– The latest issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated has a new interview with WWE Superstar Becky Lynch, who addressed how she once dealt with depression in 2006. Below are some highlights.

Becky Lynch on suffering a head injury and depression in 2006: “It felt like death to me. I was Rebecca, the wrestler. And then I wasn’t the wrestler, so who the hell was Rebecca? It was my whole goal that I wanted to change the landscape of women, to just go out there and just wrestle and make people care. Then, all of a sudden, I was just lost with no goals, no ambition. I felt like I let everybody down. And I was so ashamed. I just remember pure shame, of not being able to know what I was going to do with myself, not being able to own up to the fact that I wasn’t doing it, or that I was confused about it.”

“I just thought that the door closed for me for life. This fear of success, but fear of failure. Fear of … I don’t know … of the future, really. And 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.”

Becky Lynch on becoming the first woman to be in a WrestleMania main event: “It was my goal to main-event WrestleMania. 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.”