As he shares heartbreaking diagnosis, here’s all that’s gone on with Sam Vanderpump’s health

This week on Made in Chelsea, Sam Vanderpump gave a heartbreaking update about his ongoing health struggles. He revealed he has end-stage liver disease, and that there’s “no hope” his liver will recover on its own.

In sad scenes during MIC, he sat down with friends Ollie Locke and Tabitha Willett to tell them the news. He said: “We had a call from the doctors and I’ve got end stage liver disease. There is no hope of my liver getting better and he said I wouldn’t be having this call with you if I thought you could make it through the next four or five years. They’re sending me for liver transplant assessment, so yeah.”

Sam was keeping positive, and later added: “The way I look at it is I’m healthy now, hopefully I will remain healthy all the way up until I’ll get a call and go in for surgery and then I wake up and I’ll be healthier.”

Right now, Sam is on an organ donor list, awaiting surgery. He shared that if he waits on the list for too long, it may get to the point where he isn’t healthy enough to survive the surgery needed.

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Sam Vanderpump has previously spoken out about his ongoing health battle

This latest comes after Sam shared that in December, he nearly died after liver and kidney failure caused life-threatening sepsis. He was rushed to hospital with flu-like symptoms, after his fiancée Alice rang an ambulance when Sam became “delirious” having spent days in bed suffering from dehydration and severe back pain. Sam was told he might not have survived without her quick thinking.

Sam was told by doctors if he had been admitted to hospital just 24-hours later, it could have been too late to save him. His liver and kidneys had stopped working, and he needed urgent medical care. As his body fought off liver and kidney infections, he contracted sepsis.

Sam said: “I thought I was going to die. I didn’t think my body could cope and that was the scariest thing. It was terrifying. I remember the doctor saying to me that I was going into liver and kidney failure. I burst into tears. My mum didn’t react badly, you would expect her to be in complete meltdown, but she didn’t want to scare me.

“The words they used for the function of my liver were ‘deranged’ and ‘demonic’. You don’t feel your organs normally but when they stop working and because my liver and kidneys weren’t working my heart was in overdrive, my pancreas was struggling, my spleen wasn’t well.

“And you can feel all this pain and uncomfortableness, I was really, really fighting to keep myself alive. I didn’t think I was going to survive or see the outside of the hospital again.  You never think the flu will lead to you being in a hospital bed and nearly dying. They told my mum that if I had got to hospital 24-48 hours later, I wouldn’t have made it. By calling the ambulance, my girlfriend literally saved my life.”

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As a result of his sepsis, Sam developed jaundice which caused his skin and whites of his eyes to turn yellow. He also had a catheter fitted, because he was unable to pass liquids which led to severe water retention. His stomach swelled hugely, and Sam recalled this making him look “like he was pregnant”. He added: “It was so painful, so uncomfortable.” He also lost 15kg in weight in just eight days.

Sam has since explained was born with liver and kidney disease which has laid dormant his entire life. He is now an ambassador for The UK Sepsis Trust.

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