AEWs Rebel Reveals Lung Cancer and Neurological Diagnosis

All Elite Wrestling personality Rebel, whose real name is Tanea Brooks, has revealed a challenging health diagnosis, announcing that she is battling primary pulmonary lymphoma, a rare form of lung cancer, along with a neurological disorder that has severely impacted her mobility and speech.

The 47-year-old former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader shared the details in emotional posts on Instagram and X, formerly Twitter, over the weekend of November 16-18, 2024. Brooks, who joined AEW in 2019 and appeared on television as the onscreen assistant to former AEW Women's World Champion Britt Baker starting in 2020, has been absent from programming since early 2023. Her last in-ring match was in 2022. In her updates, she described a year-long ordeal that began in May 2024, when she was hospitalized and initially diagnosed with cryptococcal pneumonia, a fungal lung infection. Despite treatment with antifungal medications, her condition did not improve, leading to persistent infections, ruptures, and tumors.

Seeking further answers, Brooks visited the Mayo Clinic, where doctors delivered the correct diagnosis of primary pulmonary lymphoma. "After a year of not getting better, I decided to go...