Vicki Gunvalson He has a fair side of health problems for years.
On August 2024, The Real Housewives of Orange County Alum made the headlines for his health when he revealed that he was diagnosed with a “fatal” infection And have a “10 to 20 percent” chance to live.
“There’s a lot of time missing in my life because I’m going, like, Amnesia,” says Gunvalson during a period of “My friend, my soulmate, my podcast” At the time, he didn’t go to the hair salon “as usual” earlier that month. “There were about an hour or two I lost, and I didn’t know where I was. So I went to the office, and I wrote a client talking and I wrote an email I didn’t know.”
Finally, Gunvalson was taken to ER and had a “great infection.”
“It’s actually sepsis, but it’s pulmononia,” Gunvalson’s boyfriend, Michael Smithmean. “And what happened – and I didn’t have a doctor, but when they explained it – so if your body fights an infection, your whole body attacks all your body because your body has to fight it.”
Gunvalson made a perfect recovery, but almost a year ago, in July 2025, Gunvalson claimed to be contracted a parasite While he was in Morocco for The real housewives on the last trip of girls.
“My stomach ruined, I’m not good. I feel tired,” he said at a stage of Sirius XM’s “Jeff Lewis live.” “Where I am now, me, ‘Why do I feel slow?’ I don’t go poop. Like, it’s very hard for me. “
Continue scrolling to find out about Gunvalson’s health struggles for many years:
Diagnosed with a tumor in the ear as a child

Steve Lodge and Vicki Gunvalson
Goodwill to Vicki Gunvalson / InstagramWhen Gunvalson was young, he was diagnosed with a tumator in the room called the Coloredom and forced to undergo surgery to obtain the tumor. While it worked for many years, in 2018, Colleges returned and he had to go through another operation.
“Having a blockage taken from my inner ear caused by Kolesteatoma,” The Reality Star wrote Via Instagram With a picture of her lying on the hospital bed next to her ex steve lodge. “I hope to go back to the office this afternoon. I’m glad to have my driver @stelelodge_oc with me 😊❤️.”
His plastic surgery
Since his debut of Rhoc In 2006, Gunvalson was opened about his plastic operation, which included many facelifts, botox, fillers, nose work, nose raising.
In 2018, Gunvalson shared Entertainment tonight He told Lodge that he “became” with plastic surgery.
“I promised Steve that I was done. I did because it was,” he said.
That he took his matrix

On November 2021, Gunvalson shared he “has cancer” and he has “Full f *** ing itus from study.”
“(I) by af *** in the hard time now,” he added Jeff Lewis “by Jeff Lewis live” podcast.
A few months ago, Gunvalson explained that he had a perfect hysterectomy, but it was due to “Cancer cells in (his) matrix and cervix.”
“They took it – no chemo, no radiation,” he told Page six On February 2022. “It’s not a year of war, like their mistakes. It took two years.”
A ‘fatal’ infection
Gunvalson shares August 2024 that he was diagnosed with a “fatal” infection and has a lower chance to survive.
Even though he had amenesia from that day, Gunvalson said he went to the hair salon “as usual” and then in his office, where he began to “talk to” gibberish. ” Since the client is a “retired doctor,” he noticed that something was told by Olivia’s daughter “tend to have a stroke.”
“I don’t remember anything and (Olivia) I took to the hospital,” he said a period of “my friend, my soulmate, my podct,” adding that he ended up with a sinus infection.
Smith said he returned home and Gunvalson took a bubble bath.
“I walked and he had many dead,” he remembered. “I was arrested at him, pulled him out of the water, lying down on her. The doctor said she just had to go to bed, so she was sleeping in reality 13, 14 hours straight.”
Smith thought Gunvalson had a stroke because he was experienced when he was awake, which brought him to carry an exam room.
“He has a big infection,” Smith explained. “It was actually sepsis, but it was pneumonia. 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, your whole body attacks it, which affects the brain and everything else in your body because Body Sends Everything It has to fight it. “
It’s a lot of time processing “trauma” from what happened.
“I cry too much. And Michael continues to say, ‘Why are you going weeping?’ I don’t have an answer, “he shared, smith ensures fans that Gunvalson” is better “and” good. “
Contracted a parasite

In July 2025, Gunvalson claimed that he believed he developed a similar parasite as Brandi Glanville After returning from a 2023 holiday in Morocco for The real housewives in the last girls work together.
“My stomach ruined, I’m not feeling well,” he said at a stage of “Jeff Lewis’s Siriusxm.” “I feel tired. Where am I now, I’m like, ‘Why do I always feel slow?’ I don’t go poop. Like, it’s very hard for me. It can be once a week, if that’s. It’s a pellet to go out. “
Gunvalson said he went through the treatment of colonics “three times a week” and told his gut was “full of parasites.” Doctors put him in Ivermectin – but it says “not killing” the parasite.
“We’re all sick of our go to Morocco,” he said. “It’s four years and face by Brandi – he got a parasite. It moves. It’s going into his mouth. It’s bad.”