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Sara Lee, former WWE ‘Tough Enough’ winner, dies at 30

“As a former “Tough Enough” winner, Lee served as an inspiration to many in the sports-entertainment world,” WWE said in a statement.

The logo for World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE, appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (Richard Drew, Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Sara Lee, winner of the 2015 WWE “Tough Enough” reality television series, has died at the age of 30, her mother and the wrestling organization said Thursday.

Lee, a native of Hope, Michigan, won a one-year, $250,000 WWE contract in the competition’s sixth season.

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“We are all in shock and arrangements are not complete,” her mother, Terri Lee, said in part in a social media post. “We ask that you respectfully let our family mourn. We all need prayers especially Cory and her children.”

Read more on NBC News here.


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