- Sandra Lee, known as Dr. Pimple Popper, disclosed she suffered a life-altering stroke last November while filming the second season of her Lifetime series.
- She initially experienced symptoms she mistook for a hot flash, including sweating, restlessness, and shooting pains in one leg, which she initially dismissed.
- The following morning, Lee woke up to find the left side of her body incapacitated, accompanied by slurred speech and difficulty enunciating.
- Her father insisted she go to the emergency room, where an MRI confirmed she had suffered an ischemic stroke, caused by a blood clot cutting off blood supply to the brain.
- Lee, a physician herself, expressed shock at the diagnosis, stating that a part of her brain had died as a result of the stroke.
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