Vicki Gunvalson details terrifying health crisis that led to amnesia: ‘I had a 10 to 20 percent chance of survival’

Vicki Gunvalson detailed the “deadly” health crisis she suffered earlier this month that caused her to “miss a lot of hours” of her life.

The “Real Housewives of Orange County” star revealed on Monday’s episode of “My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast” that she suddenly developed amnesia.

“It was like I was missing for an hour or two and I didn’t know where I was,” she said, adding that she began speaking “incoherently” to a client who came into her office.

The client in question was a retired doctor who told her boyfriend Michael Smith’s daughter, Olivia, that the Bravolebrity “might be having a stroke.”

“I don’t remember anything and [Olivia] “They took me to the hospital,” he said.

Gunvalson, 62, said doctors ultimately misdiagnosed her with a sinus infection and she was discharged from the hospital the same night. She took antibiotics, but Olivia insisted on calling her father home to take care of the reality star.

“She was lethargic and didn’t really understand where she was,” Michael said on the podcast. He explained that doctors diagnosed her with a sinus infection “very hastily” even though they were told Gunvalson had recently recovered from a sinus infection.

Doctors were called in after Michael described one of the “scariest” moments of her health crisis, in which he found her “largely unconscious” in a bubble bath.

“I grabbed her, pulled her out of the water, put her on the bed. The doctor said she just needed to sleep, so I put her on the bed and she literally slept for 13, 14 hours straight,” he recalled, adding that he rushed her back to the hospital when she woke up confused.

“He had a massive infection. It was actually sepsis, but it was pneumonia,” Michael explained, “and what happened … is that when your body is fighting an infection this big and this dangerous, your whole body attacks it, which affects the brain and everything in your body because your body is trying to fight it off.”

The Coto Insurance founder became emotional when she recalled that a neurologist told her she had “10 to 20 percent [chance of survival],

“I cry a lot, and Michael is always saying, ‘Why do you keep crying?’ I have no answer to that,” she said, fighting back tears. “I mean, a week ago, we were walking 16 miles in Barcelona [to] We were having the best time of our lives walking 20,000 steps, and three days later, [I’m in the hospital],

Michael reassured fans that Gunvalson’s health was improving.

“She’s going to be OK,” he said. “She’s coming out of it.”