Jamie-Lynn Sigler nearly died around a year ago. The 43-year-old actress - who has multiple sclerosis (MS) - had a nasty reaction to surgery and a near-death experience after she battled sepsis upon returning home from a spiritual retreat in India. Appearing on her 'MeSsy' podcast, she recalled: “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.
“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.” Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.
The 'Sopranos' star never felt "more low" and recalled how she would "scream in pillows", weep to her friends and reached out and spoke to a therapist. She shared: “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.
“I had to sit in it. I would scream in pillows; I would cry to girlfriends. 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 shared how she has embraced the "positive" side of having MS. The screen star was diagnosed with the condition - which affects the central nervous system, disrupting the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body - more than two.