Ric Flair sat down with PeopleTV to discuss his recent health issues.

In the interview, Flair discusses his battle with alcoholism and his hospitalization in August. Ric Flair's fiancée, Wendy Barlow, discussed the difficulties of Flair's hospitalization in the interview.

The wrestling star underwent surgery at an Atlanta hospital in August, and in the interview, Barlow says Flair complained of severe abdominal pain before she took him to the hospital.

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