Ash by Elegance Shares That She Received Death Threats While Sidelined From In-Ring Action

Ash by Elegance is back in the fold.

Ash by Elegance declared herself retired after relinquishing the TNA Knockouts World Championship and stepping away from in-ring competition in September 2025.

During the second episode of TNA Thursday Night iMPACT, Ash got physical on the program and revealed that she is medically cleared to compete.

Ash was interviewed by Denise Salcedo and stated that the reason she had to step away is personal, and she’ll speak about it when she’s ready. She added that while she was inactive, she received death threats.

“To be honest with you, it’s personal, and when I feel like I’m ready to share, I will share. I’ve always been transparent about my whole life but this is something that was very personal to me. It did result in retiring or vacating the title, and I just feel as though people like to butt into business where it may not be their business. When I say personal is personal, again, I will share when the time is right for me. But just know and I hope people respect that. It’s been difficult, I must say, reading comments online. Majority has been super supportive, which I appreciate but, on the other side, people have been very negative. I have gotten, unfortunately, death threats and it’s scary at times because people don’t know what goes on behind closed doors and if you know me, you know how hard I work and you know how passionate I am about wrestling. So, all I wanted to do was continue wrestling and I turned a negative, again, into a positive. I was very blessed to do a documentary called ‘Immersed’ and while everything was the high of highs, the lows came crashing down while filming that documentary so it captured some very vulnerable moments in my career that were all real, and everything that I do, I say is true and when the timing is right, I will come out and I will share everything that has happened to me within the past couple of months. It’s just I have to be mentally okay to share that.”

Ash went on to state that she did not think she would be able to return to in-ring action in general, let alone come back as quickly as she has.

“I definitely didn’t think I was going to return, especially this quick. When everything had transpired, I kind of had to mentally soul-search, and I was really able to just dig deep and know that I really needed to focus on myself, where I’ve always, in my entire life, personally and business, put others first. At this time, I needed to put myself first and prioritize things that were very important to my life — wrestling be the one thing and I’ve ever only been super active, whether it’d be in gymnastics, diving, bodybuilding, wrestling. Sports has always been my life and that’s always kind of kept me in a positive direction so I knew I had to dig deep and try to find some way to continue that path and just have a goal and a dream which was to get back in the ring someday, so I’m taking it little by little. Again, did I think that I was gonna get the backlash? Yeah, of course. I mean, that’s part of the game. You’re gonna have haters that are gonna hate on you but, the death threats? Absolutely not… I don’t take that lightly. I do read into things and again, I wish no bad upon anyone. But I also appreciate all the praise. To me, that was shocking how much praise that was given to me, and how happy people were to see how hard I worked to come back. So that has been a blessing. I smile ear to ear every day just knowing that I’m gonna be able to put smiles on people’s faces. So yeah, I’m very excited. It’s just one step at a time. TNA has been by my side through this entire journey, my comeback, and I am super excited to come back to TNA and capture what I never lost — was that TNA title.”

The Elegance Brand (Ash by Elegance, Heather by Elegance, M by Elegance, The Personal Concierge & Mr. Elegance) will be featured on the 1/29 Thursday Night iMPACT. They’ll also be on the 2/3 WWE NXT, where M and Heather will defend the TNA Knockouts World Tag Team Titles against ZaRuca (Sol Ruca & ZARIA).

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Denise Salcedo with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.