Feel BetterCelebrity Health Scares: Dixie D’Amelio, Hailey Bieber and More Stars Who’ve Spoken Out

Bella Hadid

Bella has recently opened up about her struggle with Lyme disease, which she was diagnosed with in 2013.

“Living in this state, worsening with time and work while trying to make myself, my family and the people who support me, proud, had taken a toll on me in ways I can’t really explain,” she wrote via Instagram in August 2023. “To be that sad and sick with the most blessings/privilege/opportunity/love around me was quite possibly the most confusing thing ever.”

Tori Kelly

In July 2023, TMZ reported that Tory Kelly fainted while out with friends in downtown Los Angeles and was transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for treatment, where doctors found blood clots around her lungs and legs.
Sources told TMZ that Kelly’s condition is “really serious” as Tori has reportedly been “in and out of consciousness.”

Dixie D’Amelio

“Hey everyone, as a lot of you know I struggle with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and have issues with flashes and strobe lights,” the TikTok star and musical artist tweeted in July 2022, after cutting her Chicago concert short.

“At tonight’s Chicago show the moving lights accidentally went off and I started feeling extremely ill,” Dixie explained. “I tried to finish the set but I decided to leave stage early and get checked up by medics. I’m fine now and disappointed I wasn’t able to finish my set but wanted to let you all know what happened and that I’m [OK]. Thanks for all the well wishes and support.”

Additionally, Dixie revealed she was diagnosed with PMDD or premenstrual dysphoric disorder on Instagram Live in October 2022. PMDD causes some women to experience severe irritability, anxiety, depression and even suicidal thoughts leading up to their period.

“It really affects your moods and your behavior and many different parts of your life,” she explained on her Live. “I feel like I didn’t realize how much it was affecting me until I got to this point I was in last week.”

She added that her condition is “very obvious to see” in the next few episodes of her show, The D’Amelio Show on Hulu. “I have never been like, so low … and having no idea what was wrong with me was very alarming and I just felt like I had no control over my body or mind and I had no idea what was wrong but it would turn on and off like a light switch.”

Hailey Bieber

Hailey revealed that she has “a cyst on my ovary the size of an apple” in a November 2022 Instagram Stories post. “I don’t have endometriosis or PCOS but I have gotten an ovarian cyst a few times and it’s never fun,” she added. “It’s painful and achey and makes me feel nauseous and bloated and cramps and emotional.”

Months prior, the model spoke candidly about suffering from “stroke-like symptoms” in March 2022.

“They found I had suffered a very small blood clot in my brain, which caused a small lack of oxygen, but my body had passed on its own and I recovered completely within a few hours,” she revealed in an April 2022 YouTube video.

Louis Tomlinson

Following a New York show promoting his new album on November 12, 2022, Louis Tomlinson was rushed to the hospital after falling backstage.

In a statement posted on Twitter, the former 1D member wrote: “Thank you to everyone that’s listened to the new album so far, it means the world to me. The show last night in New York was incredible.”

“Unfortunately, on the way back I’ve managed to fall and break my right arm pretty badly,” he continued. “So I’m gutted to say I’ll have to reschedule the in-store signings next week. New dates will be announced very soon. Thank you for all your support and sorry to anyone who was coming next week. Louis.”

Mckenna Grace

In November 2022, Mckenna Grace shared on Instagram that she underwent surgery on her spine which has changed her life. “It’s been one month since my spine surgeon, Dr Skaggs at Cedars-Sinai literally changed my life,” she wrote.

“Social media only reflects what we want people to know-often we don’t see the ugly, hard, less-flattering sides of a person and their life. For me, it’s been easier to hide my struggles and insecurities and maybe write about them in songs, but that didn’t fix them,” the Ghostbusters: Afterlife actress continued.

“I’m def going to elaborate more about all of this because my life and who I am and want to be was truly changed, but for now … I want to thank Dr Skaggs and his team, his PA Morgan, his nurse Elaine and my incredible team of nurses (who deserve their own post later), my Mom& Dad who never left my side and my friends who showed me that they are here in the exciting/fun times, but would also be there in the absolute lowest moment of my life.”

Demi Lovato

Demi revealed that they accidentally cut their head the day before appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in a recent TikTok video. “Guess who hit their head on a crystal and has to get stitches before ‘Kimmel’ tomorrow???” Demi captioned the clip, in which they mouthed the word “f–k.”

Zendaya

Zendaya had an incident involving her finger and a kitchen knife on July 13, 2022. The Euphoria actress hilariously documented the incident, which led to stitches, on her Instagram Story. “This is why I don’t cook,” she captioned her post.

Ashton Irwin

5 Seconds of Summer’s drummer Ashton Irwin suffered stroke-like symptoms and was rushed to the hospital mid-show on June 26, 2022. Thankfully, he made a full recovery and has released a statement to fans explaining what happened, detailing he suffered a loss of vision and “stroke symptoms” after suffering an “intense” migraine caused by heat exhaustion and overheating.

Justin Bieber

In June 2022, Justin revealed he has been suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which has left half of his face paralyzed. In an Instagram posted by the “Peaches” singer, Justin shared details about his diagnosis to fans. “As you can see, this eye is not blinking,” he said before winking his other eye. “I can’t smile with this side of my face, this nostril will not move, so there is full paralysis in this side of my face.”

He also explained that his health was the reason why he had to postpone his upcoming shows. “I’m just physically, obviously not capable of doing them,” he explained. “This is pretty serious as you can see. I wish this wasn’t the case but obviously, my body is telling me I got to slow down and I hope you guys understand and I’ll be using this time to rest and relax and get back to 100 percentso that I can do what I was born to do.”

Austin Butler

Austin Butler revealed that his body “shut down” after filming for Elvis in an interview with GQ published in May 2022. “I woke up at four in the morning with excruciating pain. My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.”
The actor was diagnosed with a virus likened to appendicitis after immersing himself in the role so much that his body revolted.

Halsey

Shortly after receiving surgery for her endometrosis in April 2022, Halsey opened up about her health in an Instagram Story. The singer revealed they were diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Sjogren’s syndrome, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

“I’ve been looking for answers to the root cause of some of these things, which may be an autoimmune disease and I know I’ve had autoimmune issues for most of my life, especially having endometriosis,” she revealed. “I don’t want anybody to be worrying. I’m on a treatment plan right now. I’m really excited and I’m confident that I’ll be able to do it in a way that’s healthy, where I can perform my best for all of you.”

Selena Gomez

“My lupus, my kidney transplant, chemotherapy, having a mental illness, going through very public heartbreaks — these were all things that honestly should have taken me down,” Selena recalled during an August 2021 interview with ELLE. “Every time I went through something, I was like, ‘What else? What else am I going to have to deal with?’”

Alli Simpson

In January 2022, the songstress revealed that she had a “broken neck” after diving into a shallow pool a few months prior.

“Long story short — I dove into a shallow pool headfirst & hit my head on the bottom … on New Year’s Eve I got X-rays/CT Scans & an MRI to find I have 2 severe fractures in my neck (C6 & T1),” she wrote on social media. “I was sent straight to hospital in an ambulance to be assessed by a neurosurgeon⁣.”

Joshua Bassett

In January 2021, the actor recalled “getting very ill, and it kept getting worse.” He shared the real reason behind his hospitalization during a June 2021 interview with GQ.

“I thought it was, like, food poisoning or whatever. It got worse, it got worse, it got worse, it got worse,” he shared, noting that he felt “unimaginable pain” and was diagnosed with septic shock and heart failure. “[The doctors] told me that I had a 30 percent chance of survival. They told me that if I had not checked into the hospital within 12 hours, I would have been found [dead] in my apartment.”

Tom Parker

The Wanted band member revealed his cancer diagnosis in October 2020.

“Hey guys, you know that we’ve both been quiet on social media for a few weeks and it’s time to tell you why. There’s no easy way to say this but I’ve sadly been diagnosed with a Brain Tumour and I’m already undergoing treatment,” he wrote at the time. “We decided, after a lot of thought, that rather than hiding away and trying to keep it a secret, we would do one interview where we could lay out all the details and let everyone know the facts in our own way.”

KJ Apa

“A shard of metal got stuck in my eyeball,” the actor shared in a July 2020 Instagram video.

Ariel Winter

In May 2020, the actress sliced the tip of her thumb off.

“I had chopped four onions just before I chopped [my thumb]. Chopped four onions and it was great — I just got new knives too,” she told Access at the time. “So I went to chop a peeled tomato and sliced the top part of my thumb off on a peeled tomato.”

Ariel added, “I was so shocked. I was hyperventilating. I was like I should be crying but I just can’t believe it. I apparently sliced an artery. It bled so much. … Obviously, I was bleeding a lot but, again, it’s my thumb. Like, so many people are in [the hospital] for so much worse and I was like, you know, I was perfectly fine.”

Zac Efron

“Very thankful to everyone who has reached out,” the Disney alum posted on Instagram in December 2019. “I did get sick in Papua New Guinea but I bounced back quick and finished an amazing 3 weeks in PNG. I’m home for the holidays with my friends and family. Thanks for all the love and concern, see you in 2020!”

At the time, Australia’s Sunday Telegraph reported that he had been hospitalized with “form of typhoid or similar bacterial infection,” per Us Weekly.

Dylan O’Brien

While filming The Maze Runner: The Death Cure in March 2016, the former MTV star “broke most of the right side of my face” in an on-set injury.

“I’m all fixed up now,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune in September 2017 of the accident. “I feel really lucky to have come away from it — in terms of coming away from it at all on the day, and really how my face has healed. I was really lucky with a really brilliant doctor, and he salvaged a lot of what I used to look like. … To anybody who saw me after it happened, I think it’s really astonishing how well everything healed and how my doctors fixed me up.”