Charlotte Flair Embarrassed By Divorce From Andrade

Charlotte Flair has admitted she struggled to cope while out injured.

2024 was a year to forget for Charlotte Flair on both a personal and professional level.

With regard to her life in WWE, Flair missed the entire year after suffering a major knee injury during a match with Asuka on SmackDown in December 2023. Although she quickly underwent surgery, she didn’t wrestle again until February 1, 2025, and the Royal Rumble.

Just two days after the event it was reported that Charlotte Flair and Andrade had quietly been granted a divorce. The report noted that Flair filed for divorce in June 2024, and it was finalised in October.

The couple had begun dating back in early 2019 before getting engaged a little under a year later. They eventually tied the knot on May 27, 2022, at a ceremony in Mexico.

Charlotte Flair Reflects On Personal Turmoil

During a new interview with Sherri Shepherd, Flair was asked about how she dealt with such a turbulent year. In a moment of brutal honesty, the former Women’s Champion admitted that she didn’t handle things at all, and even felt embarrassed by her divorce. Flair had been married twice before tying the knot with Andrade.

“I didn’t. I felt like I was failing at my job. I felt like I was failing in my personal life and the embarrassment of being divorced again and being compared to my father. Let me gather myself. When I made the decision to file for divorce, the only thing I kept thinking was I just didn’t want anyone to know. ‘Oh my gosh, I have failed again.’

Then, my knee. As women, I think men too, but everyone is probably thinking, ‘She’s going to come back a year older. She’s going to come back less than. She’s coming back off this knee injury.’

Unfortunately, the WWE audience hasn’t gotten to see the come back of Charlotte Flair. This wasn’t a Charlotte Flair redemption story, but for me it’s a redemption story for me because everything I have feared or been scared of or embarrassed of, publicly, because everyone has an opinion, even though they don’t know the facts.

I found my worth. It’s okay to not be okay. That’s what I learned. It’s okay to take a moment, take a breather, to start over. I was able to keep the divorce a secret until I came back, won the Royal Rumble, and then I was on Monday Night Raw, ‘Hearing from Charlotte Flair after her Rumble win and epic return.’ Boom. Everything hits. Everything that I had been scared of hit that day.

The fight is over. I have nothing to fight. This is me, this is who I am, I’m standing in my worth. People can have their opinions. To the audience who watches wrestling, they don’t know what Charlotte has been through to get to where she is, but I know. For Ashley, this is my biggest comeback yet.”

Despite her troubled road back from the brink, Flair returned in style at the Royal Rumble. After entering the match at number 27, she dispatched four other Superstars before claiming victory to set up a Women’s Championship match with Tiffany Stratton at WrestleMania 41.

H/t to Fightful