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The Tony and Emmy winner made a recent appearance on Ts<\/a> Madison\u2019s Outlaws podcast, where he shared that the infection got so serious that he ended up in a coma that left him \u201cdead for three days.\u201d<\/p>\n Porter\u2019s health challenges were first revealed in September 2025 when Cabaret<\/a> cut its Broadway run short after the Pose<\/a> star withdrew from the production as he recovered from a \u201cserious case of sepsis,\u201d according to the production at the time.<\/p>\n Now, he\u2019s detailing his months-long health battle, which started when he initially contracted a urinary infection during his Cabaret run on the West End in London from January to May.<\/p>\n \u201cThe medicine in the U.K. is trash,\u201d he said. \u201cFour rounds of antibiotics and 10 to 12 weeks later, it\u2019s a kidney infection with kidney stones. Fast forward,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Billy Porter is getting candid about just how brutal his battle with sepsis was. The Tony and Emmy winner made a recent appearance on Ts Madison\u2019s Outlaws podcast, where he shared that the infection got so serious that he ended up in a coma that left him \u201cdead for three days.\u201d Porter\u2019s health challenges were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2315019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2315018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Billy-Porter-Says-He-Was-Dead-for-Three-Days-During.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315020,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315018\/revisions\/2315020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}