Charlotte Flair is feeling more like herself.

The 14-time WWE world champion, whose real name is Ashley Fliehr, recently opened up to PEOPLE about the “weight” lifted off her shoulders since her emotional interview on Sherri, in which she spoke publicly for the first time about her recent divorce.

“I’ve felt a bit exposed,” Flair, 39, told PEOPLE during an interview on the red carpet at WWE’s Hall of Fame event in Las Vegas last weekend.

But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, the WWE star explained.

“I think a weight has been lifted off my shoulders because ‘Charlotte’ had to be so perfect and pristine all the time and people couldn’t separate the character and who I am in real life,” Flair said.

“So, getting all these things that have been really hard for me off of my chest, like, ‘This is who I am, accept me.’ It feels like I don’t have to — not necessarily hide — but I’m not worrying about, you know, ‘What’s going to happen today?’ Or in an interview, ‘Are they going to ask me and I’l have to pivot to something else?’ It’s like, this is the authentic me. And it feels really good.”

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Flair’s divorce from fellow professional wrestler Andrade El Idolomade headlines earlier this year and the WWE star initially avoided speaking about it publicly. But weeks before her latest WWE Women’s Championship match at WrestleMania 41 last weekend, Flair sat down with television host Sherri Shepherd and shared insight into the Oct. 2024 divorce for the first time.

“I felt like I was failing at my job, I felt like I was failing in my personal life,” Flair told Shepard, 58, sharing that “the embarrassment of being divorced again” and “being compared” to her father, Ric Flair, who announced he and his fifth wife Wendy Barlow were splitting in September, was weighing on her.

Flair and El Idolo, whose real name is Manuel Alfonso Andrade Oropeza, tied the knot in May 2022. The WWE wrestler was previously married to Riki Johnson from 2010 to 2013, and Thomas Latimer from 2013 to 2015.

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During her recent catchup with PEOPLE, Flair said she hopes to show fans more shades of her real self.

“On the opposite side of WrestleMania, I think I will tap more into that and kind of try to bring me — Ashley, the real person — to Charlotte, because I do feel like Charlotte really isn’t, the character I made is not relatable,” Flair explained, adding that it’s not for a lack of admiration toward her on-screen persona.

“If I could be ‘Charlotte’ in my real life, I would,” Flair said. “In reality, if I wasn’t here right now, I’d be in sweats watching old episodes of Sex and the City. But no, I feel like at this stage in my career I’d like to pull the curtain back a little bit and show them like, hey I’ve been this hardcore, dominant b—- for however many years. But I’d like to also be able to high-five the kids as I walk down the aisle.”

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