'Dr. Pimple Popper' Sandra Lee had a stroke last fall. Here's how the TV doc is bouncing back

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Last fall, “Dr.Pimple Popper” suddenly became a patient herself.

Dr.Sandra Lee, the reality TV dermatologist and surgeon known for tackling ick-inducing skin situations on camera, had a bad day a week before Thanksgiving 2025 while she was taping new episodes of her show at her Upland office.“I had what I thought was a hot flash.

I got super sweaty and didn’t feel like myself,” she told People in an interview published Tuesday.She said she finished the shoot and then headed to her parents’ nearby home, where that evening she experienced shooting pains in one leg and later had trouble navigating down a flight of stairs in the middle of the night.

Entertainment & Arts Katy Perry’s rep says Ruby Rose’s allegations that the pop star sexually assaulted her at a club in Australia nearly 20 years ago are ‘categorically false.’When she awakened the next day, she said, her left side wasn’t working properly and she was having trouble speaking clearly.It was definitely more than a hot flash.

Her doctor dad — also a dermatologist — told her to get herself to an ER, where she had an MRI that showed evidence of an ischemic stroke, where a vessel supplying blood to the brain gets obstructed.The diagnosis was a shock.

“As a physician I couldn’t deny that I had slurred speech, that I was having weakness on one side,” she said, “but I was like, ‘Well, this is a dream, right?’” Lee, 55, said unmanaged cholesterol levels and high blood pressure were likely contributors to the stroke, plus the stress of balancing her real-life practice with the demands of “Dr.Pimple Popper.” She returned to production in January, she said, though she was more than a little freaked out.“I don’t like that I don’t have total control of my left hand or the grip wasn’t as strong.

If I feel like I’m not at my best — it’s very scary,” Lee said.Science &...