Natalya opens up about wrestling her career with essentially one eye.
Over the summer, the long time veteran took time off around her contract renewal. She would go on to renew her contract, but she was off screen for a total of three months.
While speaking with The Takedown On SI, Nattie talks about being legally blind in one eye.
”I don’t think even really anybody in WWE knew about it, because I kept it pretty secretive. I was born with astigmatism…I was legally blind in my left eye.”
It was hard to address this issue years ago as the technology wasn’t as advanced as it is today.
”They didn’t have the technology to fix it. I didn’t qualify for LASIK because of how my eye was shaped. At that time, the procedure they had for a lens implant, because of the shape of my eye, I didn’t qualify for.”
She continues, “I had a little time ofd this summer in between my contract re-signing. I was like, if I had this time off, I’m going to ask WWE if I can get this fixed because I went and found an eye doctor. Newsom Eye in Tampa. They had the technology that they didn’t hve before.”
Natalya had EVO ICL implant surgery and she also had her right eye worked on so that both eyes were equal to each other.
The veteran returned to the ring on the Sept. 9 edition of Raw after three months out of the ring. She has returned as a babyface despite teasing being a heel with Sonya Deville before her exit.
