AJ Lee revealed her biggest fear before stepping back into wrestling.
Recently speaking with Maurice Benard, Lee goes into depth discussion of her fears before returning last year:
“A big fear was coming back to the spotlight and like wrestling again. My last year wrestling, I think we talked about this on the last podcast, there was so much happening in my life. You have all these eyeballs on you. 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, I was a champion, and all this stuff.
So, taking 10 years, 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, like, ‘What’s that pressure going to do?’ But I felt so proud of myself for like, ‘Oh, I have the tools now.’ If I can wake up anxious, or I can be anxious behind the scenes and about to go out through the curtain. But I know how to work with it. So that was like the test was this year.”
(Source: State of Mind with Maurice Benard)