Zsa Zsa Gabor Critically-Ill Following Fall & Hip Replacement Surgery
Listen up, America: A Hollywood icon could use our good vibes….
Zsa Zsa Gabor is in critical condition and not responding to human contact nearly a week after a painful fall in her Bel-Air home, her ninth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, said Friday.
Gabor, now 93, underwent hip replacement surgery on Monday after breaking several bones when she fell from her bed last Saturday afternoon. The screen star had been attentively tuned into her favorite television program — Jeopardy! — when she reached over to pick up the ringing telephone. That’s when she tumbled to the the floor.
After her operation at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, Gabor’s doctors reported the procedure was successful and they were happy with the results. While the surgery was successful in treating her broken hip, Gabor suffered a concussion as a result of the fall. Though she is not in a coma, given her advanced age, doctors are concerned that her condition will worsen.
“The doctors want to observe her over the weekend to make sure her condition improves, but right now it is not looking good,” Von Anhalt told Reuters this afternoon.
Despite von Anhalt’s claims, Gabor’s daughter denies that her famous mother is critically ill and unresponsive.
“My mother is not in critical condition or at death’s door,” Gabor’s daughter Constance Francesca Hilton assured the public in a statement just moments ago. “She is not in a coma. She is not on any kind of death watch. She is responsive and on medications. All vital signs are still going strong, and she is talking.” Hilton is the step-sister of Barron Hilton, the grandfather of celebutante sisters Paris and Nicky Hilton.
Gabor starred in such films as Moulin Rouge, Lili, and Touch of Evil, and was one of three glamorous Hungarian sisters who stole the Hollywood limelight in the 1950s and 1960s.
Zsa Zsa remains hospitalized in Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where she has been receiving treatment since Saturday. She had been bedridden since sustaining serious injuries in car crash eight years ago. She suffered a stroke in 2005.
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