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#3. Sasha Banks — Depression took over as her life with WWE consumed her
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Sasha Banks is one of the biggest superstars in WWE today regardless of gender. She has taken a dip into the world of acting and has found some success with her role in the popular Mandalorian show on Disney+.
This has led some to speculate that Banks has the most crossover appeal in WWE, despite not being pushed as the #1 woman in the company. However, a few years ago, she had reached a breaking point.
It was 2019 around WrestleMania 35 when reports came out that Sasha Banks lost her temper backstage. She would proceed to take a hiatus until the summer of that year when she returned to have an epic feud with Becky Lynch.
In early 2021, she spoke to WWE Hall of Famer 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin on The Broken Skull Sessions and went into detail about how depression had taken over her during that time:
"Depression. Depression was taking over. My mind was taking over. My thoughts were taking over. This place was being bigger than me, and I really really lost myself because, for a good seven years, I didn't even hear my real name. I didn't hear Mercedes anymore. All I heard was Sasha Banks. And travelling on the road, we only get one to two days off. So I'm home. Not even seeing what my real hair looks like. All I see is purple hair every single day. There were so many things that I let it control me . . . I was looking in the mirror, and I was looking in my eyes, and I lost all the light in it. I couldn't even look at myself, I didn't even know who the hell I was. How I was going into work, how angry I was, how sad I was. It was not the person that I dreamt to be . . . It hit the fan and I wanted to make sure that I didn't lose myself."
Sasha Banks would return better than ever, but her detailed account gives an insight into how brutal the life is for a WWE superstar despite all the bright lights and glamor.
Thankfully, the break she took worked out well and she came back better than ever, becoming one of the company's key figures in the pandemic era.
