Natalya recently opened up about her struggles with being completely blind in her left eye.
While speaking to Dariel Figueroa of The Takedown On SI, Natalya shared how she struggled with astigmatism.
“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.”
Natalya also shared that she initially didn’t qualify for a LASIK.
“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 that they had for (a) lens implant, because of the shape of my eye, I didn’t qualify for it.”
The Queen of Harts decided to let her right eye do all the work.
“I was like screw it,” she told us. “I’m not going to wear the contact lens. I’m literally just going to take it out and just let my right eye do all the work.”
Natalya finally got the necessary treatment and she has 20/20 Vision.
“I had a little time off this summer in between my contract re-signing. And 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,” Neidhart said. “Newsom Eye in Tampa. They had the technology that they didn’t have before.”
“They even strengthened my right eye,” Neidhart said. “I had surgery in my right eye to get (it) even stronger so that my right eye (and) my left eye are totally in sync with each other.”
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