AJ Lee Says She Feared Coming Back To Spotlight And Wrestling Again
AJ Lee returned to WWE last year after staying away from the ring for 10 years.
Upon her return, Lee immediately inserted herself into a feud involving Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins. She teamed up with CM Punk against Lynch and Rollins at Wrestlepalooza. Lee last wrestled at WrestleMania 42, where she lost the Women’s Intercontinental Championship to Becky Lynch.
Speaking on State of Mind with Maurice Benard, Lee revealed her fears before last year’s wrestling return.
“A big fear was coming back to the spotlight and like wrestling again. My last year wrestling, I think we talked about this on the last podcast, there was so much happening in my life. You have all these eyeballs on you. It’s really high-stakes and high-pressure performance. My brain was at my lowest when it seemed like I was on the top of the world, I was a champion, and all this stuff.
So, taking 10 years, really taking care of myself and feeling the healthiest I’ve ever felt, then being like, ‘Okay, now go back into wrestling.’ I was really scared, like, ‘What’s that pressure going to do?’ But I felt so proud of myself for like, ‘Oh, I have the tools now.’ If I can wake up anxious, or I can be anxious behind the scenes and about to go out through the curtain. But I know how to work with it. So that was like the test was this year.”
AJ Lee isn’t expected to return to WWE anytime soon, according to Fightful Select.
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