Rick Ross is opening up about about a March 2018 health scare that put him in the hospital for four days.
The Miami rapper suffered a seizure while at his home. He'd had them before due to abusing codeine, alcohol and other drugs, but the one that night was the most severe.
In an excerpt obtained by PEOPLE from Ross' upcoming memoir titled "Hurricanes," the Maybach Music Group CEO details the event.
"I’d caught a cold the day before and had a bad cough. I’d been taking DayQuil and using Vicks VapoRub all day. When I went to bed that night I had a seizure. But I didn’t come out of it the way I usually do. My breathing was all fucked up. At around 3:30 in the morning the girl I was with went downstairs and told Tomcat I had shit myself and was foaming at the mouth.
A few minutes later I was able to get myself out of bed. I still wasn’t breathing right but I got into the shower to clean myself off and try to get myself together. When the paramedics and police arrived I had Tomcat turn them away. I’d been through this before. I’d be straight. But then I started coughing up blood in the shower. That had never happened before.
At that point Tomcat said I needed to go to the hospital. Short Legs came and took me to the closest one, where the doctors discovered I had aspiration pneumonia. Something had gotten into my lungs while I was having the seizure and caused an infection. I was sedated and hooked up to a breathing machine."
Ross says he's now living a healthier lifestyle.
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