Charlotte Flair says portraying such a confident character on television provides an escape from everyday life.
Charlotte Flair is perhaps the epitome of self-confidence. However, away from the camera, Ashley Fliehr is just like every other human being.
Recently, Flair was interviewed on the Self-Care Is For Everyone YouTube channel and detailed exactly how her character differs from who she is in everyday life and realizing that perhaps she does use the character as an escape.
"I'm definitely not as cool or glamorous [as my character]," Charlotte said. "So the short answer is when I first started in wrestling, I wanted to create a woman that I wanted it to be like in my real life. If you've watched WWE over the years, Charlotte can be petty, arrogant, entitled; all of those things, but at the character's core, it's just always being confident and fighting for what she believes in and competitiveness. As I've grown more confident in my real life over the years, I felt like my character just kept growing leaps and bounds because of it. I wish I was as put together as my character. I always have great outfits and robes. In real life, I'm very casual, laid back. I've got my sandals and socks that I wear."
Charlotte says the character is an escape for her and detailed taking her first extended break in 2022 when she needed to have mouth surgery.
"Charlotte is kind of like my escape. It's not necessarily a bad thing. I like going to work and being her. I like playing that character because even if I don't feel like that, Charlotte always gets to be like that. I had my first extended break last year. I was forced to have the break because I needed mouth surgery, and I was like, 'Oh man, maybe I do mask a lot of things.' It's easy to just turn it on and be Charlotte and not deal with how you're really feeling in real life. So it's kind of like, pros and cons," she said.
Charlotte Flair recently returned and immediately set her sights on the new WWE Women's Championship. She will get another shot at the championship at WWE SummerSlam when she faces Asuka and Bianca Belair.
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