Lana Discusses Her Mental Health Struggles Following Her 2021 WWE Release

Lana looks back on her mental health struggles after her 2021 WWE release.

The former manager and WWE superstar worked for the company for several years during the late 2010s leading up to her release from the company in 2021. Like many former WWE superstars, her release left her with mental health issues that she struggled with for some time.

While speaking on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Lana spoke about her struggles with mental health issues following her release from WWE in 2021, which she calls how she first got triggered.

“I was really unhappy for a long time, and I think I first got triggered when I got released in 2021 from WWE. It was like my whole life. It was my dream, and I loved it. All my friends are there. You spend 300 days of the year with these women and men, and then you can’t even come backstage again. I struggle with being very ADHD and severely anxious, and it just triggered me into this manic time of my life that I didn’t understand that was an issue for me. So, actually it was Kendall Jenner on Jay Shetty’s purpose podcast that she was talking about anxiety in 2021 and I was like, wow, that’s me. I didn’t realize how much my relationships were suffering from anxiety, and my marriage was suffering from me being severely ADHD and severely anxious. I think divorce rate is 50% more in ADHD people, depression and anxiety is 50% more in ADHD people, and suicide is 50% more in ADHD people, because nothing’s good enough and you get bored and you want to move on. And so WWE was the perfect storm for me, because I was go, go, go, new city. Stimulation, stimulation, dopamine hit when you go and perform. Then when I didn’t have all that and I had to make myself happy, I was turning to all the wrong things. I was even turning to Miro too much to make me happy, and also he was turning to me to make him happy. In reality, the only person that can make us happy is ourselves, and I had to do some severe changes. In 2023 I got MRSA, remember, with my finger. It was so bad. I think a lot of it was because I was so stressed and so anxious, and it shows you that your body, stress can kill us. And so we really have to take care of our mental health and our emotional health first, because that will affect our physical health.” 

Elsewhere in another recent comment, Lana noted that Vince McMahon wanted Vladimir Putin to attend a WWE event. You can read more about that here.