Zsa Zsa Gabor — The Medical Blunder That Put Her Life At Risk

Botched surgery turned Hollywood legend Zsa Zsa Gabor’s final days into a desperate fight for life! After she was rushed to the hospital on Feb. 6, 2016, with a lung infection related to her feeding tube, doctors bungled a risky procedure that put her at death’s door, The National ENQUIRER has learned.

“They put in the wrong size feeding tube! My poor wife!” wailed her ninth husband, Prince Frédéric von Anhalt, to The ENQUIRER. The former Tinseltown glamour queen had just turned 99 years old before being hospitalized two days later.

Doctors at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center replaced her feeding tube on Feb. 10. She survived the surgery, but faced going under anesthesia a second time, explained her husband. When confronted with Prince Frédéric’s charges of malpractice, a public information officer for the hospital had no comment.

Hungarian-born Zsa Zsa, who was hidden away from the public for years before her death on Nov. 18, 2016, suffered from dementia. Her body had been ravaged by infections, and her right leg was amputated in 2011. .

As she clung to life throughout 2016, her distraught husband kept a vigil at her hospital bedside. Prince Frédéric, 72,her ninth husband, Prince Frédéric von Anhalt, 72, told The ENQUIRER: “I see my wife fighting, her eyes filling with tears. It makes me very, very angry!”