Some stars have continued to open up about their health battles - including with something as serious as septic shock. According to the Mayo Clinic, sepsis is a serious condition in which the body improperly responds to an infection, causing the organs to work poorly. In August 2025, Bringing Up Bates star Erin Bates went into septic shock after giving birth to her seventh baby, Henry. "Erin developed a severe UTI and kidney infection, which sent her into septic shock," Bates' husband, Chad Paine, wrote via Instagram. "She is currently still in the ICU as doctors continue to treat, diagnose and search for answers. We would covet your prayers for this beautiful girl who is such a light in a dark world. We are holding onto God's promises." Erin Bates' Septic Shock Battle After Childbirth: What We Know So Far Bates ended up suffering a seizure before eventually starting to regain her strength. "With tears in our eyes, we are praising the Lord that we are on the road to recovery," Paine wrote via Instagram in September 2025. "Your prayers have definitely touched heaven." Keep scrolling to learn more stars who have battled sepsis: Erin Bates The Bringing Up Bates star went into septic shock in August 2025 after developing a "severe UTI and kidney infection" following the birth of her seventh child, Henry. Bates suffered a seizure before slowly getting "on the road to recovery." Billy Porter In September 2025, Porter ended his run on Broadway's Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club due to a "serious case of sepsis." "Billy Porter must also withdraw from the production," a statement shared via the show's social media account read. "His doctors are confident that he will make a full recovery but have advised him to maintain a restful schedule." Amelia Gray Hamlin After getting a nipple piercing, Lisa Rinna's daughter ended up developing a serious infection from it while at a party at Coachella. "[Amelia] was up on a balcony, somebody pushed her, kind of like, pushed her forward, and her boob went into a bush," Rinna recalled on her and husband Harry Hamlin's "Let's Not Talk About the Husband" podcast in September 2025. "And it, like, jammed the nipple into the boob, and then she came home that night and all of a sudden she had a super high fever and her boob was this big." Erin Bates' Husband Reads Her Emotional Letter From Kids Amid Health Scare Rinna claimed that Amelia's "boobs swelled up to this humongous size" after she visited an urgent care facility and got X-rayed. "We didn't know what to do, so we called an infectious disease doctor. She had to go to the infectious disease doctor!" she explained. "She had sepsis in her freaking boob. ... She punctured something when she went into the bush, and she had sepsis and she had to be on IV antibiotics for a week. It was actually very dangerous, guys. It was dangerous. Anyway, they're out now." Vicki Gunvalson Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for WE tv In August 2024, Gunvalson revealed that she had sepsis and only had a "10 to 20 percent" chance of survival. On an episode of her "My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast," Gunvalson recalled to her boyfriend, Michael Smith, that she went to the hair salon "as usual" earlier that day. "So I got to the office ... I had a client coming in and she said I was talking gibberish and I wrote an email out and the email didn't make sense," she explained, noting that the client was a "retired ER physician" who noticed something was off. "He got up and told [Michael's daughter] Olivia that I was possibly having a stroke, we didn't know. I don't remember anything and [Olivia] took me to the hospital." The Real Housewives of Orange County star said she was misdiagnosed at the ER with a sinus infection and was discharged that night. (Gunvalson previously had a sinus infection, but seemed to be "doing better.") Celebrity Health Scares Through the Years After getting discharged, Gunvalson was taking a bubble bath and "passed out" in it. "I walk in and she's pretty much passed out," Smith recalled, describing "one of the scariest" moments of the incident. "I grabbed her, pulled her out of the water, put her in bed. The doctor said she just needed to sleep, so I put her in bed and she slept literally 13, 14 hours straight." When Gunvalson woke up she was disoriented, so Smith brought her to the emergency room again where they found she had a "massive infection." "It was actually sepsis, but it was pneumonia," he explained. "And what happened - and I'm no doctor, but when they explained it - is that when your body is fighting that big of an infection and that dangerous of an infection, your whole body attacks it, which affects the brain and everything else in your body because your body sends everything it has to fight it." Gunvalson "doesn't remember much," and still has a lot of "trauma" from the experience. "I cry a lot," she said. "And Michael keeps saying, 'Why do you keep crying?' I don't have an answer. I mean, rewind a week ago, we were in Barcelona