Charlotte Flair Offered To Pull Some Strings For Released WWE Star

Charlotte Flair offered to help a former WWE star after they were released.

Shotzi left WWE in May after being informed that her contract wouldn’t be renewed. The star initially signed with the company back in 2019 and went on to win the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship alongside Ember Moon (Athena).

Her departure caught fans by surprise, even though she hadn’t been used on television for several months.

During a new interview with Denise Salcedo, Shotzi looked back on her release and revealed that Charlotte Flair was the first person to contact her. The star added that she’ll forever be thankful for the relationships she built while with WWE.

“She was honestly the first person that called me. When, when that news hit, she was the first person to call me. She was like, ‘what do you need me to do? What connections can I pull to, what do you want? Like, I will help you.’

She has just been such a rock for me. I hope me for her as well, just because like we were doing ACL rehab at the same time. We were just there for each other, she has been somebody like a person that I cried to. During that whole process, she’s just been so great.

That’s what I’m saying when I’m like the relationships that I made at WWE are the most important thing to me. Charlotte and Bayley, I look up to them in the ring, but also outside of the ring as people, you know, they’re just wonderful people.”

Shotzi And Charlotte Flair Became Close Friends

As the interview continued, Shotzi was asked how she came to be friends with Flair. The former SmackDown star revealed that the pair really clicked from the first time they shared the ring, but that their relationship eventually became much more than that.

“I would say that we really started connecting our first match, that first match that I had on the main roster when I turned heel. We just really started connecting. I loved working with her and I honestly learned so much from her, even just like from live events.

That girl goes hard. Like even just for a live event match she goes hard, she takes the craziest bumps, like no matter what she is killing it and she just knows how to take her time in the ring and I learned a lot from her and you know, just had so many conversations with her about wrestling and then when we started tagging is when like our relationship really started growing.

So I’m just grateful that I got to learn from her and also be her friend.”

Flair was most recently in action on the June 13 edition of SmackDown when she competed in a Queen of the Ring qualifying match against Candice LeRae, Alexa Bliss, and Alba Fyre. When all was said and done, it was Bliss who walked away with the victory.

Following her release, Shotzi has headed back out on the independent scene; however, she’s already admitted she’d like to return to WWE.

H/t to Fightful