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WWE Star Thea Hail Breaks Down In Heartbreaking Video

By John Canton • Published Mar 09, 2026 11:31 EDT
WWE Star Thea Hail Sent An Emotional Message To Haters (Image via X/@@theahail_wwe)
WWE Star Thea Hail Sent An Emotional Message To Haters (Image via X/@@theahail_wwe)

Thea Hail is speaking up about dealing with online haters.

When Thea Hail signed with WWE in May 2022, she was just a 19-year-old with a bit of wrestling experience fresh out of high school.

Thea Hail spent a lot of her early NXT run as part of the Chase University group led by Andre Chase, since she had the look of somebody just starting at a university. Since then, she has evolved as a character, but has maintained the same babyface persona she’s had over the last three years.

In December 2025, Thea Hail won the NXT Women’s Championship for the first time in a match against Blake Monroe, where Monroe was supposed to kick out, but she was late to do so, and the referee counted to three. Hail didn’t have a long title reign, but it was a big deal for her to win a title.

Like many WWE superstars, Hail is active on social media and loves to post funny videos on Instagram. Hail also posted a video about dealing with online hate and how frustrating it is.

“I’ve been wanting to touch on this subject for a long time now and I just haven’t felt like I should, and now my opinion’s changed. I’m a 22 year old girl. Think about that for a second. I wouldn’t have even graduated college if I’d been.”

Thea Hail Has Been Through A Lot To Follow Her Wrestling Dream

As she continued, an emotional Thea Hail talked about moving away from home when she was in high school, which isn’t something many people would do. She also spoke about being disgusted by some of the hate she deals with on social media.

“I moved away in the middle of high school to pursue my dream, because I valued that over comfortability, and most people could never have fathomed to do that.

“And every day, to look at my Twitter timeline or look at social media and see negative comments about me as a human being, is disgusting.

“I’ve worked my ass off for five years. For the biggest moment of my career. And you all take it as a joke. You act like I’m the worst human being in the world, for my one ounce of success that I finally had.

“It sucks. I don’t think you understand every day that I wake up happy, sad, miserable, I don’t care – I put professional wrestling above everything.

“And for five years, I have valued this industry to such an extent and I’ve valued others’ opinions, and it is exhausting. I love this more than anything, but what I don’t love is to constantly be torn down by other people, by other human beings.

“At the end of the day, I am a person. I am a 22 year old girl who is getting to live my dreams. And for some reason, that’s wrong? And for some reason, you guys decide that you wanna go hate on somebody else because you’re not happy with yourself. You feel the need to tear somebody else down to build yourself up. Are you serious?

“I don’t understand it. I don’t understand the level of hate in professional wrestling today. For just one second, I would love for you guys to internally think, would you like for somebody to say this about me? Think about that.

“So please, take an extra 10 seconds before you put something up on social media. Please. And remember that the person on the other end of it is also a human being.”

The NXT brand presented Vengeance Day this past Saturday, and while Thea Hail was not part of the show, she remains a big part of the NXT women’s division, and she is somebody with a very bright future in WWE.