The Four Horsewomen Pt. 3: Charlotte Flair

Anyway, her early career is defined by tragedy.

FYI, because like her whole thing was that she wasn't like I've watched interviews with her where she was like, we were on the road with my dad.

So like for me, wrestling was just like background noise.

It wasn't something that she was like steeped in.

And her little brother Reed was the guy who wanted to be like the next flair, like wanted to follow in their dad's footsteps.

Problem is her brother Reed was an addict.

And so like her family, her whole family was like really suffering.

And she talks all the time about like she was trying to save her brother by learning to wrestle.

And her brother ended up saving her because she learned to wrestle because she wanted to wrestle with her brother or whatever.

And then her brother ended up passing away.

And very, very sad, very tragic.

But then it kind of, I think, you know, you know, you have, you know, when you have survivor's guilt, you know, when you have like incredible grief in your life and it drives you to make some choices that are like things you wouldn't have done otherwise.

Like if I'm being honest with myself, I probably moved to New York city because my grandma died and I was like, you know, you, it makes you reevaluate everything and become someone you didn't know you could be.

Anyway, that's

like this.

Yeah.

Oh, I have been working through my grandfather's death in therapy for 15 years.

You gotta, it's either that

or like a whole new career, whole new life.

Like you're like, Either you're going to therapy all the time or you're just like

changing your whole life

in an effort to run as fast as you can away from the feelings that you're not going to process.

And I'm not making fun of her.

She literally says that like this is what she did.

She like closed the door on her brother's death and just like trucked forward.