Perez Hilton Says He ‘Can Finally Walk Again’ Following Emergency Surgery, Weeks After Being Hospitalized for Sepsis
Perez Hilton Says He ‘Can Finally Walk Again’ Following Emergency Surgery, Weeks After Being Hospitalized for Sepsis
Desiree AnelloWed, April 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC
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Perez Hilton walking again; Perez Hilton at "One Night for One Drop"Credit: Perez Hilton/Instagram; Denise Truscello/Getty -
Perez Hilton shared that he can “finally walk again” after undergoing emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his leg
“Though the pain is still very pronounced, I can tolerate it,” he said on social media
The media blogger was first hospitalized in early March with an ulcer he got as a result of taking flu medication without food, after which he developed an ulcer, a perforation and sepsis
Perez Hilton is back on his feet, weeks after he was hospitalized with severe sepsis.
More than two weeks after he shared photos of himself in a Las Vegas hospital with an ulcer he got as a result of taking flu medication without food, the media blogger, 48, shared that he “had to be admitted again with a deep vein thrombosis on my right leg.”
Deep vein thrombosis occurs when a blood clot forms in one or more of the deep veins in the body, often in the legs, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“On Friday, my cardiovascular surgeon removed the most MASSIVE, fully occluded blood clot — it went from my groin to just below my calf,” Hilton explained in an April 7 social media update. “Hours after my thrombectomy, my doc came to visit me and said he wanted me to walk.”
So, after weeks of being bedridden, Hilton shared a video of himself taking a few slow steps with the help of an aluminum walker.
“I can finally walk again,” he wrote over the clip of himself slowly making his way across the room before giving himself a round of applause and holding back tears. “Glory be to God! The pain is still BOLD but manageable.”
As for why his doctor advised him to start walking again? Hilton explained that they were worried about his “blood coagulating” and contributing further to the problem that got him there in the first place.
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“I walked, and it was the most excruciating pain of my life,” he admitted in the caption. “I was discharged Saturday and had to cancel the beautiful Easter Sunday I had planned, because I was hurting that badly.”
Perez Hilton in the hospitalCredit: Perez Hilton/Instagram
“Thank GOD that I can finally walk again — slowly,” he added. “And, though the pain is still very pronounced, I can tolerate it — and do this all without meds. Amen!! Every day will get easier and I will get stronger!!! And so it shall be!”
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Perez Hilton in the hospitalCredit: Perez Hilton/Instagram
In a March 23 video shared to YouTube, Hilton explained how his "stupidity" landed him in the hospital after days of taking flu medication without food — resulting in the development of an ulcer, a perforation and sepsis.
“People die of sepsis,” Hilton said while holding back tears. “The day before I was hospitalized, I was in so much stomach pain. I was like, ‘This is weird, but it will go away.’ The next morning, I couldn’t walk. I had to be taken by ambulance to the hospital.”
After five days in the hospital, Hilton underwent laparoscopic surgery to get rid of some of the infection, after which he underwent “another major procedure” to drain fluid from his lungs.
“The sepsis just kept working and my body kept falling apart,” he said. “It was such a slow process. I mean, two weeks of just sickness and then another week of getting better before I was released. The last week was hell."
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