Paul Heyman Recounts Dealing With Kidney Stones & His Urinary Tract Being Cut; Heyman Checked Himself Out Of Hospital & Went To WWE Raw

The story behind Paul Heyman’s post-WrestleMania tan.

There was a 2025 episode of WWE Monday Night Raw that saw Paul Heyman with a tan and an image of that began to circulate on social media.

He shared with Chris Van Vliet that he had been hospitalized. He was dealing with kidney stones, and his urinary tract was cut. Heyman checked himself into a hospital, checked himself out, and then headed to Raw. He checked himself back in after his on-screen time was done.

Heyman stated that he had a catheter and a PIC line. He described it as the most miserable experience of his life.

“I was competing with Bron Breakker as to who could look more ridiculous with the self-tanner that we were applying. Actually, the time that I did that, I needed it because I looked God-awful at the time. Here’s something I’ve never revealed publicly and it just goes back to how you approach this industry or performing in and of itself. I know the exact episode that you’re talking about because it’s a meme now where I crashed out when I was talking to Jey Uso, because Jey Uso said I screwed over the Tribal Chief and it’s like, ‘No, it’s always my fault. It’s always me, me, me, but not this time. I’m not the one, I’m not the betrayer, I’m not the double crosser…’ That crash out was very real to me, because at the time, I always get sick right after WrestleMania because I wear myself so down going into WrestleMania so I always get sick. I always end up with a sinus infection or bronchitis or something — inner ear infection. Something goes wrong with me the week or two after WrestleMania every single year. At that particular moment, I got a kidney stone or several kidney stones and in passing the kidney stone, it was so sharp it cut my urinary tract and besides cutting my urinary tract, it left my urinary tract in a position to where I could catch an infection and man, the last place you want an infection like that is in the urinary tract, because it’s tough to get rid of. So now the urinary tract inflames, presses up against the prostate, irritates the prostate, the infection now starts to spread and now the infection is in the urinary tract and in the prostate and it’s spreading through my system. I end up in the hospital. Shout out to White Plains Hospital because, wow, they took wonderful care of me. I end up in the hospital and all I’m asking is, ‘I have to be out of here by Sunday night because I have to be on the jet on Monday to go to Raw.’ They’re looking at me, saying, ‘You have a very serious infection.’ I mean, they’re bringing in people from infectious diseases because I’m allergic to penicillin, number one, and number two, any antibiotics that they’re giving me, none of them are working. Infection is getting worse. My temperature is rising and the effects of the infection are taking hold, but I won’t miss work. So I checked myself out that Monday morning. I chartered a jet on my own to Raw, did Raw, flew on the WWE jet back to White Plains, checked myself back into the hospital, didn’t tell anybody. Meanwhile, when I did that scene, and for a couple weeks afterwards, when I would jet myself to Raw, take the jet back home, check myself back into the hospital. When I did that scene, I had a catheter and a PIC line. Next to trying to book the rebirth of ECW in 2006, perhaps the most miserable experience of my life. But there was work to be done and I wasn’t going to miss work, especially because we had just launched The Vision and to miss television, then would be abdicating my responsibility to that story.”

The current version of The Vision includes Bron Breakker, Austin Theory, and Logan Paul. Breakker and Theory lost the WWE World Tag Team Titles to The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) on the June 22nd Raw.