00s WWE star, 42, rushed back to hospital days after having a ‘mass’ removed

Wrestling star Maria Kanellis is back in hospital just days after undergoing surgery for an adrenal gland mass.

The 42-year-old superstar, who first worked for WWE for five years until 2009 before returning in 2017 for a three-year spell and now appears for AEW and Ring of Honor, has been keeping fans updated on her health battle after previously revealing she would be undergoing a retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy.

On Monday, she shared a selfie from her hospital bed and wrote: ‘Spent the night in the emergency room receiving different cocktails of drugs including anti-nausea, morphine, caffeine/ibuprofen, magnesium, etc trying to make me comfortable.

‘Then, they re-admitted me this morning because they could not control the pain, at 4:00am. I’m having trouble walking and standing because of the pain. I miss my kids and I am ready to be home but here I am.’

Her latest update comes after she revealed on Sunday she was heading back to hospital for a separate visit as the pain her ‘neck, spine and head’ was ‘substantially worse’.

‘I can’t stand up straight without pain and nausea. I just wanted to be done with issues. Trying to stay positive,’ she added, just one day after she’d come home after surgery.

Maria – who had half her thyroid removed last February – underwent surgery to remove her adrenal gland ‘and a mass’ which could be a ‘pheochromocytoma’.

Last week, after her operation, she told her fans: ‘Wednesday – Hello all, I am still in the hospital. The surgery went well and my bloodwork looks good. We should have the biopsy results in 7-10 days to figure out exactly what the mass was.

‘I like to call the mass Arnold. I may stay overnight one more night because I have nausea and a headache when standing which may be blood pressure related or something else. Everyone at Rush has been amazing and so kind.’

On Friday night, Maria – whose husband Mike Bennett wrestles for AEW – thanked fans for their support and revealed the tumour was ‘hormone producing’.

‘So they think that the lack of those hormones combined with my positioning for the feeding tube is causing the headache,’ she explained.

‘So, I met with the neurologist and will have an appointment with a neurological physical therapist after I get out of the hospital.’

Maria first broke into wrestling in 2004 as part of the Diva Search that year, and she had an early scare when she tried to hit a sunset flip on Mickie James during training.

‘I landed on my chin. I went to do a sunset flip, went and I caught my chest on Mickie and I landed right on my chin,’ she in 2021.

‘So, my butt was hanging in the air and I was balanced on my chin and my chest. I thought I was paralysed, it was awful! As a fan, you don’t know until you know. It’s intense.’