Selling Sunset’s Vanessa Villela reveals that she missed filming half of the show’s fifth season due to long COVID: ‘I’m still dealing with it’
Selling Sunset’s Vanessa Villela missed filming half of the show’s upcoming fifth season due to COVID-19.
The 43-year-old real estate agent revealed that she tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before the fifth season was set to start production in August.
‘Out of 11 weeks of filming, I was sick for five. I got COVID in August and we started filming right in that moment, so obviously they couldn’t wait for me,’ the former telenovela star told Page Six.
Health struggles: Selling Sunset’s Vanessa Villela missed filming half of the show’s upcoming fifth season due to COVID-19
She continued, ‘I had a very strong COVID case. My case, it’s still going actually.
‘It’s called long COVID. I’m still dealing with it.’
Vanessa joined the cast of the hit Netflix reality show along with fellow newcomer Emma Hernan in season four, which premiered on November 24.
New cast: Vanessa joined the cast of the hit Netflix reality show along with fellow newcomer Emma Hernan in season four, which premiered on November 24
Scary: The 43-year-old real estate agent revealed that she tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before the fifth season was set to start production in August
Immediately after wrapping the fourth season, the cast including Jason and Brett Oppenheim, Chrishell Stause, Christine Quinn, Mary Fitzgerald, Heather Rae Young, Maya Vander, Davina Potratz, Amanza Smith began shooting season five.
Netflix greenlit the fourth and fifth seasons back in March but a release date for the fifth season has yet to be announced.
Vanessa told Page Six that audiences will see how the illness impacted her work on the show.
Ongoing illness: Vanessa told Page Six that audiences will see how the illness impacted her work on the show
The Mexico City native said, ‘I was sick for too long and you’re going to see a little bit of struggle with Vanessa in work.’
Vanessa described some of the worrisome symptoms that she experienced which included brain inflammation.
She told OK! magazine: ‘Some people get affected in the lungs, some people by the stomach, or people like me — I got inflammation in the brain. I had a lot of hormonal imbalances and Vitamin D deficiencies which can sound quite easy, but it’s not that great either.’
Busy: Immediately after wrapping the fourth season, the cast including Jason and Brett Oppenheim, Chrishell Stause, Christine Quinn, Mary Fitzgerald, Heather Rae Young, Maya Vander, Davina Potratz, Amanza Smith began shooting season five
The Amores de Mercado star said that her doctors told her that her case may have been more severe because of her pre-existing Vitamin D deficiency.
Vanessa explained to Page Six that her brain inflammation can cause spells of dizziness and recalled one troubling on-set experience.
‘I went to film one day after I “recovered” and while I was speaking, I started feeling like I was going to pass out and I started feeling super dizzy,’ she said. ‘They had to send me in an Uber to my house.’
Grateful: On October 17, she shared an Instagram post in which she discussed her battle with COVID and thanked her doctors
Vanessa expressed her gratitude to the doctor provided to her by the Selling Sunset production team.
‘I’m incredibly grateful for him because he’s the reason we (Vanessa and her boyfriend) didn’t end up going to the hospital,’ she told OK!
‘I was starting to have an infection in the lungs and it was very close to becoming pneumonia, so that’s when you have to go to hospital, but he nailed the antibiotics on time.’
Dangerous: ‘I was starting to have an infection in the lungs and it was very close to becoming pneumonia, so that’s when you have to go to hospital, but he nailed the antibiotics on time’
On October 17, she shared an Instagram post in which she discussed her battle with COVID and thanked her doctors. Vanessa posted a photo in which she posed with Dr. Katherine Marie Zagone along with several images in which she was seen receiving oxygen and other treatments.
She wrote in the caption: ‘In August 5 I contracted Covid, and it stole 5 weeks of my life at the most important times as I was filming and doing my real estate.
‘Today almost 3 months after and I’m still dealing with getting my body to a 100% I’ve had insomnia, hormonal imbalance, severe lack of energy, brain inflammation etc… but everything started to get better when TWO ANGELS were put into my life @drzagone @brianpla from @genteramed helped me to go back to start living a normal life again, I’m still in treatments and WOW I cannot imagine how my life would be without your help, i have no words to describe my gratitude to you AND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE FOR ME!
In treatment: Vanessa posted a photo in which she posed with Dr. Katherine Marie Zagone along with several images in which she was seen receiving oxygen and other treatments
‘Thank you a million times for everything you’ve done and continue doing for me, I owe you my life.
‘If you’re suffering from long Covid or any health problem contact them, I promise you they will change your life, they have clinics in Miami, and in Los Angeles California and they will give you the BEST DOCTORS AND TREATMENTS for a speedy recovery ❤️’
Meanwhile, despite her absence from five weeks of filming, Vanessa told OK! that viewers can expect ‘more drama’ from the upcoming season and hinted that her boyfriend might make an appearance.
More to come: Meanwhile, despite her absence from five weeks of filming, Vanessa told OK! that viewers can expect ‘more drama’ from the upcoming season and hinted that her boyfriend might make an appearance
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