Charlotte Flair Believes She Tore Her ACL Because She ‘Wasn’t All There’ Mentally While Performing

Charlotte Flair recalls tearing her ACL because ‘she wasn’t all there’ mentally at the time.

In December of 2023, Flair would suffer a torn ACL injury that would take her out of action for the entirety of 2024 before returning to the ring at the 2025 Women’s Royal Rumble match.

While speaking to Bloomberg Talks in a new interview, Charlotte Flair recalls tearing her ACL and how she wasn’t in the best state of mind at the time.

“Definitely think when I hurt my knee, I tore my ACL. I don’t think I was in the right state of mind, meaning whether it was imposter syndrome, that dialogue, that how we talk to ourselves, that inner self-talk. I feel like I was in a very negative space and not opening up about it and the anxiety of you know, being a woman that’s approaching 40, what that looks like, the demands. I want to be able to say I’m a woman and what I want more of is time and all that pressure adding up. I feel like the reason I hurt my knee is because I wasn’t all there, performing. For someone who has, I always looked at myself as the iron woman, and when my knee took me out, I was like, all I viewed myself as a professional wrestler. Like that’s all I am, and that’s not all I am. I do have a voice and maybe this is the start of something bigger for me. Like I love being Charlotte, but taking Charlotte to the next level and making these conversations more accessible or not taboo for people in any kind of industry, I think is so important.”

Charlotte and Alexa Bliss recently became the number one contenders for the WWE Women’s Tag Titles. You can read more about that here.

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