WWE star has surgery to treat a health problem she’s been managing for 10 years.
WWE superstar Chelsea Green recently had heart surgery to treat a condition she’s been dealing with for 10 years.
Chelsea, 35, who was the very first WWE United States Women’s Champion, had a three-hour procedure this week to fix supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). SVT is when your heart beats very fast because of a problem in the upper chambers of the heart.
She shared on social media that her latest SVT episode happened during WrestleMania 42 in Nevada last month. “After 10 years of dealing with it, we finally caught my SVT,” Chelsea wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “During WrestleMania, my resting heart rate hit 228 for almost 15 minutes. Yesterday, Dr. Girgis worked on me for 3 hours… and I had to be awake for the last hour!”
Chelsea started her career through WWE Tough Enough and NXT, and also wrestled independently and for TNA and Impact Wrestling between 2014 and 2020. She appeared on SmackDown in 2021, spent time with Ring of Honor and Impact, and then returned to WWE at the 2023 Women’s Royal Rumble.
She’s a former Women’s Tag Team Champion with Sonya Deville and held the US Women’s title in 2024 and 2025. Chelsea has lived with SVT throughout her career, but now hopes this surgery has fixed the problem, so she can get back in the ring without worrying about fast heart rhythms.
SVT means the heart’s electrical system isn’t working right, causing fast heartbeats. Chelsea’s recent episode was near the high end of what’s typical for SVT. According to the NHS, SVT isn’t usually life-threatening but sometimes needs hospital treatment if episodes last too long.
No specific details were shared about Chelsea’s surgery, but the NHS says a common treatment is called catheter ablation. This involves threading thin tubes into the heart to fix the electrical problem using heat or freezing—often curing the condition permanently.