Chelsea Green says her exit from X is permanent, and that the platform had started affecting both her state of mind and her working relationships.
Green told Chris Van Vliet on Insight that Ethan Page held her to it after she announced she was going.
“Ethan texted me. He was like, Chelsea, don’t be doing this again. If you’re leaving, you’re leaving for good this time. Do not embarrass yourself,” she said. “I love that. I needed to hear that, holding me accountable. But I am done.”
She said the site had been useful to her for years.
“I love Twitter so much because it allowed me to fill my creative cup when I wasn’t necessarily able to at work,” Green said. “But unfortunately, it has allowed that toxicity and negativity to take over.”
The problem, as she described it, was what engaging with it was turning her into.
“I was telling the world that if I believed and fed into the love, that I would have to believe and feed into the hate, and I was starting to feed into that stuff, and I can’t do it,” she said. “I was becoming this online vigilante, and it was just biting me in the ass.”
Asked directly whether it was affecting her mental health, Green said it was, and that it had spread into work.
“Yes, and it was affecting relationships at work,” she said. “They were trying to say who I didn’t like and who I didn’t get along with. They were trying to say these are the people that are bullies, these are the locker room leaders, and they’re still doing that.”
She used a recent example. Lainey Reid had given an interview in character as a member of Fatal Influence, and Green said it was being read as fact. Reid told Busted Open last month that her only regret about injuring Green was that she had not finished the job, which is a heel talking about an angle. Fatal Influence is Reid, Fallon Henley and Jacy Jayne, and Reid and Henley are the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions.
“They are trying to say that what she’s saying is the truth in real life,” Green said. “Be so for real. People, touch grass. Realise 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.”
Green said wrestling has allowed the line to blur.
“We’ve allowed them to feel that way. We’ve allowed them to be comfortable with supporting us to a fault and dogpiling us. We’ve allowed it all in pro wrestling,” she said. “I hate bullying and I really hate cyberbullying and the narrative that Twitter comes up with and the dogpiling. It’s too much. I love the fandom, but unfortunately, the fandoms also turn into bullying.”
Green has stepped back from the platform before. She posted a farewell address in April 2025 after losing the Women’s United States Championship to Zelina Vega and came back to it, which is what Page was referring to. This time she has not posted since the start of July. She remains active on Instagram.
The timing puts her off the platform through the biggest run of her career. She won the Interim WWE Women’s Championship at SummerSlam on August 2, broke the orbital bone five days later and has been on television and doing media since without an X account. Reporting after the injury noted that WWE officials had been struck by the social media engagement her title win generated.
She said she is not able to walk away from social media entirely while she is still wrestling.
“I hope that in the future what happens is that my work doesn’t depend on social media. But right now, with pro wrestling, it does. There are parts of it that are intertwined,” Green said. “Hopefully I can get to a point where I can just post on Instagram for fun and not for work.”
