WWE’s Corey Graves and Carmella speak relationship, intercourse, new actuality collection

Corey Graves and Carmella are actuality present official.

The engaged WWE couple — stars of “Corey & Carmella,” a 10-episode collection airing on YouTube — talked to The Post about a variety of topics together with intercourse, relationships and professional wrestling.

Carmella, who signed with WWE in 2013, is a former world champion within the firm whereas her ex-wrestler fiance Graves — although, he’s been rumored to have been cleared to return to the ring — shifted to broadcasting and is at the moment the lead colour commentator for “Monday Night Raw.” The two started relationship in 2019 and introduced their engagement final October.

In the connection, Carmella, 34, has entered the function of stepmother to the 38-year-old Graves’ three youngsters from his earlier marriage.

“It’s such a learning process and I’m loving every minute of it,” Carmella mentioned. “It’s never anything that I imagined for myself. I never pictured myself being a stepmom or marrying someone who has children, but this is the relationship I find myself in. I’m really embracing, owning and loving it. I’m learning. There’s no rulebook.”

Carmella mentioned she talks to former “SmackDown” girls’s champion Naomi, who turned stepmom to 2 youngsters upon marrying WWE performer Jimmy Uso, when she wants some recommendation.

“I’m just kind of rolling with it,” the “Raw” performer mentioned. “I feel so lucky that I get to be a part of their lives. I said on our show that I’m not trying to be their mom or dad. They have great parents, and I’m just trying to be there for them any way they need me and be a great influence in their life.”

The relationship endured some challenges early on. News that Carmella and Graves had been collectively first broke when Graves’ soon-to-be ex-wife Amy revealed an emotional allegation that he and Carmella had been having an affair. The damning Instagram publish was deleted, and wrestling insider Ryan Satin reported the then-married couple had been within the means of divorcing for six months.

Naturally, the way in which the information emerged was a substantial problem for Carmella.

“The biggest thing that everyone knows about is how our relationship came to be and dealing with the backlash we got from that, knowing full well it wasn’t the truth,” she mentioned.

It was not like something she says she’d ever handled.

“I had to deal with such negative, hateful, terrible comments,” she instructed The Post. “Death threats. All of the things that we went through when we were first together, and just having to have blinders on and not deal with the hate and negativity — and just pushing forward. We’re still here. We’re still together, despite everyone trying to tell us we shouldn’t be. We’re still in love and we’re getting married soon.”

For his half, Graves laughed the incident off.

“I still don’t know that I was worth getting death threats over,” he mentioned. “I’m not that big of a catch.”

On “Corey & Carmella,” the couple is candid about their intimate life. They talk about having oral and standard intercourse within the bathe, for instance. They’re clearly very snug discussing private topics for public consumption.

“I’m an open book. I don’t have anything to hide,” Carmella mentioned. “I’ve always been very open about sex and our intimacy. Why is it so taboo? It’s 2022, why can’t we talk about these things? That’s why we have our podcast, ‘Bare With Us.’ We’re trying to normalize talking about sex and making it OK. It doesn’t have to be raunchy or gross or be a certain way. This is my partner. He’s about to be my husband. Why can’t we talk about it?”

That goes for utilizing their private life to probably assist others.

“If someone has an issue in the bedroom and they’re emailing us and asking for advice, I’m not saying I’m qualified for it,” she says, “but I’m gonna give you my opinion on what the issue is and how you can spice things up. Or, how you can figure out what’s happening in your relationship that might need a little help.”

Graves agreed.

“We’re just normal human beings at the end of the day,” he mentioned. “It’s just an aspect of our relationship that is a little different than most because we’re open and honest about it, but to her point, it’s 2022. Why are we still ashamed of this natural human activity? It’s part of life and relationships. It’s not all we want to talk about, but it’s part of being in a relationship.”

In the pilot episode of “Corey & Carmella,” they checked out an limitless procession of homes till they may discover one inside town of Pittsburgh that had a yard and adequate closet area. It wound up being an enormous ordeal, however they’ve since discovered their perpetually house.

“The process of shooting the show was extremely long,” Graves mentioned. “It took almost two years. With the pandemic, and getting all the business models in place, it was a really long process.”

Carmella, for one, is all about lengthy processes, particularly attaining her largest WWE targets after which some.

“For me personally it’s just about not having to fit in one box as a woman,” mentioned Carmella, who’s at the moment one half of the WWE girls’s tag staff champions with Queen Zelina. “Just because my character right now is the most beautiful woman in all of WWE, why does that have to be the only thing that I’m about? Why can’t I be beautiful and kick butt in the ring and have a reality show and a wine company and be sexy but also be a great role model? I want to break outside the box of just being one particular thing.”

Carmella mentioned she was notably happy with her first WWE feud with Nikki Bella in 2020, which felt vital despite the fact that it didn’t contain a championship belt, and didn’t get stale despite the fact that it took a little bit of time to totally unfold. Another newer on-screen feud additionally come to thoughts.

“I’m also really proud of my feud with Sasha Banks in the era of the Thunderdome,” she mentioned. “We didn’t have fans, and it was kind of my character coming back and putting a fresh coat of paint on. It was intense. I smashed bottles over her back and we did things that women don’t really get to do. We main-evented ‘Smackdown’ a few times.”

Graves hopes to be included in WWE lore for posterity.

“I pretty much just want to be remembered, hopefully in a positive manner, for being in this business that’s given me such an amazing life,” Graves mentioned. “All of my success as an adult I can chalk up to the sports entertainment industry — particularly WWE, but even before then. I’ve had so many amazing experiences and been able to travel the world. I’m not one of these guys who’s been looking to use this as a propeller to something else. If it happens, God willing, so be it. But I love the wrestling business. I’ve been a fan my entire life.”

A pair months in the past, Graves obtained in a Twitter spat with a wrestling fan who took situation with the way in which that he described Carmella as lovely, going to over-the-top lengths in doing so whereas on commentary Reflecting on this now, Graves drew the road between actual life and storyline.

“I think people take a lot of what we do as entertainers far too seriously, and they try to create issues where there aren’t any,” Graves mentioned. “We all — from Roman Reigns down to myself — are playing a role on TV. My role is Obnoxious Bad Guy Announcer. I have to wear many hats, but in the simplest terms I’m there to justify what the bad guy does.”

His shtick, after all, helps his future bride succeed as effectively.

“Oftentimes, it’s annoying by design. I do that on purpose so that people want to see the most beautiful woman in all of WWE — who is literally my future wife in the real world and my best friend — get beat up,” Graves mentioned. “Her gimmick is literally that. Somehow, me drawing attention to that, and pouring on and playing into it, is offensive to some people, and that’s crazy to me. It’s like watching cartoons and being upset. There are a lot bigger issues in the world.”