Tamar Braxton is hospitalized and hooked up to oxygen to be treated for the flu as she warns fans ‘It’s worse than COVID’
Tamar Braxton took to social media with a message for fans to take care of their health during the holiday season.
The 45-year-old Braxton Family Values star wrote that she was taken to a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia and put on oxygen while she was battling the flu.
Singer Toni Braxton’s younger sister added: “Please be careful… I wasn’t there much [of] people and have NO IDEA where it came from.’
Warning: Tamar Braxton took to social media with a message for fans to take care of their health over the holiday season as she battles the flu
“This is not an attention post…this is an ATTENTION post,” she began the statement on her 5.5. Millions of Instagram followers.
The lengthy caption continued, “I literally went shopping and Christmas fun with my best friends @normankgyamfi and @wardellmalloy [sh**] and THE NEXT DAY I had to be taken to the hospital by AMBULANCE, needed oxygen because I thought God would take me home because I couldn’t breathe and my chest was on fire!!’
In a carousel upload, the former reality TV personality included video of her shopping spree along with footage of her in a hospital bed.
Braxton remarked: “I have the FLU and let me tell you it’s worse than COVID in my opinion.”
Unwell: The Braxton Family Values star, 45, wrote that she was taken to a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia and put on oxygen
The singer-songwriter also updated her supporters on her treatment, adding, “I’m on 5 different medications.”
“I haven’t been with a lot of people and I have NO IDEA where it came from,” she noted of her health.
Braxton capped the post as she finished: “Enjoy your vacation AT HOME…You don’t want that. Oh yeah I’m in complete isolation because it’s contagious as hell. I really love you all.’
At the hospital where she was met by Married to Medicine star Dr. Jackie Walters was treated wearing a gray Adidas sweatshirt.
She pulled the hood over her head while wearing a blue disposable face mask and showed up with an oxygen tube in her mouth.
24 hours earlier: Tamar fell ill a day after feeling comfortable doing Christmas shopping with friends
The post garnered more than 48,000 likes and her mother, Evelyn Braxton, was among the commenters, writing, “I love you. Get well soon Tamar.’
Her former The Real co-host Adrienne Bailon added: “I am praying for a speedy recovery! Loving You…’
Back in October, the mother-of-one told E! News that she was in a good place in life.
“I’m happy in my career. I am happy with myself and my child. I am happy with my family. I do things that feed my soul and expand that safe, happy place that I’ve fought so hard for and nothing can faze me,” she explained.
Braxton co-parents their nine-year-old son Logan with ex-husband Vincent Herbert, to whom she was married from 2008 to 2019.
Before her health scare: Tamar enjoyed some holiday fun as she stuck her tongue out in a selfie