Overview
- The former X Factor judge and N-Dubz singer said a Bell’s palsy attack caused minor facial paralysis, with symptoms expected to ease within about a week after she started steroids within 24 hours.
- She said surgeons removed three facial cysts that had been linked to swelling and earlier flare-ups, and she described herself as now “cyst/swell free.”
- She said the attack followed medication side effects and pressure from vomiting, compounded by severe stress after learning a close friend has aggressive cancer.
- She canceled a planned egg retrieval because of a low egg count and said she is two months cigarette-free after what she called hellish nicotine withdrawal.
- Bell’s palsy is a usually temporary facial nerve weakness often treated with steroids, and Tulisa was first diagnosed in 2020 according to prior coverage.