Charlotte Flair has opened up about one of the most painful chapters of her life: the days leading up to the death of her younger brother, Reid Flair. In an emotional piece for The Players’ Tribune, Charlotte shared that while she was just starting her wrestling career in WWE’s developmental system, she chose her new path over returning home to help Reid during his struggles, a choice she has never stopped regretting.
Charlotte recalled getting a phone call from Reid, who was back home in North Carolina, asking her to come see him. He was in a dark place, battling addiction, and pleaded for his sister’s support. “I tell him I will. I will, I will!!! I WILL!!!!” she remembered. But the reality was different. “I never end up coming home. I never end up seeing Reid,” Charlotte confessed.
The reason wasn’t because she didn’t love her brother. Instead, she admitted she was too focused on her own wrestling journey at the time. “I was just so incredibly focused on NXT at that point, so driven to get better, so excited for this new beginning of mine,” she said. “I didn’t want to go back home and… I don’t even know. Ruin it, somehow? Break the spell?”
She kept putting off her visit until she tragically ran out of time. Reid passed away in 2013 at just 25 years old. Charlotte reflected on how much harder it feels to speak about his death as she grows older, realizing she is now 39 while Reid will forever be 25.
Though her career has flourished, Charlotte admitted that guilt over not being there for Reid in his final days will always haunt her, calling it a complicated part of carrying the name Flair. “I’ll always have a complicated relationship with the name ‘Flair,’” she said.
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