“It is very stressful to open yourself up,” says Lee, 55, who’s sharing the details of her five-month ordeal for the first time in this week's issue of PEOPLE, ahead of her show’s season premiere on A...

The upcoming season of Dr. Pimple Popper took a terrifying turn during production, and for once, it had nothing to do with a pus-filled cyst.

“What essentially happened,” she added, “is I had a part of my brain that died.”