Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has said he is reading through the entire Bible after a period in of ill health prompted a search for deeper spiritual meaning.
Hilton revealed he spent 21 days in hospital with sepsis and was later urgently readmitted with deep vein thrombosis, describing the latter stay in hospital as "divine intervention".
“God presented Himself to me in the hospital,” Hilton said. “And then healed me, [He] did something that I can only describe as a miracle. I had been calling out to God for years, opening my heart and inviting Him and now I no longer need to have faith, I no longer need to hope to believe; I know that God is real and that God loves me.”
Hilton, whose real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., said he had been “so inspired” by scripture and was “at times shocked and overwhelmed in beautiful and wondrous ways".
“God destroyed me more than once, to build me back up stronger and better than before,” he added.
Once known for celebrity gossip, Hilton now appears to be shifting toward sharing Biblical reflections with his one million Instagram followers.
“If you don’t like this content, you can just not watch it," he said in a recent video.
