Billy Porter has gotten candid about how brutal his battle with sepsis was.
The Tony and Emmy Award winner recently appeared on TS Madison’s Outlaws podcast, where he shared that the infection became so serious that he ended up in a coma that left him “dead for three days.”
Porter’s health challenges were first revealed in September 2025 when nightclub The Broadway run was cut short after antiquities The star withdrew from the production after recovering from a “serious case of sepsis,” according to production at the time.
Now he’s detailing his months-long health battle, which began when he initially developed a urinary tract infection during his birth. nightclub It runs in London’s West End from January to May.
“The medicine in the UK is just rubbish,” he said. “Four doses of antibiotics and 10 to 12 weeks later, she developed a kidney infection with kidney stones. Quickly, they finally gave me the medicine. It seemed to go away.”
However, after he returned to the United States and began rehearsals for the Broadway production nightclub“Kidney stone pain [came] behind.”
“By Tuesday, I checked myself into the hospital because I was in so much pain,” Porter recalled, trying to hold back tears. “They went for a routine checkup. They saw that kidney stones were trapped in my urethra… They put a stent in, redirected the urine, [and] He attacked me with real antibiotics. Not that weak shit. Then enter through my penis and burst my kidney stones.
Porter was hoping his condition would start to improve from there, but things took a turn for the worse.
“When they got there, there was a lot of pus, bile and infection behind the stone. Blisters appeared, and I had a UTI in minutes,” he recounted, adding that he was then hooked up to a life support machine. “I’ve been dead for three days. I’m a miracle. I’m a walking miracle.”
The actor continued: “When I woke up, they told me that my leg had gone into compartment syndrome, which is when muscles close in on themselves and cut off oxygen. So they had to cut me off on both sides of my leg while I was in the coma, and from my knees to my thighs, and left it open for two days so they could save my leg.”
Ported said he’s grateful he’s doing better now, adding: “I’m so grateful to be here. It’s a gift.”
He previously told fans in December in an Instagram video that he was “on the road to a full recovery. I’m not there yet, but I’m on the way there” after a “very tough four months.”
Urosepsis is a serious type of sepsis, a condition in which the body responds incorrectly to an infection, according to the Mayo Clinic. Urosepsis, specifically, is a severe complication of a urinary tract infection (UTI) where the infection spreads to the bloodstream.
