Charlotte Flair
Tearfully Talks Andrade Divorce
… ‘I Have Failed Again’
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Charlotte Flair just publicly opened up on her divorce from Andrade for the first time … and it’s clear, the decision to split from her former lover tore her apart.
The WWE Superstar sat down with Sherri Shepherd for Friday’s episode of “Sherri” … and she got emotional after she was asked how she handled her breakup with Manuel Alfonso Andrade Oropeza as she was trying to return to the ring from a serious knee injury.
Flair told Shepherd simply, “I didn’t,” and began to break down in tears.
“I felt like I was failing at my job,” she said. “I felt like I was failing at my personal life.”
She then took a pause.
“Hold on,” she told Shepherd. “Let me gather myself.”
Flair began dating Andrade in 2019 … and a year later, they got engaged. In 2022, they wed at a lavish ceremony in Mexico.
But in 2024 — just a few months after she tore her ACL, MCL and meniscus during a match with Asuka — she chose to file for divorce … and she said the whole situation took a toll on her mental health.
“When I made the decision to file for divorce,” she said, “the only thing I kept thinking was I just didn’t want anyone to know.”
She added that, at one point, she thought to herself, “Oh, my gosh, I have failed again.”
Flair eventually rehabbed her knee and returned to the squared circle — and ultimately won the women’s Royal Rumble in February. Days later, though, her divorce became public, and she said she once again went into a dark place.
But now she told Shepherd she’s doing much better … and wants the world to know how far she’s truly come in the last year-or-so.
“This is my biggest comeback yet,” she said.