T-Boz Addresses ‘Ignorance’ Surrounding Her Medical Emergency

Now that T-Boz, aka Tionne Watkins, is home from the hospital following a medical emergency, she’s decided to deal with the misinformation that is been spreading concerning the traumatic event.

August 24 her band TLC announced “experienced sudden and severe nausea, vomiting, and severe abdominal cramps” after a performance in Toledo, Ohio, two days earlier.

Watkins was taken to the hospital and officially diagnosed with an “abdominal obstruction,” prompting TLC to cancel and postpone several upcoming shows.

In the times that followed, rumors about what led to the medical emergency circulated online. On August 28, the rumors became so loud that Watkins took to Instagram publish a video demystifying “ignorance”.

She began the video by thanking those that supported her for “all the love.” She then quickly turned her attention to gossip.

Even though the general public has been informed, Watkins said, “I would never put my company on such a big show, but I think since I missed out on the shows, it needs to be said, but I just don’t think it should be that specific because I don’t like the people in my company — and I don’t like all the attention.”

The “Unpretty” singer noted that she has struggled with sickle cell anemia and typically keeps “a ton” of instances where she’s handled complications under wraps. She added that this latest emergency had nothing to do with the chronic blood disorder.

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She continued, “It had nothing to do with constipation. No, I’m not on Ozempic. Everyone and every celebrity is not on Ozempic, and I just want to say that this ignorance is just, like, discouraging to me.”

“People have died from what I just went through,” she explained. “It could happen to any woman who has had a C-section, fibroids, or any abdominal surgery. It was scar tissue. It had nothing to do with what I ate. It had nothing to do with the inside of my intestines. It was the outside.”

She also explained that the blockage happened when scar tissue from a previous surgery the 24-year-old underwent began to “bang together” or twist round her intestines as they moved through the body.

“And it just blocked it. That’s it,” she said, adding: “It’s very painful and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.”

According to Mayo Clinicmost individuals who’ve had some kind of abdominal surgery can have scar tissue, also referred to as abdominal adhesions, and consequently could also be in danger for developing a bowel obstruction. At the identical time, black women in America have higher rate of cesarean sections than every other racial groupwhich put them at even greater risk of what Watkins experienced.

In her video, Watkins urged the general public to “stop associating everything that has to do with my name with sickle cell anemia… I am Tionne Watkins. I just have a disease that is not who I am and not everything that I am.”

She stated, “Everything that’s happening to me has nothing to do with sickle cell anemia.”

At the tip of the video, she stated that she was “blessed and working again.”