10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Charlotte Flair
3. Family In-Fighting
A lot to unpack here, and much of it has to do with a series of disputed personal conflicts between Flair, her ex-husband Riki Johnson, Father Ric and - on more than one occasion - the police.
Arrests were made in 2008 when fights broke out between the three, but an already unpleasant story got uglier as more explanations came out in the aftermath. In a WWE-promoted co-autobiography with Ric in 2018, Flair spoke of the trauma she experienced in the marriage, noting that Johnson was physically and psychologically abusive, and had lost jobs due to drug use.
Johnson sued over the remarks, and with a lawsuit brought an allegation that the future multi-time Women's Champion was “the aggressor in a physical and verbal tirade...directed at the responding police officers, as well as disparaging and racist comments being directed at the Afro-American community in Chapel Hill.” Johnson's evidence of the above claim didn't surface, but WWE claimed the remarks were "meritless" and all's gone quiet with the case since.