During an interview with Sherri Shepherd, Charlotte Flair publicly talked about getting divorced from fellow WWE SmackDown Superstar Andrade.
When asked how did she handle dealing with her major knee injury and divorce at the same time, the 2025 Women’s Royal Rumble winner replied:
“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 then being compared to my father…
When I made the decision to file for divorce, the only thing that I kept thinking was like I just didn’t want anyone to know, right? Like, oh my gosh, I have failed again and then my knee…
As women, I think men too, but it’s like everyone’s probably thinking, well, 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 and unfortunately the WWE audience hasn’t gotten to see ‘The Comeback of Charlotte Flair.’
This wasn’t a Charlotte Flair redemption story, but for me it’s a redemption story because everything that I have feared or been scared of or embarrassed of publicly because you know, everyone has an opinion, even though they don’t know the facts.”
Charlotte said she tried to keep her divorce a secret, but the news got out anyway:
“It’s okay not to 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, like hearing from Charlotte Flair after her Rumble win, epic return and then boom – everything hits. The media and I was everything that I had been scared of hit that day, and I was like the fight’s over.
I have nothing to fight. This is me. This is who I am. I’m standing in my worth and people can have their opinions and I think to the audience who watches wrestling, they don’t know what Charlotte has been through to get to where she is, but I know.
So for Ashley, this is my biggest comeback yet.”
Charlotte got emotional while talking about this. You can watch it below:
Charlotte Flair will challenge Tiffany Stratton for the WWE Women’s Championship on Night 1 of WrestleMania 41 on April 19th.
