Tamar Braxton leaves "Dancing with the Stars" over "serious" health issue
"Dancing with the Stars" has lost another contender. But this time it wasn't an elimination. It's a health issue.
Celebrity contestant Tamar Braxton announced Wednesday that she's bowing out of the competition.
She posted a photo on Instagram, showing her in a hospital bed alongside her "DWTS" pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy. "With a Heavy heart I regret to inform you that my season of #dwts has to come to an end along with the rest of my tour dates with @musicbykem," she wrote.
The 38-year-old R&B singer revealed that her health condition is "serious," adding that she has "blood clots in both sides of my lungs."
"After yesterday's final #dwts performance I went back to the hospital (after the doctors didn't want me to leave in the first place) only to find out that I don't have pneumonia but something way more serious and that is having several P.E.'s (blood clots in both sides of my lungs)," Braxton continued. "As you all know I will be the first to always encourage anyone to push through any obstacle that comes along one's way. But in this case, my health is my current obstacle. .. And in TRUE #tamartian form I must go about this the exact same way as I would anything else."
Braxton's announcement comes just days after she was hospitalized. Still, she managed to compete on Monday's "Dancing with the Stars" episode, performing an individual dance.
