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Dr. Pimple Popper Sandra Lee’s changeable has near nan celebrated dermatologist moving much slow and having “a small much problem speaking” months aft she suffered nan startling aesculapian emergency.
The Lifetime prima elaborate nan semipermanent broadside effects of her November 2025 changeable during an question and reply pinch People published Wednesday.
“It’s nan first clip successful my life that I’ve thought, ‘You person kids, are you going to beryllium present for them? Are you going to unrecorded to spot your grandkids?'” Lee, 55, told nan outlet.
“They could spot that I was stepping slower and that I had a small much problem speaking,” she added. “But I don’t dwell connected it aliases make them worried. I conscionable thin to beryllium like, ‘I’m OK.'”
Lee and her hubby of 26 years, Jeffrey Rebish, stock teenage sons Stratton and Chance. She revealed that her youngest boy near for his first twelvemonth of assemblage weeks earlier she suffered nan changeable past year.
However, Lee’s activity and reside aren’t nan only semipermanent broadside effects nan “Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out” reality prima has experienced, arsenic she elaborate really nan changeable besides impacted her body.
“The full changeable has benignant of weakened my body, I consciousness like, aliases made maine consciousness a batch older much quickly,” she shared.
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Still, Lee has managed to support herself progressive by playing pickleball, play and classical guitar.
On Tuesday, nan dermatologist and tegument crab surgeon revealed she suffered an ischemic changeable while filming Season 2 of “Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out” past November.
She told People really she knowledgeable “what [she] thought was a basking flash” earlier getting “super sweaty” and not emotion for illustration herself.
“What fundamentally happened is, I had a portion of my encephalon that died. It was conscionable a shock,” the erstwhile TLC prima recalled. “As a physician, I couldn’t contradict that I had slurred speech, that I was having weakness connected 1 side, but I was like, ‘Well, this is simply a dream, right?’ More for illustration a surviving nightmare.”
Lee went connected to stock that she doesn’t for illustration not having “total control” of her near manus because nan grip isn’t arsenic strong.
“If I consciousness for illustration I’m not astatine my champion — it’s very scary,” she said.
As for why Dr. Pimple Popper publically announced her wellness ailment, Lee said it was to bring consciousness and erase nan stigma that often comes pinch strokes and akin wellness scares.
“They don’t show group they’ve had a stroke because it tin beryllium seen arsenic a motion of weakness,” she explained. “I want to get nan connection retired that if you person symptoms for illustration I had, make judge you spot your doctor. Take attraction of yourself.”
Besides nan semipermanent broadside effects she mentioned, Lee is “pretty overmuch backmost to normal” astir 5 months aft nan scary attack.
She’s besides recovered a glimmer of dream aft months of beingness and occupational therapy.
“Maybe it’s really bully that it happened past because this is simply a modulation clip wherever we’re trying to attraction much connected ourselves,” Lee said of her and her husband.
“So possibly it really happened astatine a amended clip if it was going to happen, conscionable truthful that I could attraction much connected myself and effort to get things taken attraction of,” she concluded.
