EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Ali C. Lopez Addresses Hate Comments and Her Rise to Fame

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**SPEAKER_3** (0:35)
Welcome back to The TMZ Podcast. We have a beyond special guest, Ms. Ali.
Ali Lopez. How are you? Welcome to TMZ. Welcome to The TMZ Podcast.

**Ali Lopez** (0:48)
Oh my God. This is incredible. Thank you so much for having me.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:52)
Thank you for coming in.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:53)
I'm like starstruck. I'm starstruck.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:56)
Are you kidding? When I saw your name fly in our slack, I said, excuse me, who's coming into this building?

**SPEAKER_5** (1:01)
Stop.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:01)
Yeah. So for everyone that doesn't know who you are, can you give a little intro on who you are?

**Ali Lopez** (1:05)
Yeah. My name is Ali Lopez. People know me on the internet for Gorlock or the certified baddie. And I mean, the name speaks for itself. I feel like I don't have to say much.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:16)
Listen, entrepreneur.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:18)
Entrepreneur. And you're everywhere, too. You're popping up on everyone's streams all the time.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:22)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:23)
You're always just like being thrown everywhere. Clips, everything like that. You also were in Mexico recently, right? What were you doing in Mexico?

**Ali Lopez** (1:31)
I feel like a lot of people don't know this about me, but soy mexicana. I'm Mexican.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:35)
OK.

**Ali Lopez** (1:36)
My family is from Sonora, Sinaloa.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:38)
OK.

**Ali Lopez** (1:39)
And I feel like the last couple of months I've been dipping my toes a lot as far as content goes. But the most recent thing, I'm going to be boxing. I have a boxing match with Ocho Suprema August 29th. And it's going to be a fun fight. I'm going in at the best headspace. And win or lose, I'm there for a good time.
You know the vibes.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:02)
Are people able to watch this live anywhere?

**Ali Lopez** (2:04)
Absolutely. As of right now, what I know is it's going to be streamed on YouTube live stream. I know that they were in talks of other streaming services picking it up. I just haven't heard anything yet as far as that goes.
But yeah, August 29th, live, you can also watch it in person. I think it's Xticket.mx.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:22)
Okay.

**Ali Lopez** (2:22)
Yeah. And yeah, get your ticket.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:25)
mx? Listen, the metal card.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:28)
Yes. I'm so excited for you.

**Ali Lopez** (2:29)
Get daddy's plastic and run it up.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:31)
Swiftly, too. Get the little metal cards.

**Ali Lopez** (2:34)
Yeah, absolutely.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:35)
And I want to know also just because like navigating, and I think it's just like navigating like wrestling or just like navigating even like streaming world. It's like anything entertainment, it's a very like vigorous like industry, very vigorous, like just like hearts, like audience.
And like I have like, of course, like there's always like comments coming in and stuff. Like how when you get like comments are just like negative or just anything like centric to that, like how do you kind of just not really like take them in or just kind of keep on moving? Because you're constantly posting every single day, you have something going out, and it's like very inspiring in a way.

**Ali Lopez** (3:10)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:11)
So I want to like just hear like how like you navigate that.

**Ali Lopez** (3:14)
Thank you so much. I really do my best, put my best foot forward when it comes to like being like, I don't even hate to be like, oh, yeah, like I want to inspire people and stuff like that. But because that's not what I, that's not how I, what's the word? Those are my intentions at first, you know? And then as time went on, I feel like it ended up being something that I was noticing that was happening. And as far as, and I'm very grateful for it. Oh my God, I like glitched. Oh, that's crazy. Listen.
But yeah, I'm very grateful for it. And as far as comments goes, I feel like I've gone through hell and back when it comes to my earlier teenage years, childhood, whatever, as far as it comes to like bullying, family stuff, you know, anything you can name it.
So when I see comments like this now, I'm like, you know what? Like, I really don't care. Like, I have a very good head on my shoulders. I have an amazing support system. I have a great team that I work with. I have people. I genuinely just surround myself with love and with people who are able to look, and just see me from who I am as a person, you know? And I think that's what overall helps me the most.