Jennifer Grey is suffering from serious health problems. What became of her?

Jennifer Grey has several health issues. What happened to her?

Grey continued to dance years after Dirty Dancing was released. She even went on to win Dancing with the Stars in 2011. However, she was in “awful pain” at the end of the dance show and worried that she wouldn’t be able to finish it.

“On the morning of the finals, she called me in tears, distraught. She was in excruciating pain at the time,” she said about her experience with neck surgeon Dr. Robert Bray.

The  celebrity had suffered chronic pain since sustaining a neck injury in a major car accident in 1987.

But, after slipping a disc the night before, she was in excruciating pain right before her performance.

Grey also admitted that she had reservations about her dancing ability before the competition.

A slipped disc, also known as a herniated or ruptured disc, occurs when the tissue surrounding your spine presses against the nerves.

The extent of her issues, which included a troubling thyroid malignancy she had been dealing with for years, were only discovered around the time of the presentation.

“My doctor who examined my spine told me that not only should I not be in a car, you’re lucky you’re not paralyzed, your head is hanging off my spine, and this is why you’ve been in pain for 20 years,” she said. “I later discovered I had cancer, which had been present for four and a half years.”

Fortunately for the celebrity, steroid injections to alleviate the discomfort caused by the slipped disc enabled her to compete in the final.