Charlotte Flair opened up about her WWE comeback and her divorce from Andrade.
Back in February, news broke that Charlotte Flair and Andrade had quietly been granted a divorce in October of 2024. The two had begun dating in 2019 and were engaged in 2020 before getting married in 2022 in a ceremony in Mexico.
Speaking in a new interview with Sherri Shepherd, Flair opened up about her divorce and the knee injury that kept her out of action for over a year, getting candid about how difficult things were for her during that time. She also mentioned being compared unfavorable to her father Ric Flair.
“I didn’t. I felt like I was failing at my job. I felt like I was failing in my personal life and the embarrassment of being divorced again and being compared to my father. Let me gather myself. When I made the decision to file for divorce, the only thing I kept thinking was I just didn’t want anyone to know. ‘Oh my gosh, I have failed again.’
Then, my knee. As women, I think men too, but everyone is probably thinking, ‘She’s going to come back a year older. She’s going to come back less than. She’s coming back off this knee injury.’
Unfortunately, the WWE audience hasn’t gotten to see the come back of Charlotte Flair. This wasn’t a Charlotte Flair redemption story, but for me it’s a redemption story for me because everything I have feared or been scared of or embarrassed of, publicly, because everyone has an opinion, even though they don’t know the facts.”
“This Is My Biggest Comeback Yet” – Charlotte Flair
Continuing, Flair spoke about being able to keep her divorce a secret until her history-making Royal Rumble win in February. According to the star, this comeback is her biggest yet as she’s been facing so many personal issues behind the scenes.
“I found my worth. It’s okay to not be okay. That’s what I learned. It’s okay to take a moment, take a breather, to start over. I was able to keep the divorce a secret until I came back, won the Royal Rumble, and then I was on Monday Night Raw, ‘Hearing from Charlotte Flair after her Rumble win and epic return.’
Boom. Everything hits. Everything that I had been scared of hit that day. The fight is over. I have nothing to fight. This is me, this is who I am, I’m standing in my worth. People can have their opinions. To the audience who watches wrestling, they don’t know what Charlotte has been through to get to where she is, but I know. For Ashley, this is my biggest comeback yet.”
h/t Fightful