Quinton Aaron, who starred with Sandra Bullock in the 2009 sports drama The Blind Side, was hospitalized after having a spinal stroke, his family has revealed.
News broke Sunday that Quinton Aaron, 41, was ‘on life support due to a severe blood infection,’ according to a GoFundMe set up to help cover his medical bills and his family’s expenses.
Aaron’s manager Katrina Fristoe said he was ‘receiving excellent medical care’ and was with family.
This Thursday the family issued their own statement, saying: ‘We acknowledge that you’ve heard about Quinton Aaron‘s condition. We appreciate the overwhelming love, support and prayers that Quinton has received over the past few days from his fans, the public, and our concerned community,’ via TMZ.
They specified that Aaron had suffered a ‘spinal stroke’ and noted the positive development that he was ‘alert, aware and recovering.’
The family noted they had ‘a lot to deal with for the betterment of their loved one, but will be sure to keep everyone posted regarding Quinton‘s health as we see fit.’
Aaron, who revealed his stunning 200lb weight loss last year, is best known for playing former NFL star Michael Oher in The Blind Side, whose high school and college football career was chronicled in Michael Lewis’s popular book of the same name.
Fans of Oher and the film about his remarkable success story were shocked in 2023, when he filed a lawsuit claiming that Leigh Ann and Sean Tuohy had not adopted him but had instead created a conservatorship that awarded their family millions from the success of The Blind Side film, even though Oher was allegedly paid nothing for the movie.
This past Sunday, a manager for Quinton Aaron told TMZ that the actor had been hospitalized in Atlanta, Georgia, for three days.
According to his manager, Aaron was rushed to the hospital after he had been taking the stairs up to his apartment and suddenly lost the ability to control his legs, causing him to fall down the stairs.
While Quinton Aaron was described in his GoFundMe as being on ‘life support,’ his manager claimed to TMZ that he was ‘stable’ and had been able to communicate with his family and professional team.
Crucially, the controversial term ‘stable’ can be used by medical professionals simply to indicate that a patient is not deteriorating further, and it does not necessarily imply that they are in good condition.
According to the manager on Sunday, Aaron’s doctors were still running tests, and they had not at that stage determined what led to his devastating fall.
Aaron’s manager added that his family was appreciative of the support he had received from fans.
Aaron latest medical emergency comes after he gave his fans a scare in March 2025, when he was rushed to a hospital after coughing up blood.
The actor was also suffering from a fever at the time, and though his eventual diagnosis wasn’t revealed, TMZ reported at the time that doctors posited Type A flu and pneumonia as possible culprits.
Aaron, who had to miss an event in Orange County, California, due to his medical emergency, told the publication that he was doing better and no longer coughing up blood after doctors administered antibiotics and IV fluids.
The Left Behind actor had also battled a serious upper respiratory infection in 2019.
In October, Aaron announced that he was feeling ‘overwhelmed and blessed’ after shedding an incredible 200 pounds.
The 6ft8in actor said he was down to 375 pounds, after once weighing in at 575 pounds in 2012.