Former WWE NXT star Elayna Black, known as Cora Jade, nearly lost her life in 2023 due to an ectopic pregnancy.
Jade was off WWE NXT TV between January and April 2023. In an interview on The Ariel Helwani Show, she revealed that her absence resulted from a serious medical emergency.
“In January of 2023 it was like the very late January, I was supposed to wrestle Lyra Valkyria on TV on Tuesday, and long story short. I’ll spare you the details long story short, I ended up in emergency surgery in the hospital the night before. Literally almost dying and bleeding out. Because I had had an ectopic pregnancy that had failed and it exploded and, like, made me internally bleed.”
Black says she was rushed into emergency surgery so she didn’t bleed out. She noted that she was worried about making it to her match the next day. In hindsight, she is thankful she went to the hospital. After an 11-hour wait, doctors realized she needed immediate surgery.
Cora Jade reflects on life threatening pregnancy & missing WWE NXT Stand & Deliver 2023
“So what had happened was, I had, I don’t know if you’re familiar with the IUD birth control. It’s inserted in you, it’s like a 99.9% success rate. But they warn you beforehand, ’cause it’s like a 5-year thing, so you’re, like, protected for 5 years. But they warn you of ectopic pregnancies beforehand. Which, if you’re not, or anyone else isn’t familiar, it’s where, like, the egg is implanted outside of the uterus, in the fallopian tube and that causes the fallopian tube to explode.”
“Obviously, you internally bleed, and it’s very, extremely life-threatening obviously to the baby or whatever it was, but to the woman. So I was always scared of that in general, ’cause I have health anxiety anyway. So I was always worried about that so I kind of again, my intuition, I was like, this I know what’s happening. Like, I got to go.”
“So we did that, had the emergency surgery. They ended up having to remove my left fallopian tube because it was that bad. And then I was just, I was just bummed about missing Stand & Deliver. Like, I was like, I can’t miss like, I cannot miss Stand & Deliver. But then, like, after that, I felt like I guess nothing has ever happened like that to me before. I never realized, like, the effects of it and stuff like that. So, like, after I came back, like, those few months, I was just the most mentally depressed I have ever been in my entire life.”
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