Chelsea Green opens up in detail about her SVT heart surgery
Earlier this year, WWE’s Chelsea Green underwent a heart procedure in May 2026 to treat supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) after experiencing symptoms for ten years.
Recently appearing on TMZ’s Inside The Ring, Green opened up in detail about the surgery and her heart condition and symptoms that led to it.
Speaking on the show, Green noted that she was afraid she could die if an SVT episode occurred during one of her matches. “I was sitting doing a signing. I hadn’t had an energy drink; I hadn’t been drinking coffee. I was just sitting there relaxing, hanging out with the Fanatics guys, and my heart rate jumped up to 228 beats per minute at a resting state. It stayed like that for well over 10 minutes, probably just under 15. Because it was so long, we were able to get the paramedics to come and do an EKG, and that is basically how we finally were able to catch it and book emergency SVT ablation surgery.
“That was my fear, is that if it started in the ring, was it ever going to stop? I cannot be in the ring in front of 10 or 20,000 people and go into tachycardia and still finish a match. The risk of death is obviously huge. When we finally caught it, I had to get surgery immediately. I think we caught it on a Saturday afternoon, and I was in surgery by Wednesday or Thursday.”
Further in the interview, while discussing the surgery, Green also added that she woke up during the procedure. “When I finally was in surgery, or going into surgery, I think that’s when everything really hit. The process of going to get that surgery, walking in through those doors, having it explained to me, being on the table, being woken up mid-surgery for them to send you into tachycardia to then prove that the surgery they did would help you, all of that was very, very traumatic,” Green added. “When I came out of it, I had, like, weird PTSD of being in that surgery and being woken up while still on the table and having them still operate.”
Chelsea Green says only death can stop her from wrestling
A passionate wrestler and in the industry for over a decade now, Chelsea Green added in her TMZ interview that only death could stop her from wrestling.
“At this point, I’ve broken my nose five times. I broke my collarbone, I broke my ankle, I broke my arm three times. There’s nothing that’s going to stop me from wrestling unless I was dead.”
Green is currently scheduled to compete at WWE SummerSlam 2026 for the vacant Women’s Championship.
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