Liv Morgan is enjoying the peak of her career. But it doesn’t mean that the current Women’s World Champion didn’t face any setbacks in her decade-long career. After suffering an injury in 2025, Morgan almost lost faith in everything.
Morgan suffered a right shoulder injury during a match against Kairi Sane on RAW in June 2025. After that, she had to vacate her tag-team title, go through surgery, and a recovery process of around five months.
Liv Morgan opens up on the emotional toll of lengthy WWE injury absence
Speaking on the What Do You Wanna Talk About podcast with Cody Rhodes, Morgan talked about how tough her 2025 break was, and how it made her question her belief that everything happens for a reason.
“Honestly, the injury was really hard for me. Like I took it really hard. I was very sad for a very long time. I’m like a very much like ‘everything happens for a reason’ type person. Even if something happens that’s terrible. I’m so, like, optimistically delusional that I’m like, ‘No, this happened for my greater good, and maybe I don’t see it now, but I know this happened for my greater good.’ My injury, I was like, ‘No, this happened just to f*ck me,'” Morgan said.
She felt like her career had come to a screeching halt at the worst possible time. Missing big events like SummerSlam in her home state and WWE Evolution made it even more frustrating.
“I didn’t know what I was gonna come back to as far as work. Like I was gonna be out for six months. Like that is so unknown. I could come back and everything that I know could be different. And so I just was sad, and I just really didn’t know, like, what to believe in if I didn’t believe that I was gonna be okay at the end of the day,” Morgan added.
Things finally started to change for her after a FaceTime call with her teammate Raquel Rodriguez. While Morgan was sharing her frustrations, Rodriguez told her that when you feel like you have no faith, that’s when you need it the most.
“I was just on FaceTime, just like being upset as I was always being. And I was just telling her like, ‘I just don’t believe in anything. I don’t have any faith right now on what this looks like on the other side.’ But she just was like, ‘Sister, I feel like when you feel like you have no faith is when you’re supposed to have the most.’ And it was just so simple. But I just was like, ‘Huh!'” Morgan said.
That moment really stuck with Morgan. It didn’t fix everything instantly, but it helped her slowly change her mindset.
“I feel like that was when I was kind of able to stop feeling sorry for myself. And just pick myself up a little bit. But that was like the start of me feeling like, ‘Okay, I’m coming back like mentally, emotionally, and physically.’ And so Raquel definitely, definitely helped me out of some rainy days,” Morgan added.
Morgan eventually returned at Survivor Series in November 2025 and created a big moment by attacking John Cena during his match against Dominik Mysterio. Later, she won the 2026 Royal Rumble. And now, she is the Women’s World Champion, after beating Stephanie Vaquer at WrestleMania 42.
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