Cora Jade (Elayna Black) was off WWE television from January 2023 to April 2023, but she wasn't injured during that time.
Speaking to Ariel Helwani on The Ariel Helwani Show, Cora detailed her ectopic pregnancy and emergency surgery.
"I've never talked about this, and it's a very personal thing, but I want to say it. If you only knew what I was going through, you're pretty messed up if that's what you're saying to me," she said, speaking about fans calling her injury prone or various names.
"In January 2023, late January, I was supposed to wrestle Lyra Valkyria on TV on Tuesday. Long story short, I ended up in emergency surgery in hospital the night before. Literally almost dying and bleeding out because I had an ectopic pregnancy that had failed and it exploded and made me internally bleed. I was rushed into emergency surgery because I was this close [holds fingers close together] to bleeding out. Thank God I went because I was literally thinking, 'I just have to get through the match tomorrow.' I knew something wasn't right, but I just thought I had to get through the match, but I'm bleeding. I had to go to the hospital. I got there and it was an eleven hour wait, they told me. 'I can't.' They checked me in and immediately rushed me into emergency surgery. I dealt with that," she said.
Cora continued, "What happened was, I had an IUD birth control. It's inserted into you. It's a 99.9% success rate, but they warn you beforehand, it's a five-year thing, you protect your eggs for five years. They warn you of ectopic pregnancy beforehand. It's where the egg is implanted outside of the uterus in the fallopian tube, and that causes the fallopian tube to explode, you internally bleed, and it's extremely life-threatening to the baby and woman. I was always scared of that in general, because I have health anxiety anyway, so I was always worried about that. My intuition, I was like, 'I know what's happening. I have to go.' Had the emergency surgery, they ended up having to remove my left fallopian tube because it was that bad. I was bummed about missing Stand & Deliver. 'I can't miss Stand & Deliver.' Nothing has ever happened to me like that before. I never realized the effects of it. After I came back those few months, I was the most mentally depressed I have ever been in my entire life. I remember calling one of the WWE doctors and being like, 'I need to go somewhere. I'm not okay. This is not okay.' I don't know what it was because nothing was really wrong, but I learned later, you deal with post-partum depression, and it's so intense. I was 23 years old and the craziest thing I had ever experienced. I went back to work and I was not there mentally. Nothing to do with work. I literally didn't realize the toll that takes on you as a person. I had always wanted to get my boobs done. I'm not going to sit here and say I didn't, but I needed to go away and take time off or I don't know what was going to happen to me. Mentally, I needed to take that time off. I did that in my time off. That's what I chose to do. I took that time, I was out for a month and half, and I got [my boobs] done and that was three months. I took that time to get myself mentally right. I felt good. I was ready to go. I was so excited. I felt good mentally, physically, and emotionally. It was probably the best I ever felt. Then, I came back, I had just went through a really bad break up, it was my birthday, and I tore my knee. It was back to back to back. I was so excited and 'boom, boom, boom.'"
After returning in April 2023 following her health scare, she wrestled until July 2023 before being off television until December 2023. She suffered her knee injury in January 2024.
Elsewhere during the interview, Jade detailed her WWE release and time with the company. You can find her full comments here.
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