Here is the TNA/Impact Wrestling clip from the incident with Christy Hemme from 2013: