via Cultaholic
Sasha Banks has said that a serious bout of depression led her to requesting her release from WWE in 2019.
That year, Banks requested to be let go following WrestleMania 35, after a reported incident backstage at the show.
On the card, Banks and Bayley lost the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships to The IIconics in a fatal four-way tag-team match.
Speaking with The Athletic, Sasha recalled that a separated shoulder and depression forced her to request to be let go:
”I had a Make-A-Wish the next day and I couldn’t move, couldn’t put my clothes on, couldn’t do my hair. Bayley had to come into my room and do that. I didn’t want to tell anybody. Those titles meant so much to me.”
I felt so sad every day and I didn’t know why. I had to take myself away from a situation and such a fast world where I had to stop and realize who Mercedes was and who Sasha Banks was. I had no time off. I never got to see myself, my family. I took that time to figure out what I loved besides wrestling.”