Zsa Zsa Gabor in Critical Condition

By: Mary-Jayne McKay
Topics: News

Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1992.

(Credit: AP)

LOS ANGELES (CBS) Zsa Zsa Gabor's publicist says the 93-year-old actress is hospitalized in critical condition after surgery to replace her right hip.

John Blanchette says he spoke to Gabor's husband on Thursday and was told that the actress, who was partially paralyzed in a 2002 car accident and suffered a stroke in 2005, was not doing well in the wake of her successful weekend surgery.

Pictures: Zsa Zsa Gabor

However, Blanchette said Friday that he has not yet spoken to her doctor to confirm her condition. He says she was heavily sedated.

Gabor broke her hip on Saturday when she tumbled out of bed while watching television when she tried to answer a telephone at her Bel-Air home.

The only survivor of the trio of acting Gabor sisters, the much-married Zsa Zsa is currently wed to Prince Frederic von Anhalt, her ninth husband. She has one daughter, Francesca Hilton.

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by mh419 July 24, 2010 10:23 PM EDT: Ooops!'d better live the good life as I have only 3 months to live. Erasmus111, please get your facts straight. People can live many years after a hip repair or replacement.; Reply to this comment


by mh419 July 24, 2010 10:22 PM EDT: Ooops!'d better live the good life as I have only 3 months to live. Erasmus111, please get your facts straight. People can live many years after a hip repair or replacement.; Reply to this comment

by mari1963 July 24, 2010 9:35 PM EDT

who performs hip replacement or any kind of surgery on a 93 year old person? It's irresponsible! She should have never had the surgery in the first place.

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by mh419 July 24, 2010 10:28 PM EDT: Mari1963

So what do you propose. Let her be in horrible pain and then just let her die? You would consider that to be responsible action?


by skepticalJM July 24, 2010 3:46 AM EDT: Come on Zsa Zsa if you go there won't be anybody to fill your shoes! Hang in there old girl!; Reply to this comment


by whatisit21 July 23, 2010 11:59 PM EDT: 93. I was a boy in love with that untouchable woman.; Reply to this comment


by ddog88 July 23, 2010 7:30 PM EDT: She's 93, leave her alone vultures, the meal will come.; Reply to this comment

by VA_Jill July 23, 2010 6:35 PM EDT

She's 93, which makes her a poor surgical risk to begin with, and given her other problems, it doesn't look like a great outcome. Heavy sedation at her age is NOT a good thing.

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by joule18 July 23, 2010 8:22 PM EDT: The fact that she can have the needed surgery without having to o.k. it through the government is good. She would have been denied in a heartbeat because of her age alone.

by erasmus111 July 23, 2010 6:32 PM EDT

That's too bad.

Older people that break their hip don't usually last more than a year.

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by mh419 July 24, 2010 10:25 PM EDT: Ooops!I'd better live the good life as I have only 3 months to live. Erasmus111, please get your facts straight. People can live many years after a hip repair or replacement.