Ric Flair Opens Up About Being Kidnapped – Declined Meeting Real-Life Brother

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Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair has said he turned down the offer to meet his biological brother.

Soon after birth, Flair was taken from his mother and placed in Tennessee Children's Home Society, separating him from his brother.

On his To Be The Man podcast, Flair said he was contacted by his brother recently.

"My actual brother reached out to me, about a year ago. He wanted to get together. I declined. Where do you go from there? What are you going to talk about? That used to exhaust me. Wanting to know."

The Tennessee Children's Home's Memphis branch operator Georgia Tann was later discovered to have kidnapped children and put them up for adoption.

Flair was one of the children taken without consent by Tann.

Speaking about his kidnapping, Flair said that parents were told by Tann and others that their child had died.

"My mother probably thought I was stillborn. That's what they told a lot of the girls whose kids ended up with the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis — their babies were dead, and they just needed to sign a couple of papers.

"Adoption papers. Most of these girls were poor and uneducated. Some were even under sedation."

Tann is believed to have kidnapped an estimated 5,000 infants, including Flair.