After losing the SmackDown Women’s Title to Ronda Rousey at WrestleMania Backlash in 2022, Charlotte Flair took a few months off from the WWE before making a comeback on the SmackDown episode of December 30 to defeat Rousey and win the title.
Flair was questioned about whether she continued to follow the product while she was away when she appeared on Ryan Satin’s Out of Character.
“I was pretty disconnected. It’s like, what do I want? What does Manny and I want? What does the future look like? This time has gone by so fast and everyone says it does, and it has. In the same breath, I still feel like there’s all these things I want to do, but I keep getting asked all these questions like, am I supposed to want to be done? I never thought of it that way, so disconnecting for me was more like, when I joined FCW that turned into NXT and my brother died, I just never looked back and just threw myself into work. This was the first time, like, what do I like other than wrestling? You know, not worried about the pressure, the storylines, the being on, just like, none of it. I had to. Everyone always asked me, ‘What is there left to do?’ I’m like, ‘Well, am I not supposed to want that next juicy storyline or that feud that makes you not want to turn the channel?’ That’s what performing is all about?”
You can listen to the complete interview below:
