Ash By Elegance Says She Received Death Threats While Sidelined From In-Ring Action & She Originally Didn’t Think She’d Be Able To Make In-Ring Return

As noted before, last week’s live TNA Impact! show featured Ash By Elegance getting physical in the ring and announcing she has been cleared for her in-ring return. Ash had been out of action for TNA Wrestling since this past September’s Victory Road 2025 due to an undisclosed medical issue.

Denise Salcedo held a recent interview with Ash. One of the topics discussed included Ash’s thoughts about her not being ready to disclose the reason why she had to step away from wrestling. Ash also revealed that she had received death threats from some wrestling fans while she was sidelined from in-ring action.

“To be honest with you, it’s personal, and when I feel like I’m ready to share, I will share. I’ve always been transparent about my whole life but this is something that was very personal to me. It did result in retiring or vacating the title, and I just feel as though people like to butt into business where it may not be their business. When I say personal is personal, again, I will share when the time is right for me. But just know and I hope people respect that. It’s been difficult, I must say, reading comments online. Majority has been super supportive, which I appreciate but, on the other side, people have been very negative. I have gotten, unfortunately, death threats and it’s scary at times because people don’t know what goes on behind closed doors and if you know me, you know how hard I work and you know how passionate I am about wrestling. So, all I wanted to do was continue wrestling and I turned a negative, again, into a positive. I was very blessed to do a documentary called ‘Immersed’ and while everything was the high of highs, the lows came crashing down while filming that documentary so it captured some very vulnerable moments in my career that were all real, and everything that I do, I say is true and when the timing is right, I will come out and I will share everything that has happened to me within the past couple of months. It’s just I have to be mentally okay to share that.”

Ash also gave her thoughts about how she originally did not think she would be able to make a return to in-ring action in general nor come back as quickly as she has.

“I definitely didn’t think I was going to return, especially this quick. When everything had transpired, I kind of had to mentally soul-search, and I was really able to just dig deep and know that I really needed to focus on myself, where I’ve always, in my entire life, personally and business, put others first. At this time, I needed to put myself first and prioritize things that were very important to my life — wrestling be the one thing and I’ve ever only been super active, whether it’d be in gymnastics, diving, bodybuilding, wrestling. Sports has always been my life and that’s always kind of kept me in a positive direction so I knew I had to dig deep and try to find some way to continue that path and just have a goal and a dream which was to get back in the ring someday, so I’m taking it little by little. Again, did I think that I was gonna get the backlash? Yeah, of course. I mean, that’s part of the game. You’re gonna have haters that are gonna hate on you but, the death threats? Absolutely not… I don’t take that lightly. I do read into things and again, I wish no bad upon anyone. But I also appreciate all the praise. To me, that was shocking how much praise that was given to me, and how happy people were to see how hard I worked to come back. So that has been a blessing. I smile ear to ear every day just knowing that I’m gonna be able to put smiles on people’s faces. So yeah, I’m very excited. It’s just one step at a time. TNA has been by my side through this entire journey, my comeback, and I am super excited to come back to TNA and capture what I never lost — was that TNA title.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com