Wrestler Sara Lee, ‘WWE Tough Enough’ winner, dead at 30
WWE wrestler Sara Lee has died at age 30.
Her death was announced Thursday by her mother, Terri Lee, who noted that her loved ones “are all in shock.”
“It is with heavy hearts we wanted to share that our Sara Weston has gone to be with Jesus,” wrote Lee’s mother in a Facebook tribute.
“We ask that you respectfully let our family mourn. We all need prayers especially [her husband] Cory and her children.”
Lee signed with WWE after winning the sixth season of the former reality competition show, “WWE Tough Enough,” People reports.
Lee, with husband Cory James Weston, whose ring name is Westin Blake, was mother to three children, according to her Instagram bio.
Though Lee’s mother did not detail what led to her sudden death, she said that “arrangements are not complete.”
News of the former NXT wrestler’s passing comes just three days after Lee took wrote on Instagram that she felt “healthy enough to go to the gym 2 days in a row” following her “first ever sinus infection.”
Weston, 35, has not yet posted about Lee’s death on his Instagram and Twitter accounts.
Pro wrestler Bull James started a GoFundMe to help Weston as he “picks up the pieces and continues to raise their 3 children.
“The wrestling community has always been one to come together in the wake of tragedy and this is no different,” the 34-year-old athlete continued. “RIP Sara, you were one of the good ones.”
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