JoJo Siwa has supplied an replace on her well being after being hospitalized in “excruciating ache” for a “burst” ovarian cyst.
“So lengthy story quick, each time that I’ve been dancing for the final couple of days and even simply strolling, like something, my abdomen would simply actually, actually damage,” Siwa, 22, defined by way of TikTok on Saturday, November 29. “And I don’t know why, nevertheless it simply type of handed, and so I used to be like, ‘Oh, perhaps it’s that point of the month, perhaps it’s a cramp, I don’t know.’”
Her newest bout of abdomen ache struck on the worst attainable time as a result of Siwa was scheduled to carry out on the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Friday, November 28.
Siwa’s followers have been apprehensive when she revealed by way of Instagram that she was “within the hospital” shortly earlier than the present was supposed to begin.
In her TikTok clip, Siwa recalled attempting to take a nap earlier than the Mall of America look in hopes of sleeping off the ache — although she quickly felt even worse.
“I laid down, I closed my eyes, and I used to be like, ‘I can’t breathe,’ ” she remembered.
Siwa subsequent tried sitting inside her resort bathtub to see if it might calm down her muscle tissues, just for the ache to accentuate as soon as once more.
“That set it off 100 occasions worse,” Siwa mentioned. “I used to be in [the bathtub] for perhaps 4 minutes, and unexpectedly I used to be like, ‘I’ve to get out instantly.’ as a result of I knew I used to be gonna black out and I felt like I used to be gonna throw up.”
Now in extreme ache, Siwa let her mother, dance teacher Jessalynn Siwa, understand how dangerous she was feeling they usually determined to get her checked out. She recalled that 9-1-1 medics initially “didn’t actually know what was improper” as a result of her vitals have been “regular.”
Nonetheless, medical doctors at an area hospital finally found that “one in all [her] ovaries had a cyst on it that burst and was bleeding into [her] abdomen.”
JoJo Siwa in March 2025. ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP; Getty Pictures
“That’s what was responsible for the excruciating ache — anytime that the blood in your abdomen strikes, that’s the bleeding within the abdomen,” Siwa instructed her TikTok followers. “It’s brutal ache. Lengthy story quick, [the issue] ought to revolve itself. It ought to cease by itself.”
Siwa thanked the medical workers for getting her “out of the hospital inside two hours” so she might nonetheless carry out her new festive single “Message to the World (Little Drummer Woman)” on the Mall of America.
“Right this moment, we’re gonna go to work and we’re gonna dance once more. I’m afraid how this dance is gonna have an effect on me as a result of I’m going to be dancing, nevertheless it’s solely going to be an hour. We’re going to do it,” she defined. “We’re going to maintain it pushing, and if I vomit or if I’ve that excruciating ache burst once more, I’ve bought to go instantly again in, however we must be OK.”
The Superstar Massive Brother U.Okay. star assured her followers that she was “doing all proper” on Saturday, however was removed from feeling “100%” but. Siwa additionally confirmed that she deliberate to get the cyst checked once more subsequent week.
Her well being troubles occurred simply over a month after a serious relationship milestone for Siwa and her boyfriend, Love Island U.Okay. star Chris Hughes. They made their purple carpet debut on the Dancers In opposition to Most cancers’s 2025 Gala of the Stars on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on October 21.
Hughes, 32, shocked Siwa on the gala by giving her the Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work on behalf of most cancers charities.
“The Humanitarian Award’s unimaginable,” he completely instructed Us Weekly on the occasion. “So, to return right here tonight, and type of have a small involvement and capable of current her with the award, could be very particular. It was a simple flight to return over to see JoJo, to see the household and to see everybody right here.”
Siwa and Hughes began off as buddies whereas they have been each showing on Superstar Massive Brother U.Okay. earlier this yr. They went public with their romantic relationship in June.
“It’s not platonic anymore, and it’s been an attractive improvement, an attractive connection, and I’m completely head over heels for him and he’s the identical manner,” Siwa instructed The Guardian in an interview revealed on June 2.
