Sara Lee Dies: Winner Of Reality Show ‘Tough Enough’ And WWE Wrestler Was 30
deadline.comSara Lee, winner of Season 6 of the WWE’s reality series Tough Enough, died today at age 30, her mother said. No cause was given. “It is with heavy hearts we wanted to share that our Sara Weston has gone to be with Jesus,” Terri Lee wrote on social media. “We are all in shock and arrangements are not complete.
We ask that you respectfully let our family mourn.” Lee recently battled what she called a sinus infection but posted earlier this week that she was feeling well enough to work out. “Celebrating finally being healthy enough to go to the gym 2 days in a row,” she wrote on Instagram. “First ever sinus infection kicked my butt.” Lee earned a WWE one-year contract after her 2015 win on the reality series but was released in September 2016.
She went on to wrestle on the independent circuit. Fellow wrestler Bull James organized a GoFundMe for Lee’s family. He wrote: “We’re all shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Tough Enough winner Sara Lee.
As her loving husband, Cory, picks up the pieces and continues to raise their 3 children, the last thing anyone in that position wants to be worried about is money and paying for a funeral and everything else that comes along with it. “The wrestling community has always been one to come together in the wake of tragedy and this is no different.
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