Dr Sandra Lee, the dermatologist best known to television audiences as 'Dr Pimple Popper,' has revealed she suffered an ischemic stroke in November while filming Season 2 of Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out at her clinic in Upland, California. Speaking to People magazine in an interview published Tuesday, the 53-year-old said the stroke temporarily halted production on the Lifetime series and left her confronting the fact that 'part of my brain died.'
Lee has built a large following through her skin surgery videos online and her original series Dr. Pimple Popper, which turned her into one of reality TV's most recognisable doctors. The spin‑off, Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out, follows Lee as she treats patients with severe or unusual skin conditions, often while juggling the pressures of filming, clinic work and her own public profile. It was during shooting for the show's second season late last year that she began to notice something was wrong.
