Becky Lynch Talks Depression That Nearly Ended Her Career

Becky Lynch has opened up about depression that almost ended her wrestling career before it really started on an interview with Pro Wrestling Illustrated‘s Dan Murphy.

Becky Lynch stopped wrestling early in her career, as she explained:

“I just thought that the door closed for me for life. This fear of success, but fear of failure. Fear of the future. I went into a depression. But I would always write in my journal that I felt like I had unfinished business. That I should be in WWE, but I didn’t know how to get back there.

“I felt like I burned these bridges, but this is what I’m meant to do and how am I going to do it? It was a horrible, harrowing feeling, to not know how to get back there.

“Luckily, some twist of fate or divine intervention – I don’t know what you want to call it – just brought me back to what I feel is my calling, my destiny, if you believe in those kinds of things. And here we are.”

She also spoke about the prospect of main-eventing this year’s WrestleMania:

“It was my goal to main-event WrestleMania and that’s what I set out to do. That’s what I said I was going to do when I moved over here and got signed to NXT. I said I was going to main-event WrestleMania.

“I didn’t know I was going to be the first woman to do it, but it was my intention. And I feel like, of course, the two chosen ones were going to be chosen to be put in the main event of WrestleMania. But I’ve been the one that’s made it interesting.”