AEW star Julia Hart has recalled the injuries she picked up while cheerleading, revealing that she went a number of years before getting surgery in one instance.
A cliche term often used in wrestling is ‘it’s not ballet’, which is used by those ignorant to the hard work dancers put into mastering their craft, to state that getting hurt is part of a wrestler’s job.
Julia Hart recently spoke about the injuries she suffered during her dance career, with Hart performing as a cheerleader prior to her AEW run.
Speaking on Taylor Wilde’s ‘Wilde On’ podcast, Hart noted that she once went two years without getting surgery to fix her torn labrum and adapted so she’d lift people with on arm.
Admitting that she was ‘brainwashed in cheer’, Hart said:
So I had two really bad ones (injuries while doing competitive cheerleading). One was my shoulder. I tore my labrum and I battled that for a really long time because it would pop out, it would pop back in and in cheer, we don’t have an off-season.
“Kind of like wrestling, there’s no off-season so if you’re out, you’re kind of screwed so I didn’t get surgery until like two years later of it being torn and I would just cheer with one arm.
“I would literally lift girls with one arm, do the full routine with one arm because I was like, I don’t want to be off and then I finally got the surgery and then I quit my senior year. Long story.
“But then, in 8th grade, I got a really bad concussion. I was at the top of the stunt and I was supposed to switch my legs in the air and I totally missed it.
“The girls dropped me and I just landed on my head and then four days later, I’m in the hospital throwing up, because I told myself, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine because it was like our first competition that weekend too so I was like, oh, it’s my first year on varsity.
“I was like, ‘I can’t miss it’ and then, you know, if it’s your head, go take care of yourself and I’ve learned that now.
“It’s like, if it’s my head, I have to be honest with myself and take care of yourself because concussions are not something to mess with.
“I couldn’t even walk. It was literally like the worst concussion, and I’m in 8th grade so I’m just a little girl and I remember too, I’m in the hospital, s**t (she laughed), it’s the day of the competition that I wake up and I’m throwing up and my coach, one of the cheer coaches calls my mom and goes, ‘Well can she just come quick and do a two minute — it’s just a two-minute routine. Can she just come do it?’
“As I’m in the hospital, throwing up, can’t see and then like, ‘Mom, I gotta go.’ She’s like, ‘Are you kidding me!?’ And I’m like, ‘I gotta go, I gotta go. Two minutes, that’s all it is.’ I was like brainwashed in cheer. I was like, ‘I can do it.’
Hart most recently wrestled on the May 10 edition of AEW Dynamite, defeating Anna Jay in a No Holds Barred match.
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Transcription via POST Wrestling.
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