On February 15, WWE superstar Sonya Deville proposed to her girlfriend Toni Cassano at a New Jersey wine cellar cave. Immediately after Cassano accepted her proposal, she presented Sonya with an engagement ring of her own and revealed that she had been holding onto it in her purse for the last 4 months, waiting for the day Sonya would pop the question.
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Sonya Deville Discusses Her Engagement, Being LGBTQ WWE Superstar
In an interview with People, Sonya Deville (real name Daira Berenato) discussed her relationship with and recent proposal to her girlfriend Toni Cassano:
I could go on for days about the way I feel about this woman, I never knew love could feel so happy and safe all at the same time. I found my best friend, my soul mate and my life partner all in one incredible human. She is the epitome of my ride or die. To be able to show her and her two daughters how much they all mean to me was what this proposal was all about. They are my world and now we are one family forever together.
Sonya went on to discuss her experience as an LGBTQ wrestler. She reflected on how much has changed over the course of her WWE career regarding her relationship with her own identity:
It's so cool to me to be in this position right now, to be engaged as a gay female in the WWE, and to have proposed to my fiancée. Because I look back at seven years ago, eight years ago when I wasn't even openly out yet, and I was hiding relationships, and I was still trying to figure out my comfortability with being gay and who I was.
Sonya added that she hopes to show her fans that they are "loved and special," and that "they can have all the same moments that anybody else can.
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