In a current interview with PEOPLE, WWE’s Charlotte Aptitude (actual title Ashley Fliehr), informed the publication that she hopes to indicate followers extra sides of who she is in actual life.
“On the other facet of WrestleMania, I believe I’ll faucet extra into that and type of attempt to deliver me — Ashley, the actual individual — to Charlotte, as a result of I do really feel like Charlotte actually isn’t, the character I made just isn’t relatable…If I might be ‘Charlotte’ in my actual life, I’d,” Aptitude mentioned. “In actuality, if I wasn’t right here proper now, I’d be in sweats watching outdated episodes of ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis.’ However no, I really feel like at this stage in my profession I’d like to tug the curtain again just a little bit and present them like, hey I’ve been this hardcore, dominant b—- for nonetheless a few years. However I’d prefer to additionally be capable of high-five the children as I stroll down the aisle.”
Additionally within the interview, which passed off throughout WWE’s Corridor of Fame Ceremony Pink Carpet, the 39-year outdated former 14-time Ladies’s Champion spoke on her divorce from fellow WWE expertise Andrade. The 2 married in Could 2022, however divorced in October 2024. The information of the couple splitting was not made public nonetheless till earlier this 12 months.
“I’ve felt a bit uncovered…I believe a weight has been lifted off my shoulders as a result of ‘Charlotte’ needed to be so excellent and pristine on a regular basis and other people couldn’t separate the character and who I’m in actual life…So, getting all these items which have been actually laborious for me off of my chest, like, ‘That is who I’m, settle for me.’ It looks like I don’t need to — not essentially disguise — however I’m not worrying about, you already know, ‘What’s going to occur at the moment?’ Or in an interview, ‘Are they going to ask me and I’ll need to pivot to one thing else?’ It’s like, that is the genuine me. And it feels actually good.”
Just some weeks forward of her Ladies’s Title Match at WrestleMania 41, she appeared on the Sherri Shepherd Present, opening up for the primary time about her third divorce. Charlotte informed Shepard she felt like she was failing professionally and personally. (The interview is embedded on the very backside of this text.)
“I felt like I used to be failing at my job, I felt like I used to be failing in my private life.”
Charlotte then went on to say that it was additionally “the embarrassment of being divorced once more” and “being in contrast” to her father, WWE Corridor of Famer Ric Aptitude that was weighing on her. Ric divorced his fifth spouse Wendy Barlow final September. Previous to Andrade, Charlotte was beforehand married to Riki Johnson from 2010 to 2013 and Thomas Latimer from 2013 to 2015.
Charlotte was unsuccessful in capturing the WWE Ladies’s Championship from Tiffany Stratton at WrestleMania 41 Night time One. She earned the title alternative after making her shock return on the 2025 Royal Rumble this previous February and successful the Ladies’s Rumble Match.
In the course of the April 4 episode of WWE SmackDown, Stratton and Charlotte reportedly went off script throughout an in-ring verbal trade, which noticed Stratton make reference to Charlotte’s three failed marriages. Charlotte then fired again by saying Stratton’s real-life boyfriend, Uncooked expertise Ludwig Kaiser, with Charlotte saying he was in her DM’s. WWE edited this a part of the phase that aired on the corporate’s digital media platforms. Nonetheless, the USA Community didn’t scrub that a part of phase from the video on cable channel’s YouTube account.
She was out of motion for all of 2024, after she tore her MCL, ACL and Meniscus throughout a botched transfer towards Asuka on the Tribute to the Troops Particular on December 8, 2024.
