told TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\nLambert was then placed in an ambulance and transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
The Steel City Con also released a statement about the incident, saying Lambert \u201chad to leave the event due to a personal issue.\u201d <\/p>\n
Christopher Lambert (seen above at the Chiller Theatre Expo in April) suffered a medical emergency while attending the Steel City Comic-Con in Pittsburgh. Getty Images<\/p>\n
TMZ reported that the actor (seen above in January) collapsed while signing autographs for fans. Corbis via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The comic book and pop culture convention also announced that Lambert\u2019s photo op was canceled.<\/p>\n
A rep for the \u201cMortal Kombat\u201d star told TMZ that he is \u201cperfectly ok\u201d and resting in his hotel room.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson claimed that Lambert did not get enough sleep the night before the convention and hadn\u2019t eaten much during the day, which prompted his blood sugar to drop.<\/p>\n
Lambert (seen above in 2025) was placed in an ambulance and transported to a local hospital. Getty Images<\/p>\n
A rep for the \u201cMortal Kombat\u201d actor (seen above in 2024) told TMZ that he is \u201cperfectly ok\u201d and resting in his hotel room. Getty Images<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s unclear whether Lambert will attend the convention on Sunday; however, the outlet was told that he will be well enough to make his scheduled appearance at FAN EXPO in Chicago next week.<\/p>\n
Page Six has reached out to Lambert\u2019s rep for comment but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n
Last year, Lambert suffered a health scare when he injured his back after falling down a flight of stairs at his hotel.<\/p>\n
Last year, Lambert (seen above in 2025) had to cancel an appearance after injuring his back during a fall. SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n
He is best known for his role as Connor MacLeod in \u201cHighlander.\u201d (Pictured: Beatie Edney and Lambert in 1986.) \u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n
Due to the severity of the injury, the \u201cHighlander II: The Quickening\u201d star had to drop out of an appearance at the Swedish festival SciFiWorld last March.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an actor, filming and promoting his films are an absolute priority and has always been, and while he has the highest respect for people organizing events and fans who attend,\u201d his reps said at the time. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately this time he will not be able to attend the comic con,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHighlander\u201d actor Christopher Lambert suffered a medical emergency while attending the Steel City Comic-Con in Pittsburgh. At the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[28267,6491,2755,15101,96,2248,4440,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-732672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-comic-con","tag-entertainment","tag-hospital","tag-mens-health","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}