WWE Women’s Champion Chelsea Green has confirmed that she has left X/Twitter for good after deciding that the platform was no longer worth the impact it was having on her life.
The decision follows months of online criticism, including an exchange in July when a fan accused “The Hot Mess” of being part of the MAGA movement, something she denied before stepping away from the platform.
Speaking on “Insight with Chris Van Vliet,” Green explained that she had reached a point where she could no longer separate the positive side of social media from the negativity that came with it. She said the constant criticism was affecting her mental health and leading her to become too involved in online arguments.
Green also acknowledged that walking away was difficult because Twitter had once given her a creative outlet when she did not feel she had enough room to express herself through her work.
“I love Twitter so much because it’s allowed me to fill my creative cup when I wasn’t necessarily able to at work, but unfortunately it has allowed that toxicity and negativity to take over.”
The star continued:
“I will not allow the internet to cyber-bully me or any of my friends, and I was becoming this online vigilante, and it was just biting me in the (expletive). I’m not going to allow them to tell me what my beliefs are or who I vote for, even though I’m Canadian. We’ve laughed about that. I’m not going to allow them to tell me what race my friends are, to bully my family, to say things about my coworkers that are untrue or unfair or whatever. I can’t do it.”
Green said the decision also required some accountability from someone close to her. She recalled Ethan Page telling her that if she was serious about leaving Twitter this time, she needed to stay away rather than returning to the platform.
“Ethan Page was like, ‘Chelsea, don’t be doing this again. If you’re leaving, you’re leaving for good this time. Do not embarrass yourself.’ I love that. I needed to hear that, holding me accountable. But I am done, unfortunately.”
The WWE star also made it clear that her frustration is not with wrestling fans themselves. Instead, she believes the culture around social media can turn fandom into something much more hostile.
“I hate bullying and I really hate cyberbullying and the narrative that Twitter comes up with and the dog-piling. It’s too much. I love the fandom, but unfortunately, the fandoms-they also turn into bullying.”
Green has remained active on Instagram since leaving X. Her Twitter account can still be found, but she has not returned to regular activity on the platform.
Chelsea Green Says Online Speculation Has Affected WWE Relationships
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Green’s concerns extend to the way fans interpret interactions between WWE performers. The Women’s Champion said online discussions about who likes or dislikes whom can create assumptions about real relationships, particularly when viewers fail to distinguish WWE characters from the people portraying them.
She pointed to an interview involving Lainey Reid as an example. Green said Reid was speaking in character as part of Fatal Influence, but some fans treated those comments as an indication of what the two stars actually think about each other.
“I literally just saw an interview that Lainey Reid did about me, and she’s completely in character as Lainey Reid from Fatal Influence, and they are trying to say that what she’s saying is the truth in real life. Be so for real, people. Touch grass! Realize that we’re living in a soap opera in WWE. When we go home, we are friends. We text. We hang out. We support each other. We share clothes. We go to the gym together.”
The Women’s Champion believes wrestling’s social media culture has made it increasingly difficult for performers to maintain a separation between their characters and private lives. She also admitted that wrestlers themselves have played a role in making fans feel entitled to that level of access.
“We’ve allowed them (social media users) to be comfortable with supporting us to a fault and dogpiling us. We’ve allowed it all in pro wrestling, and so that’s why there’s like a part of me that’s like, I hope that if I make it to Hollywood, if I break through and I get to do movies and TV. I hope that I can set boundaries then,” Green said. “But right now I’m going to allow it all to happen while I’m in this pro wrestling world, with small exceptions. Now the exception is, unfortunately, you’re not going to be able to reach me via X/Twitter.”
Green is continuing her WWE run while dealing with a broken orbital bone. Although she has removed herself from X, she has not stepped away from her connection with wrestling fans altogether.
Her Instagram presence gives Green another way to share parts of her life and career without returning to the platform she believes had become too toxic. For the reigning Women’s Champion, leaving Twitter has become the boundary she needed to draw.
