Over the weekend it was reported that Mickie James had suffered a knee injury at the Saturday night WWE Live event in Waco, Texas.

The original hope was that Mickie just aggravated her knee and wouldn’t require time off, as she was able to walk around okay backstage after the incident. As a precaution WWE kept her off the following night’s event in College Station, but it appears that things are worse than anticipated.

The nine-time women’s champion took to Instagram Live earlier today to reveal that her knee injury is indeed legitimate, and that she will unfortunately require ACL surgery to repair the damage.

At this point there’s no word on how severe the ACL injury is or how much time she’ll need to be out of action, but the usual timetable for similar injuries is about 6-9 months.