Charlotte Flair on Ric’s Health, Reid’s Death, and Prior Abusive Relationship

Recent episode of the Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia podcast show had Charlotte Flair as the guest discussing several topics including Ric Flair’s current health status, her brother Reid’s tragic passing, and getting out of an abusive relationship.

On the topic of Ric Flair’s current health status, Charlotte gave a simple statement of him feeling really well at the moment.

“Oh, he’s doing really well”

On the topic of her brother Reid passing away from a drug overdose, Charlotte stated she wished she could have patched wrestling career issues between the two prior to his passing. She mentioned writing her new book helped her cope with the lingering feelings from his loss and as a way to show the impact he had towards her own life and career.

“I got so frustrated towards the end. He was in Japan doing well before he passed. He asked me to promote something for him, and I didn’t want to because I was just angry at him for making mistakes, and I have a lot of guilt – if I had done things differently. But that’s my thing about the book. I was getting to write my letter to him, letting him know that what he wanted to do and become, I’m making sure happens. And I still haven’t really accepted that he’s gone…And I know it’s hard on my mom, for sure, hard on my mom that the only thing the world sees is her son dying of an overdose, instead of what a beautiful soul he was… So I think getting to write about him and what he meant to me in the book, meant a lot.”

Later in the interview, Charlotte revealed the struggles she went through with her prior relationship and why she had to end it in order to escape the cycle of abuse that was going on.

“At that time, we were young, and he had family issues as well, and I was constantly trying to make up for those – but when, in reality, we were both in unhealthy situations. And I kept thinking, ‘Well maybe if I looked a certain way or acted a certain way, or if I did this better he wouldn’t do xyz.’ But it really had nothing to do with me, so I was continuing to make excuses. And when you’re in a codependent relationship like that, you’re listening to what the person says, but even though they do something else and say, ‘Oh, I’m sorry. It will never happen again,’ but that’s not really how it is if the behavior never changes.”

Other topics discussed during the interview included her rise as a star in the WWE, adapting to the wrestling business, being compared to her father as a wrestler, working with Natalya, and becoming an author.