Maria Kanellis shares positive health update: ‘The tumor was not cancerous’

After a months-long health scare, Maria Kanellis is breathing a sigh of relief.

Kanellis shared an update with fans on Monday announcing that she does not have cancer. The mass on her adrenal gland was determined to be a rare tumor called a pheochromocytoma, but it was not cancerous. Kanellis said she is incredibly grateful for this good news and is looking forward to the future.

“I wanted to give you guys an update. I know it’s been a little bit, it took a while for the pathology to get back. But I wanted to let you guys know that I am cancer-free,” she said. “The tumor was not cancerous. We are so incredibly grateful and thankful to be moving into this holiday season cancer-free and to not have that worry.

“Thank you so much for all of the well-wishes and the prayers. It did turn out to be a pheochromocytoma, which is an incredibly rare tumor. Only 3 to 8 people get it out of a million. It’s just a weird thing that happened. It affects your mood, it affects your metabolism, it affects your blood pressure, your heart rate. So we are very, very blessed to have found it as early as we did, because it really can start causing problems in your body. So thank you so much. And I am looking forward and I’m really, really hopeful about the future.”

Kanellis, 42, has documented her health journey since the adrenal gland mass was found over the summer. Surgery to remove the mass was performed in October and a biopsy was done to determine whether it was cancerous.

Amid her health struggles, Kanellis revealed that her contract with AEW was scheduled to expire at the end of October. Kanellis has not given an update on if she will be remaining with the promotion or not. She debuted for AEW in 2022 and has been featured as a manager in ROH. Her husband Mike Bennett is a member of the Undisputed Kingdom in AEW.