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Singer Michael Grimm, who won season 5 of “America’s Got Talent,” has been hospitalized and sedated following a mystery illness last week.
The blues musician is holed up in intensive care as of Wednesday morning, according to his wife Lucie Zolcerva-Grimm.
Taking to Instagram, the 44-year-old singer’s wife shared an update with fans about Grimm’s worrying condition.
In the clip shared with his 7,000 followers on the platform, Lucie said her husband was looking “sickly” and was behaving in a “fussy” way.
Lucie said Grimm, who hails from Mississippi, is finally breathing on his own again but “remains unconscious.”
She said that he will be forced to undergo vocal chord repair after having to rely on a ventilator, which has left him with “no voice.”
It’s not known what has caused Grimm’s health issues.
In the days leading up to being rushed to the hospital, Grimm — who proposed to Lucie during an appearance on “The Ellen Show” in 2010 — was unable to finish his recent live performances.
His wife said he eventually reached a point where he could “barely walk.”
“I rushed him to the ER because I thought something was wrong, like he was having a stroke or something. That wasn’t the case, luckily,” she explained. “Whatever was going on in his body from whatever, toxins I guess, they were going to his brain, he started talking gibberish.”
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Grimm has been bedridden for over a week now, and is awaiting to undergo physical therapy once he feels better.
“He is improving, so that is good. It’s just taking time,” Lucie added, saying that while he’s no longer relying on a ventilator, he is still sedated.
The crooner found fame after entering “AGT” in 2010, when he went ob win the entire competition with his blues music.
He defeated the show’s favorite, 10-year-old opera singer Jackie Evancho, in the final of the singing contest.
“I really thought Jackie had it in the bag,” he said after winning the staggering $1 million prize. “This is definitely an out-of-body experience. This whole journey has been, but especially now.”
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The then-30-year-old’s winning track was “When A Man Loves a Woman” which he dedicated to Lucie at the time.
He later competed in “America’s Got Talent: The Champions,” however, his stint in the competition was short-lived as he was voted out early on.
Prior to finding fame, Grimm performed at Las Vegas casinos for over a decade.
