{"id":261867,"date":"2026-08-09T01:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261867\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T01:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:20:20","slug":"highlander-star-christopher-lambert-collapses-at-pittsburgh-comic-con-on-the-mend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261867\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Highlander&#8217; Star Christopher Lambert Collapses at Pittsburgh Comic Con, on the Mend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260808_f91ec22361b9458589d4e25a0a0a7edc\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:18cd0a81-618d-4229-acb5-7deb354037f1\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f91ec22361b9458589d4e25a0a0a7edc_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-Christopher-Lambert-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Highlander&#8221; star Christopher Lambert suffered a medical emergency at a convention Saturday and was whisked away by an ambulance, TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher was signing autographs at the Steel City Con in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania when he suddenly collapsed, a witness tells us. He was then transported from the convention hall via ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n<p>No worries here &#8212; a rep for the star tells TMZ he is &#8220;perfectly ok&#8221; and resting in his hotel room. They say he had not gotten sleep the night before and hadn&#8217;t eaten much during the day, which dropped his blood sugar.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260808_86a3626b6af44384b0c97da20086363f\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:18cd0a81-618d-4229-acb5-7deb354037f1\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/86a3626b6af44384b0c97da20086363f_md.jpg\" alt=\"sub-Christopher-Lambert-highlander-alamy-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if he will show face at the convention Sunday &#8230; it all depends on how he&#8217;s feeling. However, we&#8217;re told he is certain he will feel well enough to attend the FAN EXPO Chicago next week.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being known for his role as the immortal Connor MacLeod in 1986&#8217;s &#8220;Highlander&#8221; and its sequels, Christopher is known for playing Tarzan in &#8220;Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes&#8221; and the 1995 Mortal Kombat film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, he also had a bit of a scare last year when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/03\/13\/highlander-star-christopher-lambert-recovering-after-hotel-stairs-fall\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tripped on stairs<\/a> and injured his back. Fortunately, he made a full recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Highlander&#8221; star Christopher Lambert suffered a medical emergency at a convention Saturday and was whisked away by an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-261867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}