Playboy model Jenna Jameson says she 'wheeled' herself 'out of the hospital' after nine months of not receiving a proper diagnosis for mysterious illness
Jenna Jameson recently claimed she broke herself out of the hospital last year.
After suffering from a 'rare disease' and failing to get a proper diagnosis following nine months in the hospital, the Playboy model, 49, recalled deciding to take matters into her own hands.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight published on Wednesday, the former adult film actress stated: 'I put myself in a wheelchair and I wheeled myself out of the hospital.'
Last year, she said she suffered from a mysterious illness, which saw her condition deteriorate to the point that she was unable to walk.
During her stay at the hospital, she said the doctors 'could not put their finger on what it was' and had even told her at one point that she had only one year to live.
Making a break for it: Jenna Jameson, 49, claims she broke herself out of the hospital last year after suffering from a 'rare disease' and failing to get a proper diagnosis following nine months in the hospital
'When I was first told that I didn't have very long to live, I think I just balled up,' she said. 'I didn't really know how to digest that.
'I finally got to the point where I was like, "I have to take my health into my own hands",' she continued. 'I knew that I still had so much life left to live.'
During her chat, she also delved into the specifics of what she was facing last year.
'It started very suddenly,' she recalled. 'I was doing very well and then I just started collapsing and lost my ability to walk and they admitted me into the hospital.'
She estimated that she spent around nine months in the hospital and during that time, she was diagnosed 'with a multitude of things'.
Jameson even received treatments — which she explained were not improving her condition at all — for autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome and blood cancer.
'I wasn't seeing any progression,' she explained as to why she finally decided to leave the hospital. 'I wasn't feeling better.'
After about nine months, the television personality — who will be appearing in A&E's upcoming docuseries, Secrets of Penthouse — explained, 'I was just feeling stagnant.'
Nine-month hospitalization: During her stay at the hospital, she said the doctors 'could not put their finger on what it was' and had even told her at one point that she had only one year to live
Mysterious illness: She said that she spent nine months in the hospital, and was diagnosed 'with a multitude of things.' Jameson received treatments — which she said didn't help — for autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barré syndrome and blood cancer
'They were just testing me and taking blood, and I just felt terrible,' she added.
'I think a lot of it was the emotional aspect of being sequestered, and nobody's coming to see you, and just not know what's going around you,' she continued.
'I just decided — good or bad — I'm getting out of here, and I'm going to go at it holistically,' she said.
Since then, she said she is doing much better overall and has finally regained her ability to walk.
She also explained that she was having 'a lot of memory issues' due to her health scare, but they have now improved.
'I was having a lot of memory issues and I lost years and years and years of my life,' she recalled.
'I started going to a cognitive therapist that puts you through puzzles and all these things, and everything just started reconnecting,' she shared.
She also explained that changing up her diet — to which she had also previously attributed her recent dramatic weight loss — played a key role.
'I feel myself coming back to life when I eat correctly, keto wise,' she shared. 'I feel energetic.'
Alongside a ketogenic diet, she also shared that she does intermittent fasting.
Improving day-by-day: Since then, she said she is doing much better overall and has finally regained her ability to walk. She also explained that she was having 'a lot of memory issues' due to her health scare, but they have now improved
Feeling better: She said that re-introducing new eating habits greatly improved her condition after 'coming out of the hospital and being on so many medications that they had me on'
'Intermittent fasting, for me, what it does is it kind of resets my metabolism,' she told the outlet.
She explained that re-introducing those two eating habits greatly improved her condition after 'coming out of the hospital and being on so many medications that they had me on'.
'Once I started intermittent fasting, I felt all of my nerve endings starting to fire up again,' she said. 'I finally feel like sunshine again.'
Although she is doing better, she said regarding her current condition: 'I don't think I'm at 100 percent. I think I'm running under about 75 percent.
'I mean, coming from a 10 percent, I'm feeling really good,' she continued. 'I'm training every other day. I'm eating perfectly.
'I also have a great partner," she said about her wife, Jessi Lawless — with whom she tied the knot with in May. 'I am married and I'm just really happy.'
In mid-August, she took to her Instagram account to clarify rumors about her drastic weight loss in the past year.
'A lot of people are addressing my weight loss. I'm just minding my health,' the newly-married blonde bombshell — who was sporting a purple bikini in her post — shared.
After fans speculated she was taking popular weight loss drugs to shed pounds, she explained that she had simply started a ketogenic diet again.
Grateful: 'I also have a great partner," she said about her wife, Jessi Lawless — with whom she tied the knot with in May. 'I am married and I'm just really happy'
Drastic difference: In mid-August, she took to her Instagram account to clarify rumors about her drastic weight loss in the past year
Mostly diet: 'A lot of people are addressing my weight loss. I'm just minding my health,' the blonde star shared
New look: The nude model was in a purple bikini top when she made her comments
'I am back to keto,' she revealed. 'It makes me feel the best, and I'm doing a little bit of intermittent fasting, so the weight is falling off.'
For most of 2022, the star suffered from a mystery illness that limited her mobility and required her to use a walker.
However, she seems to be much better now and is not taking any kind of medication, she shared on August 14.
She was initially incorrectly diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome in January 2022.
For the rest of the year, her health was up and down, but she has started regaining her mobility.
'I mean, I'm not walking perfectly but at least I'm up on my feet,' she wrote via Instagram at the time. 'How cool is that? Feeling a lot better.'
Her diet history is famous. In 2018, she lost 80lbs by going on a Keto diet. But then she gained 20lbs back in 2019 when she went off the diet a bit.
While Jenna — who has four-year-old daughter Batel Lu with her partner Lior Bitton — admitted her recovery was 'messy' and 'not fun', she said she likes 'a good challenge'.
Before and after: 'I am back to keto. It makes me feel the best, and I'm doing a little bit of intermittent fasting, so the weight is falling off,' the star explained
Her metamorphosis: For most of 2022 the star suffered from a mystery illness that limited her mobility and required her to use a walker. But she seems to be much better now and is off any kind of medication, she shared on her Insta Stories Monday
A pinup: This summer she has been posting bikini photos to Instagram
'I am fighting,' she said. 'I am kicking a**. I am taking names, and soon I will be back up on my feet unaided.
'And life will be back to normal,' she continued. 'I mean, as normal as I can be.'
In June, she revealed she married girlfriend Jessi Lawless on May 23 in Las Vegas.
Jameson and her now-wife, 40, said their nuptials at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas, People reported.
'I found the person that I truly should have always been with,' Jameson told the outlet.
She also revealed that chapel was also the same one her parents tied the knot in when they wed.
She walked down the aisle to the song Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash with Lawless' dad — since Jameson's father had passed away.
Jameson sported a white mini dress with a veil and pink platform heels, rocking pink dyed hair, and Lawless donned a black suit, per the outlet.
Previously: Jameson posted this snap of herself using a walker back in March
Almost 20 years ago: The model seen in 2006 during VH1 Big in '06 at Sony Studios in Culver City, California
They had hired a Johnny Cash impersonator and rented a neon green Lamborghini for the day.
She also said that she is planning on legally changing her last name to Lawless before adding that they will have a bigger wedding in the future.
'I try and go over in my mind why I ever dated or married men, and it's selfish and bad to say, but I think my driving force was children,' she revealed.
'And now that I've really found myself, I'm just accepting of everything that I feel inside and don't shove everything done,' she said to People.
The pair first met via TikTok after Jameson discovered Lawless' page and developed a crush on her.
'I was like, "Who is this Jenna Can't Lose?" [Jameson's TikTok handle]. 'It's Jenna f*****g Jameson. Oh my God,' Lawless recalled to the outlet about seeing Jameson's comments on her posts.
'I was crushing on Jessi for a long time because she's quite large on TikTok and I love TikTok,' Jameson explained.
'I just scroll at night when I'm trying to calm down, and I just loved her perspective on things,' she added. 'I related to it.'
The latest: Jameson married girlfriend Jessi Lawless on May 23 in a Las Vegas ceremony
She added: 'So I just started mass commenting her trying to get her attention, and it seemed to have worked.'
Lawless has over 1.5 million followers on TikTok; on her website, she describes herself as a barber, former platform artist for Oster Professional and an entrepreneur.
However, Lawless had a girlfriend at the time and didn't pursue Jameson, due to her 'moral compass.'
After Lawless' relationship with her girlfriend ended, she responded to Jameson's comments. They began dating in January 2023.
