Exclusive | WWE star Charlotte Flair opens up about tragic death of her 8-year-old superfan

WWE star Charlotte Flair is mourning the death of a heroic young superfan — whose brave battle with a rare cancer rewrote her outlook on life, she told The Post.Eight-year-old Scarlett Guillen was given only six months to live, but defied the odds for nearly three years.Now she’s making an impact on her heroine from above.“What I learned from her, even at 8 years old, was she woke up every day with a smile on her face.

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.Maybe she didn’t comprehend it, but I think deep down she did,” Flair said.“What I took away from the experience is we really do have to wake up every day going, ‘Today is not guaranteed and some of us don’t have tomorrow.’ She was 8 years old.

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.she doesn’t get to see how good life can be.”Guillen, who was lovingly referred to as Scarlett Strong, was diagnosed in 2024 with Diffuse Midline Glioma (DMG), characterized by tumors that grow on the brain and spinal cord.Flair first connected with Guillen, who was from Orange County, Calif., through WWE’s partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation while Flair was recovering from a torn ACL.“One of our social media guys called me and was like, ‘Hey, there’s a Make-a-Wish little girl here and all she’s talking about is, ‘Where’s Charlotte Flair?’ Do you mind if I FaceTime you?'” recalled Flair, who spoke to The Post from the ESPYs red carpet at the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center last week.From that moment on, Flair kept in touch with Guillen, her parents, Kim and Isaiah, and her older sister, Ellena — and even attended Scarlett’s First Communion in May.“She’s like family to us now.

She comes over.My whole family knows her now,” Kim said in a video WWE posted on TikTok in May.“She’s told me plenty of times, ‘You’re stuck forever with me.’ To hear that coming from her, it means the world to us.”Flair — the daughter of legendary wrestler Ric Flair — even invited Guillen an...