Charlotte Flair returned to WWE after a lengthy hiatus earlier this year to win the Royal Rumble, but then suffered multiple setbacks. Now that she’s on the road to championship gold once again, Flair is opening up on issues in her personal life, and her recent divorce to Andrade.
The Queen tied the knot for the third time in May 2022, saying “I do!” to Andrade after dating for three years. She filed for divorce in June 2024, while recovering from a torn ACL, MCL, and meniscus suffered in December 2024. The divorce was finalized four months later. Charlotte Flair returned to win the Women’s Royal Rumble in February, but could not dethrone Tiffany Stratton at WrestleMania 41. The 14-time World Champion then failed to qualify for Money In the Bank, and failed to advance in the Queen of the Ring tournament.
Flair is hoping to become a two-time WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion at Evolution II this weekend, teaming up with Alexa Bliss. The 39-year-old grappler penned an eye-opening letter to The Player’s Tribune this week under her real name of Ashley Fliehr, titled, “How Am I Going to Be Charlotte Flair Today?” Flair revealed how she hit rock bottom in the summer of 2024 after beginning a fertility journey that February. She opened up on how the injuries, her marriage, and the fertility journey were impacting each other.
“In February, I started my fertility journey. That’s a complicated topic…… and honestly it’s a topic that society doesn’t make very easy to talk about. But I’m going to try to be open about it here, as much as I can, because it’s not something I’m ashamed of. I’m not ashamed to say that I feel the pressure of being a female athlete who has 1) a biological clock (one I’m constantly reminded of), and 2) a “happy ending” in mind that involves love, and marriage, and a family of my own. I’m also not ashamed to say I went through four rounds (five tries) of fertility last year, with no luck. And I’m not ashamed to say that that process gutted me, and spiritually exhausted me,” Flair wrote.
Charlotte Flair continued:
“I think my rock bottom moment was probably sometime last summer, when I was flying around the country for second opinions (Chicago, San Francisco, New York, I went everywhere). Around this same time, I developed tendinitis in my knee from going too hard in my rehab, which of course set my rehab back more. And then also around this same time, I went from trying to save my marriage to facing the fact that I was getting a third divorce. And it’s like each thing just fed into the other. Like: I couldn’t do jumping exercises because of my fertility … but those are exactly the exercises I needed to rehab my knee. Or: It felt like the stress from my fertility had harmed my marriage … but then it felt like the stress from my divorce was now harming my fertility. It was like for an entire year, I just couldn’t win. I was trying so damn hard, at all these things — but it’s like the harder I tried, the worse everything got,” Flair wrote.
Charlotte Flair On Why She’s Opening Up To The World
Charlotte Flair penned a letter to The Player’s Tribune today, and it quickly went viral for many reasons. The daughter of Ric Flair continued detailing her past year of trials and tribulations, and addressed her so-called “haters,” adding that the letter was for herself, and her only.
“And I’m sure some people will read this and have jokes about it and that’s fine. I know how some people see me — and I know how mean they can be about what they think they know about my life. But I’m not writing this for those people….. this isn’t for my haters. Honestly, this isn’t even for my fans. This is for myself. This is for the version of me that’s spent so much of my personal life needing to be liked, and so much of my romantic life wanting to be loved, and so much of my professional life trying to be hated…… that I think I’ve lost my own compass sometimes in the middle of all of that. So I guess I’m working on finding it again. And I think putting this out there — owning what’s happened to me — is a pretty good start,” Charlotte Flair wrote.
I put my whole heart into this. Thanks for reading. https://t.co/2bgeKsTYcB
— Charlotte Flair (@MsCharlotteWWE) July 8, 2025
Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss are currently teaming up on SmackDown. Sunday’s WWE Evolution PLE will see the duo challenge Women’s Tag Team Champions Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez, in a Fatal 4 Way that includes RAW’s Kairi Sane and Asuka plus NXT’s Sol Ruca and Zaria.