JoJo Siwa reveals ‘excruciating pain’ landed her in hospital

JoJo Siwa has given an update on her health after being admitted to hospital in ‘excruciating pain’ due to a ‘ruptured’ ovarian cyst.

“To make a long story short, every time I danced or even walked in the last few days, like with everything, I got a really bad pain in my stomach,” 22-year-old Siwa explains. through TikTok on Saturday, November 29. “And I don’t know why, but it just passed, and so I thought, ‘Oh, maybe it’s that time of the month, maybe it’s a cramp, I don’t know.'”

Her latest bout of stomach pain struck at the worst possible time, as Siwa was scheduled to perform at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota on Friday, November 28.

Siwa’s fans became concerned when she revealed via Instagram that she was “in the hospital” shortly before the show was due to start.

In her TikTok clip, Siwa recalled trying to take a nap before the Mall of America showed up, hoping to sleep off the pain — though she soon felt even worse.

“I lay down, I closed my eyes and thought, ‘I can’t breathe,’” she recalled.

Siwa then tried sitting in her hotel bathtub to see if it would relax her muscles, only for the pain to intensify again.

“That made it a hundred times worse,” Siwa said. “I was inside [the bathtub] for maybe four minutes, and suddenly I thought, “I have to get out immediately.” because I knew I was going to black out and I felt like I was going to throw up.

Now in severe pain, Siwa allowed her mother, a dance instructor, to help her Jessalynn Siwaknew how bad she felt and they decided to have her examined. She recalled that the 9-1-1 medics initially “didn’t really know what was going on” because her vital signs were “normal.”

However, doctors at a local hospital eventually discovered that “one of [her] There was an ovarian cyst that burst and bled [her] stomach.”

“That caused the excruciating pain – every time the blood moves in your stomach, that’s bleeding in the stomach,” Siwa told her TikTok followers. “It’s brutal pain. Long story short: [the issue] should turn itself. It has to stop on its own.”

Siwa thanked the medical staff for getting her out of the hospital “within two hours.” could still perform her new festive single “Message to the World (Little Drummer Girl)” at the Mall of America.

“Today we’re going to work and we’re going to dance again. I’m afraid how this dance will affect me because I’m going to dance, but it’s only for an hour. We’re going to do it,” she explained. “We’ll continue pushing, and if I throw up or experience excruciating pain again, I’ll have to go back in immediately, but I’ll be fine.”

The Celebrity Big Brother Britain The star assured her fans that she was “doing well” on Saturday, but that she was still far from feeling “100 percent”. Siwa also confirmed that she planned to have the cyst checked again next week.

Her health issues occurred just over a month after a major relationship milestone for Siwa and her boyfriend. Love Island UK. star Chris Hughes. They made their red carpet debut at the Dancers Against Cancer’s Gala of the Stars 2025 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on October 21.

Hughes, 32, surprised Siwa at the gala by presenting her with the Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work with cancer charities.

“The Humanitarian Prize is incredible,” he said exclusively We weekly at the event. “So to come here tonight, and have a little involvement and be able to present her with the award, it’s really special. It was an easy flight to get to JoJo, to see the family and to see everyone here.”

Siwa and Hughes started out as friends while they were both performing Celebrity Big Brother Britain earlier this year. They made their romantic relationship public in June.

“It’s not platonic anymore, and it’s been a beautiful development, a beautiful connection, and I’m absolutely head over heels for him and he’s the same way,” Siwa shared. The Guardian in an interview published on June 2.