AJ Lee once tried to kill herself after quitting WWE. Here’s how everything panned out for the better.
AJ Lee recently returned to WWE on last week’s episode of SmackDown and has now teamed up with her husband, CM Punk. The star came out to a massive ovation and cheers as the fanbase revelled in the return of one of the most beloved stars. Lee is not just a talented wrestler but also a pioneer in the industry. AJ Lee was a trailblazer as far as women’s wrestling in WWE was concerned and became the face of the women’s revolution in the company.
However, it has not all been smooth sailing for the former Divas Champion. AJ Lee, who is an advocate for mental health, suffers from Bipolar Disorder, and it almost cost her her life once. The incident happened right after she quit WWE in solidarity with her husband, CM Punk, being released from the company. The star detailed the story during an interview later in her life.
AJ Lee Revealed How A 311 Call Saved Her Life
During an interview, AJ Lee revealed how she had booked a hotel room to attempt suicide but had second thoughts later on. She did not want Punk to find out and had only gotten the room away from her area. However, before AJ Lee could go through with her plans, the WWE star made a call to the suicide prevention helpline, which ultimately saved her life.
The interview was on the State Of The Mind with Maurice Benard YouTube channel, where the recently returned AJ Lee detailed her story.
I was on TV, and I’m a champion, like, and I, you know, dream career got married, like, perfect, wonderful year. But a lot of times with bipolar disorder, big life changes kind of throw you off. And you with the high, you’re gonna hit a low. And so in the same year of my life, I moved to a different state. I got married, I got really sick. And I had to take time off work for surgeries. Actually, during one of the breaks I had, you know how this is because General Hospital has no time off. In wrestling, there is no offseason, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. So the only time I ever got time off was for surgery. And so my husband was like, let’s just sneak a wedding in here. And that’s how we got married. So everything’s happening really fast, and it’s just like a chaos and a tornado of highs and lows in life. But I was really sick and I was scared that I had to have multiple surgeries, and so all this stuff is happening and then I got hurt in the ring and then my husband got sued and it was just all of a sudden that I you know, there was stuff in my family and so it’s all this stuff happening in the same year. And so careers like great and everything’s going great and I have my husband, but my bipolar disorder couldn’t handle it. It was too much for me. I wasn’t taking care of myself the way I should have been. I wasn’t in therapy consistently. I was playing fast and loose with my medication. Because I was being really vain about it because I gain weight when I’m on my medication, and so I was, you know,”
And so I, at some point, realized, okay, this isn’t my brain, it’s the darkness talking and I called the suicide prevention hotline. And the tricky thing about that is my phone number was out of the area code. And you have to, they have to route your number by area code, so they can send emergency services if they need to. And so once they found out I wasn’t where my area code was, they were like, you have to call this number, this is like your local one, you have to do this, please promise you really call this number, write this number down. I was like, yeah yeah yeah, I didn’t write it down, just hung up. And I was like, That’s the sign I’m supposed to do this. So I went back to it, and then something else was like, No, No, try again. Try again. And I was like, I don’t have the number. I don’t have the number. Maybe I should call 311 and ask them for the number. So I call – first of all, only I would have the hilarious suicide attempt, like where it just goes wrong and somebody is like, when you have the wrong number when you call the suicide prevention hotline. Only me, but so like, okay, 311 might help me get the right number, and the man on the other end of the phone, this man was so patient and so kind. And I don’t even understand what happened. But I just started telling him everything. This kind stranger who gets noise complaints, this is not his job.
And I didn’t realize that it was the first time in a long, long time someone had shown me kindness, and was just like, Oh, that sucks. Like, for so long people just thought I was like on the top of world and I’m the caretaker in my family I was providing for everybody, but there wasn’t anybody checking in on me and so it’s just I didn’t realize I just needed somebody to check in on me and it was this tiny, small act of kindness that literally saved my life. Like, I don’t know his name, I just remember his voice. I can hear his voice right now. It was just kind and patient, and he just listened, and that was enough for me to go, Okay, I need to go home, like this is terrifying. And so I just thought like, I could handle it on my own, and so what I realized from that was that I needed to talk about my diagnosis because a huge problem was that I was hiding it. Like the world didn’t know at the time that I was bipolar, and I never talked to any mental health [professional],” AJ Lee said.
AJ lee really saying she was dealing with a lot of depression shortly after she quit wwe and had to book a hotel room to ki$$ herself and the only thing that saved her was the kind words of the person behind the 311 call she made that night. 😭 https://t.co/jom7XjW7Lapic.twitter.com/c03fr80cVJ
— Faith⚠️💞 (@usos_cautionary) September 12, 2025
AJ Lee is set to team up with CM Punk at WWE Wrestlepalooza to battle Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch. All four stars have been at loggerheads with The Man getting mauled by AJ Lee. The WWE star will once again be in the ring after 10 years. However, in a disappointing update, AJ Lee will not be main eventing her first WWE PLE in 10 years.