Perez Hilton Hospitalized as Gossip Blogger Reveals Sepsis Diagnosis
Posted on: March 23, 2026, 11:42h.
Last updated on: March 23, 2026, 12:03h.
- Gossip blogger Perez Hilton nearly died from sepsis following a week of untreated stomach pain
- Flu meds taken without food caused a perforated ulcer and a massive internal infection
- Hilton credits the staff at Las Vegas’ Southern Hills Hospital with saving his life
Perez Hilton was hospitalized in Las Vegas for three weeks for a case of sepsis he appeared barely to survive. The infamous rumor-peddler revealed his hospitalization in an Instagram post over the weekend that showed him breathing shallowly into an oxygen mask. A separate post showed him in a hospital gown that was opened to expose incision marks on his stomach.
Hilton, who relocated from L.A. to Vegas in January 2023, created a media event by not revealing the reason for his hospitalization until Monday morning, his 48th birthday, in a YouTube video he titled “My Stupidity Got Me in the Hospital for 21 Days.”
Here it is…
“Before I was hospitalized, I had the flu for about a week,” Hilton explained the video, shot once he returned to the home he shares with his mother and three children. “I took my medication for the flu for a week. However, I didn’t take any of my medication with food. I never have. And you’re supposed to.”
Hilton said his “stupididy” caused damage that grew from an ulcer, to a perforation and then sepsis.
“The day before I was hospitalized, I was in so much stomach pain, I was like, ‘This is weird, but it’ll go away,’” he said. “The next morning, I couldn’t walk.”
Hilton was rushed by ambulance to Southern Hills Hospital, and had nothing but praise for the care he received there.
“I’m so thankful for the care that I got there, so thankful for everybody in every department. The first few days were a lot of pain and constant tests, X-rays, CT scans, ultrasound, because they couldn’t find where the perforation was.”
After five days, he says, he says he had exploratory laparoscopic surgery “to literally flip around all my organs, trying to find the perforation,” and then washing his insides out, “because I had so much infection in there.”
Post-surgery, doctors drained fluid that built up around his lungs. Another “major procedure” followed, draining “a ton of more infection in me.”
The sepsis continued its onslaught, however.
“One night, (the) Rapid Response (Team) came because my heart got out of control,” he said. “They had to put me on heart medications.”
Then he developed another infection from the hospital.
At the two week mark, Hilton said, he hadn’t eaten, so they inserted a feeding tube.
Revelation
“One of the most special things about this experience is that God presented himself to me,” Hilton said. “It was not a feeling. God presented himself to me.”
Hilton said he grew up a gay Cuban Catholic kid in Miami in the ’80s.
“I was baptized, had my communion, confirmed, went to Jesuit school for seven years, but I was never a believer until now.”
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