Summary
- Alexis Lete says Cora Jade bullied newcomers and was mean, stemming from a dispute over a TikTok.
- Cora Jade says she tried to help Lete, denies bullying, and says she only spoke to her five times.
- Jade (Elayna Black) was released in May, is a former NXT Women’s Tag champ and on indefinite mental health leave.
Former WWE NXT Superstar Cora Jade is dealing with bullying accusations from a former colleague. The accusations are coming from former WWE developmental talent Alexis Lete. Now Jade has taken to social media to deny the claims and tell her side of the story.
Alexis Lete Talks About Cora Jade’s Alleged Mean Girl Behavior
Before delving into Jade’s comments, what is Lete accusing her of? In one of the latest episodes of That One Time podcast with Adam Metwally, Lete says that Jade was one of her main bullies during her short time in WWE. She alleges that Jade didn’t make the place a safe environment and was standoffish to new talent.
From her story, it appears that it started because the former WWE recruit wouldn’t take down a TikTok that Jade felt was ruining kayfabe, and she couldn’t control the newbie. The friction between them also supposedly hurt Lete’s relationship with current WWE Superstar Roxanne Perez, whom Lete called a “really sweet girl.” She said:
“Everybody thinks I hate her. I don’t. She [Roxanne Perez] actually helped me with a few of my moves and I think she’s a really sweet girl. She was friends with this girl Cora Jade, who was really mean when I was there and was one of the main bullies I had to deal with. In life. I was confused like, ‘Why do we have beef?’ It’s because she texted me and told me to do something. I told her that I wasn’t going to do that, respectfully. She asked me to take down a TikTok. I was like, ‘No.’ It was just ‘this is what I did at work today.’ She’s like, ‘You’re exposing the whole industry.’ I wasn’t. I did not give away anything kayfabe. It was just, ‘This is a fight. We’re planning out the fight,’ but I didn’t say I was planning it with my competition. We all collaborate with each other.”(h/t: Fightful)
She added:
She was butthurt that she couldn’t control me and she wanted to slander (me). She had been there longer than me, but there was no reason why I would respect her because she didn’t do anything to be respected. She didn’t come to introduce herself to the new people. She didn’t make it a safe place to ask her questions about moves. She didn’t offer to stay after and help people. We would go up, shake her hand and she’d literally turn away from us. She was a mean person. She was really mean “End of story, Cora Jade sucks.”
Lete joined the WWE Performance Center in 2022 but was released a year later in 2023. Lete, who is a model and former volleyball star, never got a chance to make it on television before her release.
Cora Jade’s Response
Jade took to X, previously Twitter, where she claimed in a series of tweets that Lete was immediately disrespectful to everyone at the WWE PC, and it caused her to get heat. She said that she tried to help Lete, so she didn’t get any more heat from the others at the PC Center, but Lete didn’t want her help and told her off. Jade also claimed that she only talked to Lete five times. She wrote:
“I shouldn’t be giving this girl an ounce more of my energy but this will be the one and only time I speak on this and if you know you know- This girl came into the pc and immediately had heat with everyone for being disrespectful on more than one occasion I texted this girl trying to HELP before her heat got worse (that had already travelled up to main roster before she even had a match). I’ll go ahead and post the screenshots myself. She chose to basically tell me to f*ck off and then continue to get heat for weeks. Only until multiple main roster talent members spoke to her as well, she decided to come up to me and apologize.”
She added:
“I told her I appreciate the apology, but I don’t respect how she handles things and the ways she disrespects pro wrestling. I came from Indy wrestling, absolutely loved wrestling and was trying to carry on the love and respect that was there when I got there in black and gold. There is absolutely no respect for wrestling with people like this and it’s not my job to care about anymore. Which is exactly what is wrong with that entire place in general. I spoke to her maybe 5 times total [if] that. Blunt to a fault sometimes? Yes. But bullying is crazy.”
Jade, who now goes back to her indie wrestler ring name, Elayna Black, was released from WWE in early May after being with the company since 2021. During her career, she held the NXT Women’s Tag Team Titles with Roxanne Perez. Her last match was at NXT Stand & Deliver 2025. Back in July, Jade announced an indefinite break from wrestling to work on her mental health.
