‘I Thought God Was Taking Me Home’

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Tamar Braxton is opening up a couple of health-related emergency she skilled amid the vacation season.

On Friday, the TV persona shared an replace on Instagram, telling her followers that she was rushed to the hospital after spending a while together with her buddies forward of Christmas.

“This isn’t an attention post… this is an ATTENTION post,” she wrote. “Literally I was with my best friends @normankgyamfi and @wardellmalloy shopping and doing Christmas fun s— and the VERY NEXT DAY I had to be taken to the hospital by AMBULANCE, needed oxygen cause I thought God was taking me home cause I could not breathe and my chest was on FIRE!!”

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Braxton, 45, continued, “I was taken to @northsidehosp and was met by the BEST nurses and doctors including @therealdrjackie to find out what’s wrong.”

“Yall, I have the FLU 🤦🏽‍♀️ and let me tell u it’s worse than COVID in my opinion,” she defined. “I’m on 5 different medications 😩..please be careful.. I wasn’t around a lot people and have NO IDEA where it came from.. enjoy y’all holiday AT HOME.. u don’t want this🤦🏽‍♀️ .. oh yeah I’m completely isolated cause it’s hella contagious 😷 I love y’all for real ❤️.”

One clip from the publish reveals Braxton laughing whereas hanging out together with her buddies seemingly previous to the well being scare. In one other selfie, Braxton might be seen sporting her masks whereas sitting in a hospital mattress.

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Her mom Evelyn Braxton, 74, responded to the publish by commenting, “Love you. Get well soon Tamar. ❤️.”

In 2020, Tamar was hospitalized after being discovered unresponsive in her room on the Ritz-Carlton resort in downtown Los Angeles, based on a number of reviews. She later revealed in a prolonged and uncooked assertion on Instagram that she had tried suicide after struggling “pain” for the previous years whereas working within the leisure business as a actuality star.

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This 12 months, Tamar returned to actuality TV after becoming a member of The Surreal Life on VH1, telling E! Online in October, “Here we are introducing to the world Tamar 2.0 and I think that you’re really going to enjoy this one.”

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“On Braxton Family Values and all of those dramatic shows, it was another side of me,” she mirrored on her previous TV appearances. “It was me being the unsolicited advice sister who always did that. And it was the more emotional executive wife who wanted attention.”

Noting that she is now “mature, healthy and ready to conquer the world,” Tamar added, “I’m happy in every sense of the word.”

“I’m happy in my career. I’m happy with me and my child. I’m happy with my family,” mentioned Tamar, who shares 9-year-old son Logan with ex-husband Vince Herbert, 49. “I do things that feed my soul and extend that safe, happy place that I fought so hard to be in and nothing can knock me off.”