“So I got in the bathtub and I was in it for maybe four minutes, and all of a sudden, I was like, ‘I have to get out immediately’ because I knew I was gonna black out and I felt like I was gonna throw up.
“And so I got out immediately, I ran to the couch and I just lay down. I called my Mom and I was blacking out. And so as soon as I was done blacking out, I called my Mom and I was like, ‘Hey, it’s actually really bad. I think I need you to come up here’.”
Siwa’s mother Jessalynn Siwa rushed to be with her daughter, and because JoJo Siwa was in so much pain, she needed her help to dress before the emergency services arrived.
The medics did not know what was wrong with the Celebrity Big Brother 2025 star after “they took vitals” – which were “normal” and they asked Siwa if she wanted to go to hospital to be checked out, to which the media personality agreed.
Siwa then told her fans in the health update video: “[One in hospital], we said [to doctors]: ‘Look, obviously if something is like we, we need emergency surgery, wrong or something like, obviously there are other options, but there is a lot of people at the Mall of America waiting and counting on this performance.
“And, obviously, there’s something life-threatening, like, we can postpone, we can figure it out, we can push it even later. We’ll figure it out.”
“I was like, if it’s an option for me to be out of here by 11am and that was my Dad [Tom] saying that to them because he knew that is what I wanted to communicate, but I was in so much pain that I couldn’t communicate.”
After the “pain meds started to kick in”, Siwa felt better and was “dancing in my hospital bed” before an ultrasound revealed the cyst had “burst and was bleeding into my stomach”.
After medics told Siwa that the issue “should resolve itself”, the star – who got “a lot of peace of mind” after being told about her burst cyst – returned to the Mall of America to perform for her fans.
Siwa “should be okay” but would need to go immediately back to hospital if the pain – caused by the “blood in the belly” – continues.
The star – who is thankful for the “amazing” doctors for getting her out of the hospital “within two hours” – captioned the TikTok video with: “Thank you for all the well wishes, grateful for the Doctors and Nurses for working so fast and helping me get back on time, keep it pushing.”
On Friday, Siwa took to Instagram and shared footage of her lively performance at the Mall of America, and sang a series of tracks, including her new Christmas song, a cover of Message To The World (Little Drummer Girl).
