‘Selling Sunset’ Star Amanza Smith Opens Up About Surviving A Life-Threatening Bone Infection She Addressed ‘Two Days’ Before Potentially Dying

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“Selling Sunset” star, Amanza Smith, is opening up about a recent health scare. What Smith thought was just lower back pain, ended up being something much more alarming.

In a new interview with People, the interior designer, 46, shared her story after undergoing two invasive spinal surgeries this summer, explaining how osteomyelitis — a potentially rare and life-threatening bone infection — was affecting her lower vertebrae.

In May, Smith experienced a severe backache that lasted almost a full month, causing her to collapse one evening at her Los Angeles home.

Five days later, she agreed to let a close friend take her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. After doing an MRI, doctors discovered that Smith had a dangerously advanced case of vertebral osteomyelitis — a vertebral infection that is fatal for two out of 10 patients. READ MORE: Amanza Smith Reveals She’s Cancer-Free After ‘Selling Sunset’ Health Scare “One or two more days at home and you could have been dead,” she recalled her doctor’s words to her. “I thought I had a backache, and I almost died,” the reality star told People. “The doctors and my friend saved my life.” Upon Smith’s hospital admission on June 2, doctors put her on IV antibiotics before undergoing a lower spine surgery to “clear the infection from the bones,” she explained.