Perez Hilton has dropped the “most important video that I’ve ever shared.”
The celebrity gossip blogger took to his Instagram on Monday to share an update on his health after being hospitalized for three weeks, as well as how “God presented himself to me” amid the challenging experience.
“My stupidity landed me in the hospital for 21 days, and it was the worst and best thing that’s ever happened to me,” he began in the lengthy video (below).
Before being hospitalized, Hilton said he was battling the flu for a week. However, he was taking all of his medication without food, even though he was supposed to.
That’s when he “developed an ulcer, and then a perforation, and then Sepsis,” he recounted. “The day before I was hospitalized, I was in so much stomach pain. I was like, ‘This is weird, but it’ll go away.’ The next morning, I couldn’t walk. I had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital.”
Hilton said he underwent several tests, including X-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds, because the doctors “couldn’t find where the perforation was.” After five days, he ended up having laparoscopic surgery.
He also had a lot of fluid around his lungs that had to be drained as well as another “major procedure.”
“The Sepsis just kept working and my body kept falling apart,” Hilton explained. “Then one night with rapid response came ’cause my heart got out of control. They had to put me on heart medications. And then I developed another infection in the hospital.”
He added, “It was just such a slow process. I mean, two weeks of just sickness and then another week of getting better before I was released. And that last week was hell because I had already been in the hospital two weeks by then. I was like, ‘I just wanna go home. I just want to be with my babies.’” Perez is a single father of three children.
Since having time to reflect after being sent home, Hilton said that’s when he came to the realization that “one of the most special things about this experience is that God presented Himself to me.”
“It was not a feeling. God presented himself to me. I grew up Catholic … but I was never a believer until now. God presented himself to me and then did something. Something that I could only call miraculous,” he said in the video through tears. “And I was very lucid. It was real and this has been life-changing. I’m so grateful. I’m excited to start taking the kids to church every week. And to just know that God is real. … I don’t have to hope to believe. I know now.”