After disappearing for weeks, Perez Hilton is back with a terrifying story to share and more details about his near-death experience. In a raw YouTube video, he opens with a line that pretty much sets the tone for everything that follows: “My stupidity landed me in the hospital for 21 days.”
The experience was scary, but he’s able to see the positive side, saying, “It was the worst and best thing that’s ever happened to me.” What started as the flu spiraled quickly. After taking medication for a week without food, he says he developed “an ulcer… then a perforation and then sepsis,” adding bluntly, “people die of sepsis.”
By the next morning, things had gotten so bad, he says, “I couldn’t walk,” and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Doctors ran test after test trying to find the internal tear. “There’s this hole inside of me… where is it?” he recalls thinking.
After days of uncertainty, he underwent surgery where doctors used cameras to “literally flip around all of my organs” while dealing with “so much infection.”
He describes multiple procedures, fluid near his lungs, infections picked up in the hospital, and one especially scary moment when “rapid response came because my heart got out of control.”
At one point, he says, “I hadn’t eaten in over two weeks… everything was through IV.” The experience wasn’t just physically brutal; it was humbling. He opens up about “a lot of accidents in the bed,” calling it “humiliating,” while also praising the nurses who helped him through it.
According to Hilton, it became a spiritual experience. “God presented himself to me,” he says, explaining that after years of questioning his faith, “I don’t have to hope to believe. I know now.”
© GettyHis family also became the center of everything. He calls his mom “the true VIP,” saying she was there “every single day,” and shares one of the most emotional moments of the experience, finally getting clarity about whether his late father would have accepted him. “I was born on March 23rd, 1978. And growing up gay in Miami to Cuban parents in the 80s and 90s was not hard,” he explained.
“So I asked my mom if she knew if my dad knew I was gay when he died. My dad died when I was 15 years old. And my mom said she knew I was gay, but that my dad didn’t know. And I was like, “Are you sure?” She’s like, ‘Yeah, he had no idea.’ And then something that’s always lingered and gnawed at me was this feeling that would my dad have accepted me and not shunned me if he had lived?”
Hilton says his mom assured him he would and reminded him of family members before him, “who are gay and Cuban and their parents did not abandon them. “I felt such a weight off my shoulders. And that was one of the most healing moments of my life because my father and I were at the hip. Growing up, I wasn’t a mama’s boy. I was a dad’s dude. My father and I were inseparable,” he added.
Now back home, but still recovering, Hilton says he’s making changes. “I used to only sleep four to five hours a night… I am going to force myself… to sleep 8 hours,” he says, adding that he wants to focus more on everyday moments with his kids.
Hilton said he’s still on IV antibiotics, healing, and offered advice for so people don’t have the same problem, “take medication with food… don’t end up like me.”
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