Olympic Gymnast McKayla Maroney Reveals She Has Kidney Stones

McKayla Maroney, Olympic gold-winning gymnast, revealed she has kidney stones after being rushed to the emergency room following severe stomach pain earlier this week. Sharing updates, Maroney wrote Thursday on Instagram, "Just got my CT scan back. I have a few kidney stones."

The 25-year-old, in stories, elaborated, "Tuesday I was throwing up all day, with severe pain in my back and stomach. Had to come to ER at 3am because pain kept getting worse, and I couldn't stop throwing up." A photo shared alongwith shows her eyes closed with a pink mask down her chin.

Maroney was reportedly admitted at Benjamin and Carmella DU, California. In her latest post, the gymnast says she has been discharged from the ER. "They treated me wonderful but unfortunately nothing has changed, just on pain management," she wrote.

McKayla Maroney On #MeToo

McKayla Maroney was famously a member of the gymnastics team called the Fierce Five during the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she won both gold and silver. She has previously held the world title and became the first US female gymnast to defend a World Championship vault title in 2013. In 2016, she retired from competitive sports.

Maroney is back on social media after a two-year hiatus she undertook in 2019. On Twitter, she is vocal about getting justice for women speaking up against harassment and sexual abuse.

I really shouldn’t have to keep bringing up this dark part of my life, & making it so public, just to help push these organizations to bring justice to the hundreds of women they let down.

I want to heal from this, but change can’t happen without accountability.@USAGym @TeamUSA

— mckayla (@McKaylaMaroney) February 16, 2021

In 2017, McKayla Maroney had come forward with allegations against American gymnastics coach Larry Nassar, a serial rapist accused of sex abuse. Writing on Twitter, she said Nassar had raped her since she was a minor until her retirement from gymnastics in 2016. She later filed a lawsuit against Nassar and USA Gymnastics organisation.

Former USA Gymnastics national team doctor, Nassar was accused of assaulting over 200 girls throughout his career, details of which came prominently into the public light during the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal from 2015. In 2017 and 2018, he was convicted and received lifelong sentences for his crimes.

Earlier today we reported that John Geddert, former US Olympics women’s gymnastics head coach who had ties to Nassar, died by suicide on Thursday. He was supposed to turn himself in at the Eaton County Sheriff’s Department at 2:15 pm but was found dead hours after he was criminally charged with 24 offenses. Read more here.