Charlotte Flair missed the entirety of 2024 due to a knee injury she sustained in December 2023.
Flair made her return during the 2025 women’s Royal Rumble match, winning the match and punching her ticket to WrestleMania 41.
While undergoing rehabilitation, Flair discreetly initiated divorce proceedings from her partner Andrade.
During a recent interview with Sherri Shepherd, Flair was asked about how she managed the situation.
Flair said, “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.”
Flair and Andrade married in 2022 and filed for their divorce in 2024.
She continued, “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.”
Flair will challenge Tiffany Stratton for the WWE Women’s Title at WrestleMania 41.
