TNA wrestler received ‘death threats’ after retirement decision
Former TNA Knockouts Champion Ash by Elegance recently opened up about receiving death threats after retiring from wrestling last year.
Recently speaking to Denise Salcedo, Ash addressed her retirement decision and called it personal, later reflecting on those threats after the decision.
“To be honest with you, it’s personal, and when I feel like I’m ready to share, I will share. I’ve always been transparent about my whole life but this is something that was very personal to me. It did result in retiring or vacating the title, and I just feel as though people like to butt into business where it may not be their business. When I say personal is personal, again, I will share when the time is right for me. But just know and I hope people respect that. It’s been difficult, I must say, reading comments online.
“Majority has been super supportive, which I appreciate but, on the other side, people have been very negative. I have gotten, unfortunately, death threats and it’s scary at times because people don’t know what goes on behind closed doors and if you know me, you know how hard I work and you know how passionate I am about wrestling,” she added.
“So, all I wanted to do was continue wrestling and I turned a negative, again, into a positive. I was very blessed to do a documentary called ‘Immersed’ and while everything was the high of highs, the lows came crashing down while filming that documentary so it captured some very vulnerable moments in my career that were all real, and everything that I do, I say is true and when the timing is right, I will come out and I will share everything that has happened to me within the past couple of months. It’s just I have to be mentally okay to share that.”
After a few months, the 37-year-old returned. Addressing her decision to come back, she claimed, “I definitely didn’t think I was going to return, especially this quick. When everything had transpired, I kind of had to mentally soul-search, and I was really able to just dig deep and know that I really needed to focus on myself, where I’ve always, in my entire life, personally and business, put others first.”
“At this time, I needed to put myself first and prioritize things that were very important to my life — wrestling be the one thing and I’ve ever only been super active, whether it’d be in gymnastics, diving, bodybuilding, wrestling,” she said.
Last September, she relinquished her TNA Knockouts title and stepped away from in-ring action. However, on the second episode of TNA Impact on AMC, she got physical and announced her clearance to return.
The Elegance Brand (Ash by Elegance, Heather by Elegance, M by Elegance, The Personal Concierge & Mr. Elegance) is set to be featured on the upcoming Thursday Night episode of Impact.
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