It's not the wake turbulence that breaks anything up. It's the rolling over inverted at low altitude, and the resulting overstress of the airframe caused by the attempt to correct the problem that breaks things up.
I've hit many a wake turbulence. Even flown a cessna 150 towing a banner through 757 wake. But that was at right angles. It's ANOTHER THING to ride the wake right down the middle.
It's hard to do, but we used to screw around with the banner airplanes, and deliberately ride in the wake. If you get half way in, you can fly straight with almost full aileron. If you get ALL the way in, it will roll you right over. And that was flying behind a Cessna 150.