United Kingdom, March 5 -- Billy Porter says he was "dead for three days" amid his sepsis battle.

In September 2025, the 56-year-old actor pulled out of playing the Emcee in the Broadway production Cabaret after being diagnosed with a "serious case" of the life-threatening illness, where the body's extreme response to an infection causes inflammation, which can damage organs and tissues.

And now Billy has shared that after a "routine check", doctors discovered a kidney stone "trapped in my urethra" caused him to develop a type of sepsis called urosepsis, which begins in the urinary tract and travels to the kidneys.

On the latest episode of the Outlaws with TS Madison podcast, the performer shared: "When they got in there, there was so ...