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AEW wrestler Ruby Soho struggled to breathe and battled ‘mental difficulties’ during injury recovery-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro
The former WWE star has opened up about her tough road to recovery.
Ruby Soho broke her nose back in September (Picture: AEW)
All Elite Wrestling star Ruby Soho as opened up about the difficult recovery process from her broken nose.
The former WWE superstar – who performed as Ruby Riott before being released by the company in June 2021 and joined rival promotion AEW three months later – suffered a brutal injury at All Out last month, when an in-ring accident left her with a broken nose and damaged septum.
Appearing on SirusXM’s Busted Open Radio, Soho revealed how she ‘had a deviated septum for a long time’, having already broken her nose around seven times before the more recent injury.
‘When I got it broken the last time, one, I have never felt that kind of pain before in my life. If you watch the clip back, right after she knees me in the face, you can see my stomach go in because I’m literally screaming, and I’ve never screamed out of pain before in my life,’ she said.
‘It ended up, my septum went like this, so I could not breathe out of either nostril. I had broken it, so most of this is cartilage. I had my broken my nose, which is just a little space here, in two different places.
‘Then this had just slanted entirely. My nose was so wide and across my face. So I had always had trouble breathing prior to that, but then after that, I couldn’t breathe out of my nose for the first two and a half months that I had, and then I had surgery and everything like that.’
Ruby Soho faced a tough road to recovery (Picture: Twitter/Ruby Soho)
The procedure involved putting ‘stints in each side’ of her nose, and once they came out she ‘slept like the dead’ after ‘finally’ being able to breathe again.
She added: ‘But it was a rough recovery, for sure. Right after that, it was brutal. Not being able to breathe out of my nose for so long and then breathing out of your mouth so much, and then your throat gets dry, and that starts to close up, and you can’t breathe.
‘It’s crazy, some of the things you kind of take for granted that are just normal everyday [things] until it’s taken away from you.’
As well as the physical side, there were also mental challenges with the recovery as Ruby found herself in a tough position suddenly having to step back from her in-ring career.
‘It’s such an abrupt stop with no anticipation, and it’s such a change in lifestyle in such a quick period of time, so your brain has to have time to kind of get used to where you’re at now,’ she explained, particularly with the idea of missing out on opportunities.
‘A lot of mental difficulty comes with that, but I think at the same time, it’s super important to realise that you need those times.
‘You need those times for things to stop so you can process everything that’s happened in the recent years or months or whatever, and you can really just take the time to let your body recover.’
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