Charlotte Flair

Well, what's funny about the Players Tribune piece is I actually started it right after my match with Rhea at WrestleMania 39.

And I started to talk about certain things like body dysmorphia and

Dealing with, I think, criticism online and what that looked like, but also the whole, like, I didn't come this far to come this far.

That was really the main topics.

And then I was like, why am I writing this?

Like, people aren't going to get any of this.

So then I stopped and just, like, completely forgot about it until I'm like, oh, this isn't for me.

And then...

the opportunity like came up again in February after I returned and last year.

And I met with the, with the ghost writer who was helping me write it.

And we were, I was kind of like talking about feeling misunderstood as a character.

Like I had been out a year and,

Why this reception?

Why are people not understanding that really I just want to be good, like good enough for them?

And then it kind of took a pause.

And then after WrestleMania, I decided to finish it.

And I think...

one, it was a great outlet for me just to like get all this out.

But there was a couple of weeks after WrestleMania where Cena had pulled me aside and asked me, you know, what was going on in my head after the promo in Chicago and just kind of where I was at and, you know, what I was doing.

And he was like, you just don't have to be perfect all the time, Ashley.