Immediate Nether Portal Death

In my game, I have restored a ruined nether portal in survival mode (vanilla Minecraft). It is directly between a village and the desert. After I enter the portal, it goes to the generating world screen (as it should), but after a few seconds, it appears to load the nether chunk in the background. I am able to hear the sounds in the nether, but I cannot see the nether. The generating world screen is still showing. I then hear damage sounds. When the generating world screen finally disappears, the screen changes to the death screen. If I do not wear gold armor, it immediately says that I was killed by a piglin. If I wear gold armor, it says that I was killed by a Husk. The husks must of traveled from the desert into my portal. I cannot currently move my portal due to only having one severely damaged diamond pickaxe which will be destroyed before I manage to mine all the obsidian blocks.

What is expected to happen:
I travel through the portal, the game shows the world generating screen, the screen goes away (and shows me in the nether), then the mobs start attacking me once I am actually in the nether.

What happens:
I am killed by mobs before I even appear in the nether.

Note - I cannot currently provide a video, because Minecraft Legends uses most of my system resources, so Xbox Game Bar (or other recording software) never loads. (and I currently cannot afford to waste gear and armor on dying in the nether)