Macy Gray suffers Ozempic emergency ON-AIR after speaking out about ‘painful’ side effects of the weight loss drug
Macy Gray was rushed to the hospital in a wheelchair after her Ozempic injection left her short of breath and unable to walk on the latest episode of MTV’s The Surreal Life: Villa of Secrets.
After previously revealing that the diet drug had left her with painful constipation, the 56-year-old I Try singer suffered further complications that caused such distress that production rushed her to the emergency room.
Macy started talking about her symptoms, saying she was having shortness of breath and difficulty moving.
She said, “It’s really hard to catch my breath. This sucks because I’m all the way here in Colombia and I just want to give it my all, but I just feel horrible and I just want it to go away.”
“This isn’t good,” she continued. “I can’t even walk much without getting out of breath.”
Macy Gray was rushed to the hospital after her Ozempic injection caused complications
The 56-year-old singer was pushed to the emergency room in a wheelchair after complaining of shortness of breath
Macy was immediately examined by the show’s doctors and security personnel.
“The last time I felt like this, I had to go to the hospital,” she said. “I’m just tired.”
After assessing Macy, the doctor announced, “You’re taking medications that can affect your pancreas. Your pancreas can’t fight.”
After the doctor advised Macy to go to the hospital for a checkup, she was wheeled to the emergency room in a wheelchair.
Meanwhile, in the villa, Chet Hanks revealed to the other celebrities that Macy had been to the hospital.
“She went to the hospital,” he said. “She didn’t eat.”
“I know why,” said X Factor alumnus Ally Brooke. “It’s the picture. That’s what happens, that’s literally what happened to my friends.”
Ally continued in her confessional, “I’m familiar with the Olympic craze and I’ve definitely heard about the side effects that Macy is experiencing… so I feel for her.”
Macy shared her symptoms, saying, “I can’t even walk much without getting out of breath”
Macy explained in her confessional that she sought out Ozempic to help shift some weight ahead of her tour across the country. Pictured in 2022
Macy opened up about her Ozempic use on last week’s episode of The Surreal Life, also sharing her struggles with the side effects.
Speaking to co-stars Kim Zolciak and Johnny Weir about her uncomfortable ordeal, she said, “Oh man, my stomach hurts. I’m just really constipated.
‘I took Ozempic. I can’t go to the bathroom and I’ve been awake all night.’
Kim, 46, a former Real Housewives of Atlanta star, joked at the time: “Ozempic does that.”
“It hurt last night,” Macy said, to which Kim warned her, “You have to be careful, you know.”
Macy added: “I’m going on tour after this, so I wanted to lose the weight really quickly.”
Macy explained in her confessional that she reached out to Ozempic to lose some weight ahead of her tour across the country.
She said: ‘I’m actually a bit of a vain person. I’ve put on a lot of weight over the last few years and this is exactly when everyone starts talking about this Ozempic.
So I thought, okay, I’m not doing it the right way, let me see if I can get one of those Ozempic.
I actually tried to pull it off [the weight] ‘For the show, because I didn’t want to be super fat on TV, but now we’re here.’
Ozempic contains the active ingredient semaglutide and although it is considered an anti-diabetic drug, it is used by some people for weight loss.
The drug works by mimicking a hormone that the body uses to tell us that our stomach is full and we should stop eating, suppressing our appetite and slowing down overall digestion.
However, this can also activate the so-called gastrocolic reflex.
This essentially means that the stomach sends a signal to the brain to make room for it later, as a large amount of food has already been consumed.
This signals the colon and rectum to empty their contents.
But if the digestive process is not fully completed, which is more common with an artificial signal such as with drugs like semaglutide, this can lead to explosive diarrhea.