Toni Braxton underwent ‘traumatic’ heart procedure after lupus complication

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Toni Braxton underwent a “traumatic” heart procedure after suffering a complication from lupus.

The “Un-Break My Heart” singer admitted she “kept putting” off her routine blood and urine tests only to find out last September that she had some “abnormalities.”

“I found out that I needed a coronary stent. My left main coronary artery was 80 percent blocked,” Braxton explained to People.

“The doctors told me I could’ve had a massive heart attack, I would not have survived.”

Braxton, 55, said the results left her in “shock.”

“I remember that day because my chest was aching often, just hurting. And I thought I was just sad because unfortunately my sister [Traci Braxton] had just passed and I thought, ‘Wow, I’m really aching in my heart for my sister,’” she recalled.

“And come to find out, of course I was sad about my sister, but I also had underlying health issues. It was my body talking to me, telling me something’s not quite right.”

Two days after hearing the news, Toni underwent surgery to place stent — a tube that opens passageways — in her heart. She remained there for a couple of nights to recover.

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“I look at it like it was a blessing in disguise for me because now, putting off tests? Oh no, I will not put off tests,” the “He Wasn’t Man Enough” performer said with a laugh.

“If all I have to do for my lupus and my kidney health is pee in a cup, I can pee in a cup,” she added.

“How many times do you need me to pee? If all I gotta do is get my arm pricked for some blood? Oh yes, I can do that. How many vials do you need?”

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