Billy Porter: Dead for Three Days, Now a Miracle

has revealed he was 'dead for three days' amid his battle with , and considers it a miracle that he is even alive.

The winner of multiple went into detail about his health ordeal on Monday's episode of the Outlaws with TS Madison podcast.

Porter, 56, who was forced to quit his starring role as the Emcee in Broadway’s revival of Cabaret due to his medical woes last September, explained he went into hospital for what he thought would be a routine procedure to .

But doctors found a serious infection behind the stone that rapidly spread and became urosepsis.

'When they got in there, there was so much puss and bile and infection behind the stone. It bubbled up, and I went uroseptic in minutes,' remembered Porter, who recently praised for his kindness.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection that causes the immune system to harm healthy tissues and organs. Urosepsis is a type of sepsis that begins in the urinary tract and happens when a goes untreated and spreads to the kidneys.

Porter's condition was so severe that doctors hooked him up on an ECMO machine and placed him into a coma for several days.

According to the National Health Service (NHS), the machine 'will pump blood from a large vein through an artificial lung (the membrane) outside of your body,' so that the 'artificial lung adds oxygen to the blood and removes waste carbon dioxide.'

And 'blood is then returned' to an individual's body 'through another large vein' near the heart.