The Sopranos’ Jamie-Lynn Sigler was ‘almost killed’ after surgery complications
The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler has opened up about a horrifying ordeal in which she was left fighting for her life after suffering a reaction to surgery.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for her role in The Sopranos, has unveiled a harrowing ordeal she faced around a year ago where she almost died due to sepsis after surgical procedure.
The 43-year-old actress had visited India for a spiritual retreat and upon returning, had an alarming encounter with the life-threatening illness.
She candidly expressed on her MeSsy podcast: “A little less than a year ago now is when I went to India, and I lived in this ashram and I felt so awakened and connected and peaceful.”
Shockingly, the actress was stricken by sepsis that brought her perilously close to death shortly after arriving home.
She recalled: “And when I came home, two weeks later, I had a very bad reaction to a surgery and got sepsis and was in the hospital and almost died. I never told anybody this.”
In this terrifying moment, Jamie-Lynn experienced the deepest point of melancholy in her life, saying: “I had never in my life been more sad, felt more low.
“But what I learned from India was I had an inability to escape it.”
She sought help from friends and therapists, taking steps to process her emotions therapeutically. “I had to sit in it. I would scream into pillows; I would cry to girlfriends,” she revealed.
“I reached out, I sat by myself, I got a therapist. I did all of these things I had never really done before and went through this process that was absolutely necessary.”
In 2020, Jamie-Lynn spoke candidly about the “positive” aspects of living with MS.
The actress, who was diagnosed with the central nervous system disorder over two decades ago, has come to view her medical challenges as an integral part of her identity.
She told People Now: “I have my bad days, as we all do.”
Jamie-Lynn initially concealed her condition before publicly embracing it, adding: “For me it was about fighting it and keeping it a secret and covering it up.
“Then when I became public it was accepting people knew and now it’s shifted into this thing where…
“I think people don’t realise with chronic illness, it’s so much physical stuff but emotionally it can affect you even more.”
Reflecting on how her condition has shaped her, she added: “I’m realising all the things it has brought me, the positive things it had brought to me, who it has made me today I know I wouldn’t be without it.”