Tay Melo has posted an allegory which many believe is about her current situation in AEW.
In the Redemption media call this week, Tony Khan was asked about Melo’s situation he said the following:
“There is also a lot of inaccurate things I saw about Tay and to be honest, in this case, there was smoke to the fire but people were reporting the fire in the wrong place. So what does that really accomplish? Tay has said she wanted to step away from wrestling. She said I love AEW and I love the people here but I wanted to step away from AEW and step away from wrestling. That’s what she told me. That wasn’t in 2025. That was weeks ago at Collision after she wrestled against the Divine Dominion. She came to me after the match, and said I would like a release and I was taken aback and we had a very nice talk,” he said. “It hasn’t been a long thing and also I haven’t kept her here. Since that talk I haven’t brought her back [or] booked her and I am gonna give Tay that release.”
Bryan Alvarez of The Wrestling Observer says he was told she asked for her release some time ago and Khan denied it.
Melo has since published a video on Instagram of her standing in front of a pink tree. In it she says:
“I dreamed of having a pink tree so I ordered one. It arrived at my house in a pot. Then we placed the pot near the irrigation system and waited for the guy to come plant it.
Days went by. He didn’t show up, and my tree started dying.
One morning, I looked at it and it looked completely dead. I was so frustrated. I felt like I had wasted money, time and my dreams but then my husband said: “Why don’t we try to save it? Don’t throw it away. Let’s water it a little more.”
So every day, on top of the automatic irrigation we used the hose, giving it extra water and then, yes, it did start to show signs of life but it was not thriving. Then, I realized something: It didn’t just need more water. It needed to be planted where it was meant to grow.
So we planted it in the ground and a few days later, this is my tree: beautiful, blooming, like it’s meant to be.
You see, the tree only looked like it was dying because it was living in a place it was never meant to stay but don’t get me wrong. The pot wasn’t bad. In fact, the pot served a really important purpose. It protected the tree during the journey from the nursery to my home but the pot was never meant to be its permanent home. The ground was. Be grateful for the pot but pay attention to the ground. Have a good one.”
What could it all mean? Stay tuned.
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