Ash By Elegance Says She Spent Multiple Days In The ICU With Health Issues

At TNA Victory Road 2025, Ash By Elegance vacated the TNA Knockouts Championship due to undisclosed reasons, and later announced her retirement from wrestling.

Fortunately, in January, Ash announced that she had been medically cleared and able to return to the ring.

Speaking to the Generation of Wrestling podcast, Ash was asked how she was doing health-wise.

“I’m still going through it, which is crazy. You don’t have to have an injury or…what I’m going through is a health issue. A lot of people, especially my situation, I don’t look sick. I feel good today, but tomorrow might not. It’s definitely a health issue. I had mentioned, once I have a solid diagnosis…my issue is weird. They call it a medical mystery. I’ve done so many things. I spent numerous days in the ICU that nobody really knows about because I haven’t put that out there yet until I can honestly find out what this really is. We’re on a good track now. It was scary. In the beginning, what happened that forced me into retirement has trickled now into this, and it’s all adding up to being this one diagnosis. I’m just not going to say it yet until it’s out there.

“When they were like, ‘You can’t wrestle anymore,’ I was like, ‘What do I have to live for?’ This is my life and they’re telling me I can’t do something that keeps me motivated. I was not working out, and that’s my life, too. I was like, ‘I gotta do this.’ The doctors were slowly like, ‘Well, this is good, this is good. We think you’re medically good.’ I was good, I came back and I’m good to wrestle, it’s just sometimes difficult because my body kind of goes a little wonky. A couple of days before Rebellion, I have a couple more tests. Knock on wood, everything is going to be fine, but then we’ll have a solid answer of what it is.”

Ash said that when she finds out for sure what the issue is, she will continue to speak about it as she wants to help others by sharing her story.

Ash will team with H By Elegance and M By Elegance to take on Mickie James, Taryn Terrell, & ODB at TNA Rebellion. Fans can check out the lineup for the show by clicking here.

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