10 Biggest Revelations From AJ Lee’s Book
Former Divas' Champion tells all.
After months of anticipation, the autobiography of former WWE Divas' Champion AJ Mendez Brookes - better known to fans as AJ Lee - has finally been released. The book, entitled Crazy Is My Superpower, offers an honest and open look not just at Lee's wrestling career, but at her entire life. From a traumatic childhood to an uphill battle to make it in the sport she loved, all of the difficulties that Lee faced are detailed in the 288-page narrative.
Fans who followed Lee's career in WWE were privy to some of her roller-coaster ride - her humble beginnings on NXT; her alliances with Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, John Cena, and Dolph Ziggler; her three reigns as Divas' Champion - but like with so many other stars, sometimes what happened on TV wasn't the most interesting part of her story.
During the course of Crazy Is My Superpower, Lee drops a ton of bombs about what she went through, both in her personal life and in WWE. The book is available to purchase right now from Amazon and other book retailers... but here's 10 takeaways from an early read...
10. She Had A Difficult Childhood And Early Adulthood
For much of the early chapters, AJ Lee chronicles the toxic childhood environment she was brought up in with abusive parents. Lee devotes time to talking about her mother, especially, who was obsessed with sexuality and wasted no opportunity to toss accusations at and slut-shame Lee.
At one point, she details a story where her mother told her, "You walk like you've had a d*ck up your *ss." Lee was 10 years old at the time her mother made the comment. It wasn't just her family who was to blame, either - at one point, Lee was forced to stab an intruder who broke into their apartment.
This trauma would have been bad enough on its own, but Lee also suffered from mental illness - specifically, bipolar disorder which was originally misdiagnosed as depression. Failing to get the proper treatment, Lee overdosed on antidepressants and painkillers in a suicide attempt at age 20, and her illness was later identified properly.
Throughout her hardships, she maintained a love of wrestling that drove her to eventually make it to WWE.