Former Divas Champion says her body 'feels great' at 39, reveals emotional 'trepidation' amid WWE return talk

Former WWE Divas Champion Kaitlyn is gearing up for a comeback in the best possible shape ever. She is saying it straight. She feels ready, and she is open to going back, stronger.In an interview on TMZ’s “Inside The Ring,” Kaitlyn said a WWE return is not her No. 1 goal, but she would not rule it out. She last wrestled in 2018, when she competed in the Mae Young Classic.Kaitlyn framed the decision around where she is in life and how her body feels, not around chasing a moment. She also said she has a new business project coming, and she hinted that the timing could line up with a return.“Yeah. So it’s interesting. You know I’m 39. I’ll be 40 in a few months and I’m at the top of my game. I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in. My body feels great. I’m more confident in who I am, my voice than ever before, right? And so I’m open to it. It’s not like okay, this is my number one goal to get back in the WWE ring, but I think that it would make sense.”She also addressed why her answer sounds burlier now than it did in past interviews. She said she used to hesitate because she had not fully processed her ‘WWE experience.’ She described walking into WWE without prior wrestling experience and trying to survive week to week on TV.“So, I’m open to it. And in the past, to be honest, when I would be asked in interviews ‘would you ever go back? Do you want to make a comeback?’ I would be like, you know, maybe. But there was always this trepidation internally because I felt like I hadn’t truly processed my WWE experience emotionally, mentally like I think there was this maturation that needed to happen within myself because when I was there again like I was brand new. I debuted without ever having wrestled before and so I was just like a deer in the headlights constantly and I felt like I was just barely hanging on and anytime that I was on television or I had a big match.”Kaitlyn worked with WWE from 2010 to 2014 and won the Divas Championship during that run. She is also remembered for her 2013 feud with AJ Lee, which played off their broken friendship storyline.But in the same TMZ conversation, she said the pressure outside the ring hit her where it hurt the most. Kaitlyn said she asked for her release even though she still had two years left on her contract.“I left; I had signed my second contract when I had the title in 2013, and I ended up asking for my release with still two years left on my contract and it’s because I was struggling. I was folding under the pressure of show business and the adrenaline and like the emotional roller coaster and also that lifestyle, especially the way it was back then was very difficult to have like real relationships,” Kaitlyn said. “I didn’t have tools to process what I was going through and I didn’t know how to talk about it.”She also described how far things slid before she finally stepped away. “Essentially, like it kind of built to this point in my life where I was struggling mentally, physically, I was gaining weight, emotionally, I was a mess,” she said.Kaitlyn’s pitch for a return comes down to one idea. She thinks she would walk in as a different person with better control of the job.“And so now I just I’m such an evolved person versus who I was then and I just have such a deeper understanding of what pro wrestling is and the artistry of it and the connection with the fans and so I think it would make a lot of sense and I feel like I would do great. I haven’t been in the ring in a while, but you know, some of that stuff comes back pretty easy. And I’m also just smarter with how I would wrestle and who I would be on the show.”