Next Gen NYC‘s Gia Giudice had a health emergency during BravoCon 2025 weekend in Las Vegas.
The eldest dorter of the OG of the Real Housewives of New Jersey took to her Casual Chaos podcast to detail why her team called 911 for help on Day 3 of BravoCon.
Gia’s symptoms:
“On Sunday, I had this really crazy thing that happened to me. It was really scary.”
“Throughout the entire weekend, I was probably running on two to three hours of sleep every night. I can’t remember the last time I actually had a day off. I’m young, this is the time to work and this is the time to really grind. Sunday morning, I woke up at 6:45. I got my makeup done. Then it was time to do my hair. I sat down in the makeup. I sat down in the hair chair, and I was like, wait one second.”
“I do not feel good. I stood up and I started kind of pacing back and forth. And then my hands started tingling. My feet started tingling. They started kind of going numb. I was like losing saliva in my mouth.”
“And then my chest felt like it was tightening. I couldn’t breathe and that I was going to pass out. I don’t even know if this was an anxiety attack or a panic attack. It was something that I’ve never experienced in my life before.”
Gia blacked out:
“I look over at [my boyfriend] Christian, my cousin who does my makeup, Lena, she does my hair. I literally looked over at them and I go ‘Call 911.’ Like, I feel like I’m having a heart attack. And they called 911. I was sitting on the ground because it was cold and my body was so hot.”
“They were putting like cold towels all over my body, all over my head and my body was like overheating that like they were literally, it was literally making the cold towels warm. And I just felt like I was going to pass out, have a heart attack, die. I didn’t know what was happening to me.”
“Immediately my hairdresser called my mom. She was staying at a different hotel. She’s rushing over, and I blacked out. Like, I didn’t pass out, but I was just, I was blacked out and like just super scared. Finally the ambulance came, which it felt like an hour, but it was honestly probably like 10 minutes. They came and they were like hooking me up to all these machines and all these to check my vitals and take a picture of my heart and to see my oxygen levels and everything.”
“And all of a sudden I look over and I see my uncle. Then I see a Bravo, like big boss Bravo, walking. And I was like, Oh my gosh, guys, like I’m so sorry. It was just the craziest thing. But they were hooking me up to everything. And my heart looked normal. My oxygen levels looked normal. My heart rate was obviously a little elevated because of what was happening. But my blood sugar was okay.”
The aftermath:
Gia continued, “So I ended up getting an IV, came back to my hotel room, and really just like fill me with everything that I need, nutrients and everything like that. But my body is still really weak. I slept the entire plane ride.”
“I think the panic attack like put my body into shock, and that made me even more exhausted, and I was just shaking. It was just very scary.”
“But after the IV and after the paramedics telling me everything was okay, and my mom and my uncle and everyone being there, and I was like, ‘Okay. I think I’m okay.’ I’m still going to go to work. But I did take a couple of things off the schedule just to let me rest a little bit. It was the scariest thing of my entire life.”
