WWE‘s AJ Lee says she feared returning to the spotlight.
During her recent appearance on State Of Mind with Maurice Benard, former WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion AJ Lee revealed that her return to wrestling last year served as a test of her psychological growth.
However, she explained how the mental health tools she developed during her time away allowed her to manage her anxiety. While she noted it was scary, dissociation helped AJ Lee go to another place in her mind and gain more confidence.
“A big fear was coming back to the spotlight and wrestling again. My last year wrestling, I think we talked about that on the last podcast. There was so much happening in my life, and you have all these eyeballs on you, and it’s really high-stakes and high-pressure performance. My brain was at my lowest when it seemed like I was on the top of the world, and I was champion, all this stuff,” AJ Lee began.
“So, taking 10 years and really taking care of myself and feeling the healthiest I’ve ever felt, then being like, ‘Okay, now go back into wrestling.’ I was really scared of what’s that going to do? What’s that pressure going to do? But I felt so proud of myself for like, ‘Oh, I have the tools now to, if I can wake up anxious or I can be anxious behind the scenes and about to go out through the curtain.’ But I can, like, you know, how to work with it,” AJ Lee continued.
“So that was like the test this year.” When asked how the experience was, AJ Lee said, “Scary, but what’s very much helped me is dissociation.
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