{"id":580344,"date":"2026-04-03T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580344\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:28:09","slug":"perez-hilton-needs-emergency-surgery-following-21-day-hospitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580344\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez Hilton needs \u2018emergency surgery\u2019 following 21 day hospitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perez Hilton\u00a0needs \u201cemergency surgery\u201d for a \u201cmassive\u201d blood clot just weeks after his <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/23\/celebrity-news\/perez-hilton-reveals-medical-emergency-that-landed-him-in-hospital\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">21 day stay in the hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The blogger gave the concerning update in and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWpkXvLCdKF\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Instagram video Thursday<\/a>, speaking from a hospital bed in Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe caught this early,\u201d he assured his fans before explaining that an extreme pain in his leg led doctors to discover the blood clot. <\/p>\n<p>Perez Hilton\u00a0revealed he needs \u201cemergency surgery\u201d for a \u201cmassive\u201d blood clot in an Instagram video Thursday (seen above). theperezhilton\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The concerning health update comes weeks after his 21 day hospitalization. theperezhilton\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to the surgeon today \u2014 really good timing \u2014 and last night I started having real soreness and pain in one of my legs. This morning, it was way worse. I couldn\u2019t even walk I had to use my walker,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>From there, his surgeon sent him to the hospital to get an ultra sound where they quickly discovered what was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a deep vein thrombosis\u201d Hilton revealed. \u201cI am so thankful to God that we caught this early because if that blood clot had gone to my lungs or my heart, it could have been real bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hilton (pictured here in the hospital last month) explained that he was sent to the hospital by his  surgeon after extreme pain in his leg left him unable to walk. theperezhilton\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>After an ultrasound, doctors discovered the journalist (seen above in the hospital last month) had a deep vein thrombosis and send him in for emergency surgery.  theperezhilton\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo tomorrow I\u2019m having a thrombectomy where they\u2019re knocking me out, I\u2019m being put under in an emergency surgery and they\u2019re going to remove the fully occluded blood clot, which is massive. It goes from my groin to about my foot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll update you guys when I can. See you on the other side,\u201d he concluded, asking his fans for prayers. <\/p>\n<p>Also in the clip, the journalist noted that he already saw some of the same nurses that took care of him during his <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/22\/celebrity-news\/perez-hilton-hospitalized-after-mysterious-health-scare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">21 day hospitalization last month<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so thankful to God that we caught this early because if that blood clot had gone to my lungs or my heart, it could have been real bad,\u201d he said. theperezhilton\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>He asked his fans for prayers and told them he would give and update as soon as he can. theperezhilton\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Hilton \u2014 born Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. \u2014 landed himself in the hospital after taking flu medication on an empty stomach for a week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy stupidity landed me in the hospital for 21 days. It was the worst and best thing that\u2019s ever happened to me,\u201d he\u00a0said in a YouTube video\u00a0posted on March 23, in which he described the \u201ccrazy saga\u201d after being released. <\/p>\n<p>Hilton was taken to the hospital after an ulcer left him unable to walk. <\/p>\n<p>During his stay, he underwent two major operations because doctors found he also had a perforation in his body.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Hilton landed himself in the hospital after taking flu medication on an empty stomach for a week.  theperezhilton\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>He developed an ulcer before doctors found a perforation and he developed sepsis in the hospital. theperezhilton\/instagram<\/p>\n<p>Hilton then developed sepsis in the hospital which prolonged his stay. <\/p>\n<p>Even after he was sent home from the hospital, he noted he was \u201cnot 100%,\u201d\u00a0but vowed to take his health scare as a learning lesson to slow down his lifestyle. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to have dinner with my kids and my mom every night from now on,\u201d he pledged.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perez Hilton\u00a0needs \u201cemergency surgery\u201d for a \u201cmassive\u201d blood clot just weeks after his 21 day stay in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,20164,362,75,24379,34347,2856],"class_list":{"0":"post-580344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-celebrity-illnesses","12":"tag-celebrity-news","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-mens-health","15":"tag-perez-hilton","16":"tag-surgery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}