Toni Braxton says she misinterpreted her chest pain thinking it was from the sadness she felt after losing her sister. 💔
Braxton said the doctors informed her that the issue was affecting the main artery in her heart, which would have resulted in a widowmaker heart attack. "Even sometimes when I talk about it, I get a little emotional about it," she said while getting choked up."Because I feel so fortunate and so blessed. And I was not going to go to that appointment. You put things off, 'I'll do it tomorrow. Everything's OK. I'm sure I'm fine.
"Having SLE, so it can attack any organ in my body," she revealed."Now it's starting to affect my kidneys." Braxton said that she's been living with the chronic illness for over a decade, and while some days can be bad, she manages to get through them. But lupus isn't slowing Braxton down completely. Kotb and Hager asked about a recent Instagram post, in which the"Hurt You" singer looking especially sexy. "I was feeling good about myself," Braxton said about the pic posted over the weekend."Surviving lupus and I wanted people to know that just because you have lupus or lupus nephritis or your kidneys are not doing good, you can still be cute, you can take a cute picture and feel OK.
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