R&B star Tamar Braxton has revealed that she nearly died after experiencing a frightening health episode that resulted in several injuries over the weekend.
The Grammy-nominated singer — one of the Braxton sisters — wrote in an update to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday that a friend found her “in a pool of blood” with a fractured nose, some lost teeth and mobility issues on Sunday.
“I struggled to write this but everyone keeps calling me and honestly, I can’t even really talk anymore I’m so weak,” she wrote.
She later continued, “As the days go by the worse it is. … 💔💔the way I look at life now is totally different. As my health is on the mend my mental journey begins… pray for me for real 💔💔💔💔I don’t even know what happened to me 💔💔.”
While it’s unclear what led to the health scare, Braxton shared a post with the text “Thank you God for waking me up today” just hours ahead of the update.
Braxton has previously been open about her health, telling People magazine in 2021 that she “chose to change” her life after surviving a suicide attempt the year prior.
At the time, her then-boyfriend, David Adefeso, found her unresponsive while she was at her home with her son Logan (whom she shares with former husband Vincent Herbert) back in July 2020.
“That time of my life was so dark and so heavy,” she told the magazine. “I didn’t see how I was going to come out on the other side. I didn’t even know that there was another side.”
She later continued, “Most people think, ‘Oh, she went to a hotel, probably took a bunch of drugs, was on a binge.’ It didn’t happen like that. It was just everyday life, trying to figure out how to get through the day and then …”
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In December 2022, she revealed that she was taken to the hospital after experiencing flu-like symptoms, noting that she couldn’t breathe and her chest was “on FIRE” at the time. She described the experience as worse than having COVID-19 before advising her followers to “be careful” during the holidays.